Telegram - Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944

f you can't remember a time when overt racism was at this level in America during your lifetime, that's because the majority of Americans alive today have never lived through an America this bad. For some, a state of near comatose denial is preferable to the horror show that is reality, because the reality of America today is too much to bear. For many, denial is the best way to cope.

We are witnessing a remainder of the days before and after the Civil War. It is not simply the last gasp of democracy; it is the death rattle of the American conscience. Our fate is not yet sealed, but it is i...