"Since the Docking of the Mayflower"

Abraham Lincoln once said, “If destruction be our lot we must first be its author.” There is a moment in our lives when we make a decision to stand up and be accounted for, and in the process we take a stand for what we believe to be decent and fair. It has always been within us to decide right from wrong--and racism is wrong

Racism can be eliminated in America for the most part, but it will take more than words. It will take common sense and action to terminate this virus that has been ingrained in the nation since the docking of the Mayflower.

I have and will always be an idealist. I believe in achieving the impossibility, but I'm not a fool. Of course there will always be pockets of racism in America by those who find comfort thinking they and their ethnicity is superior to others. I get it. But I also believe that we have the ingenuity to make racism so ineffective and insignificant that it would be relegated to the back pages of America's history that has yet to be written.

We can make racism a non-factor, but to do so, we must be willing to part ways within our comfort zone, meaning our indoctrinated belief system.


Anthony Johnson