Our Raison D’être
This particular edition hits on the complex and often painful issue of race. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois said almost 100 years ago upon the publication of The Souls of Black Folk, “for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” And it looks like the same will be true of the 21st century.
Many people believe that issues of race and racism are relics of the past. But if there’s any doubt that such issues remain on the table, one should remember that we closed out 2002 with Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott’s resignation from his Senate majority leader post, following his comments, which insinuated that this country might have been better off if former Sen. Strom Thurmond, who ran on a segregationist platform, had been elected president of the United States.
