Of Course You Can Watch Football

Bill,

Have you noticed just how much the New York Times is channeling us with its dueling columnist conversations?

Of course you can just watch football! That's not the time or place to worry about the social ills,  so don't. But why do I get the sense that you are asking yourself that question as much as you are asking me?

Everything in America does not boil down to race or gender. You and are not culture warriors. We get up in the morning put on our clothes, go to work, come home to our families, live our lives, and try to do the right thing as we see it. But we are engaged citizens, with a sense of responsibility toward our country, which has given both of us so much. Otherwise we wouldn't write this blog. We see a lot of things differently, but we don't look away (at least when not watching football).   

The country has made real progress toward accepting its African American citizens as equal members of society; so says the nation’s first African American President. But discrimination on the basis of race has not been erased from the American landscape. That's a belief shared by a majority of Americans (although not by most Republicans).

 We can't erase prejudice from person’s heart. Only they can do that for themselves. But we can honor, in ways large and small, the words engraved on the front of the Supreme Court.

Eli