I have recently started watching shows on the History channel. I love history on just about any subject. Last night I saw part of a show on the history of the Ku Klux Klan. I was amazed and saddened at how our country saw african americans as soon as 40-50 years ago. The thought that someone saw anybody of color as a lesser person or someone who it was no crime to kill for no reason. I was amazed at how even if people were put on trial for murder of a black person that a jury could and most of the time did find them not guilty because they too also had the same view of that person, that is was of no great loss that they were dead.

I then saw the evening news and the talk of the presidental election and the list of candiates who are running and realized what a time of change we are in now and have experienced in the last few years that a person of color can now be running and may even win the office of the President of the biggest in the free world and greatest nation on earth.