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U.S. INSTITUTIONS ARE NOT COLORBLIND WHEN DEALING WITH JUSTICE FOR BLACKS.(Editorial)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19970225
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The poetry of the great Irish bard William Butler Yeats has been heavy on my mind lately. ``Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer,'' he wrote in his famous poem ``The Second Coming.''

For a long time moral prophets have been exhorting Americans to deal seriously with the legacy of white supremacy and racial polarization, but it seems ``the falcon cannot hear the falconer.''

Of course progress has been made. However, let's remember what Dr. Martin Luther King wrote a few months before he died, fully aware of the accomplishments of ...

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