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Have you ever seen the segment on late night TV where they go around and quiz Americans on random American history? It always serves to make Americans look stupid. We don't keep up with the news or what's happened in the past. We don't remember the placement of all fifty states, unless they are well known. We ignore a lot of our history and a lot of it has been left out of our history books -- but that's for another time. 

The point is that we don't pay enough attention to the things that happen around us and how we have or have not evolved as a country since then. We memorize dates and names and leave them on our test papers without a second thought. And because we don't pay attention to our history, we let it repeat itself.

Racism is more terrifying now than it was in the time of the Civil Rights Movement. And, to be honest, you can call it history all you want but the confederate flag is a symbol of racism. It shows just how backwards we were at the time and it shows that we are holding on to what were some pretty hard feelings. Now you may not care a bit, but I think it's definitely time that our nation retires all confederate flags. If we want to move forward, we have to acknowledge and remove the things that hold us back.

catch you later,

Karleigh

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” // Toni Morrison