Let's Talk About It With Myeka: Generations Removed From Segregation

Generations Removed From Segregation: What Have We Learned? What do we still need to learn? There are no more "White Only" signs, no arrows pointing to the back doors of restaurants saying "Colored Entrance", no dirty, rusty water fountains marked "Colored" while the clean, shiny ones say "White Only", no more legalized segregation. And yet, we still behave as if there are barriers in our society, there are fears that we will be publicly humiliated when going to establishments in predominately white neighborhoods, such as what happened to the two gentlemen in the Philadelphia Starbucks. There are videos posted on YouTube daily of police arrests and beatings of black men and women, which provoke a sense of helpless outrage. The signs have gone, but the mentality seems to still persist.  Without forced segregation, have African Americans learned to create and operate businesses, schools and hospitals where we live? Have whites learned to function in a multi racial, multi ethnic society without a false sense of entitlement and power over others? Have we learned how to coexist without fear of each other? Let's Talk About It with Myeka.