A more understanding commentator means white people are shedding their historical legacy of racist behavior. Indeed, Rather was a better commentator than David Duke would have been, but there is certainly someone more progressive than Rather, one that could have better related the events of the March. Time, after all, should carry us away from ignorance and forward in matters of race, just like we, white people, have always believed it has. If there is another March five years from now we should be better prepared to tell its story than we were in 1995. Ten years, even better prepared.
Time rolls on, and our minds are supposed to keep rolling with it.
Such, then, becomes our white role in matters of race. We listen to what other white people have said about race in the past, about what whites like Rather still say, and we try to move beyond their ignorance. Perhaps the next generation of white people will be even more educated, less ignorant about blackness than we were. They will read what we have said and written about the Million Man March and they will laugh at how ludicrous we were. But maybe no one does make it to the finish line.