Today is a day like no other before it.
We are starting a new era of hope, reconciliation, and nation-building. I can work anywhere in the country I want. I am free. Racism F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, Great Gatsby , includes discussion among wealthy Euro-American characters discussing a racist book that suggested that the white race would be utterly submerged and that was scientifically proven. A boiler into which 13 million blacks are clubbed and penned in by two and a half million whites.