May 31, 2018, 12:05 am
Lecturing on Roseanne’s racism — with Al Sharpton.
May 29th would have been President John F. Kennedy’s 101st birthday. It is a moment worth recalling in the middle of the Roseanne episode.
In June of 1963, JFK took to America’s television screens in the middle of racial turmoil surrounding the admittance of two young Americans to the University of Alabama. He began this way:
This afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama. That order called for the admission of two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negro.From there the President went into a candid discussion of race in America. It was an absolutely inspiring speech if, as I was at the time, one was old enough to understand it. It inspires still today. Out of that speech came this one JFK line that should serve as eternal wisdom for Americans:
“…race has no place in American life or law.â€
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