<p>Melissa Harris-Perry’s take on the situation is stunning:</p>
<p>on.msnbc.com/1yAz1Nn</p>
<p>She’s a professor and it shows in her ability to weave together past and present. Although she is talking about black people, her expression of the anguish black parents feel as the better world they thought their children would inhabit fails to appear resonates with me. For one thing, I feel depressed about the world that that my white children will inhabit. In addition, I often think about how when I was young, a million years ago, I thought the major race issues had been pretty much solved. If I’d known then what the world would look like in my 60’s, I wouldn’t have been able to bear it. </p>