Tuesday, July 3, 2007

The White Housewife and the Black Priest

One night in the 70s I sat in on a seminar dealing with the turbulent times we were having in our big southern city. A prestigious African American scholar told us that what we needed was open dialogue between blacks and whites.

I thought (sarcastically), "Yeah, if the riots would stop long enough."

A year later a brilliant young black Episcopal priest and a white mother of four were facilitating racism seminars across the south.

Ah, those were the days!