[Lady of Pearl]

I'm glad that some find the concept of what Marcus Garvey tried to accomplish with the Back to Africa movement laughable. That shows the extent of their experience regarding Black History- Marcus Garvey was trying to put forth the argument that Blacks will never achieve parity and equality with whites-be it in education, income or politics. So he chose to become a separatist in his beliefs from this country. I am an African American and choose to identify myself as such. Racism is very much alive and thriving in this country. Platitudes and sarcastic remarks are only a disguise of some of the true feelings that individuals have on this board to deny the experience of racism -and what happened to those fraternity members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. We should never be too comfortable with a situation like that and should denounce such racist actions. We have a long way to go in this country in terms of race relations. Most of our public schools are still segregated here in 2006. If we are segregated -and others continue to put forth racist ideas- how can we ever seek to respect and institute tolerance for different individuals!