I've waited awhile to say my piece on the departed so here goes

[KentuckyWoman]

6. Don't count on his children being better.

We hope. We try. We have worked toward ridding our society of this all my life and then some. Before MAGA I genuinely thought we'd made some headway. Not a lot, but some. Now here we are allowing the racist hate toddler tantrum over Obama to rip us apart.

You'd be stunned at how many people I thought were good Democrats who bought into the whole birther shit. They would vote for Hillary Clinton but "oh me oh my (hand wringing) we just can't have a muslin* terrorist loving (probably rapist) black man who isn't even really Amurikan judging by his weird name". It hurt to have to try to talk to people who stood with me up against racist all those years. It hurt to cut them loose. Some of them went and voted for Trump to keep the skeery brown people "where they belong".

Of course I knew racist was alive and well in America. Obviously the work goes on the cause endures as dear Ted Kennedy said. Perhaps I just wanted to believe we were making some progress and we never were. I leave it to those on the receiving end to judge whether or not even one iota of progress has been made. For me, I am nearer the end of life and mightily heartbroken to see all of this. The children may be worse than the parents... only time will tell.