[Gaffer]

I miss the America that didn’t have a President who wanted to destroy it. I miss the America where the Department of Justice prosecuted criminality instead of facilitating racist, liberal, America-hating dogma. I miss the America that had actual families that valued motherhood and fatherhood as good things, not something to browbeat others over the head with and to create children just to get more entitlements. I miss the America whose parents didn’t use pre-K schools as caretakers for their children. I miss the America where someone on food stamps actually tried to find a job to get off them. It goes on and on and on and on, not one iota of it has to do with white or black.

[Nea Wood]

It has everything to do with black or white. The races are not interchangeable. Race matters.

[vette6387]

Gaffer, I miss all of what you've outlined. That said, I truly miss growing up in the non-black Northern California bedroom community where I did. We just had our 58th High School Class Reunion. When we asked our fellow classmates what their fondest memories were about their days in HS, EVERYONE said being able to grow up in the community we did. I live less than ten miles from my high school, but now, as nice as it is, the community where it is located, is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the place it was in 1958. They say “you can never go back!” Sadly, that's true. What has occurred in those 58 years since graduation cannot be called progress, despite all the technological advances we've made.