Free Republic

Columnist and playwright Jim Grimsley penned an editorial last week in the Los Angeles Times that accused white people--all white people--of being racist. Grimsley, who is white and grew up in Georgia at the tail-end of the Jim Crow era, railed against the cluelessness of white America on the issue of race. Even white people who consider themselves enlightened on racial issues, he argues, are often unaware of the racism that lurks within their own hearts. "...I have found that black people are all too aware that progress on racial issues has hardly moved forward at all, while white people...