measurable and good but i think discrimination has been tamed perhaps, not eradicated. for our society still emphasizes our differences as much as our similarities. we may be 63 years from jackie robinson but not yet 63 days from a man going on national radio and telling us the president of the united states was elected only because of the color of his skin. discrimination i've always thought of as a perversion 6 some of the most necessary instincts as survival. as a child put your hand on a hot stove and you learn to discriminate against red hot stoves but at that age you're told you need to beware of say black people you will spend your life having to fight against wiring created in your brain for no reason other than to reflect someone else's prejudice. and it need not even be that related to trauma. the other night in the hospital my father was o telling me about seeing satchel paige pitch at yankees stadium in 1941 and the team was the new york black yankees. my father shook his head in