last night kathleen and i saw to kill a mockingbird up in new york. what struck me about a black man in alabama being railroaded on a trumped up case is the power of race, the power that lets otherwise people adjust the worst imaginable behavior to someone they both fear and condemn on the basis of his color. it s the electric chair or the rope for the black man for breaking the rules of jim crow. here we are in the 21st century almost 100 years after harper lee s story took place and the issue of color rears its head again, this time focused on the people coming from our southern border. it s the color of those people whose fore bearers were native to this continent. yes, there were other issues, but the angry behind this call for a wall is so blatantly about color that both sides can feel it in their bones. so we push on. but on this martin luther king day, we should take this moment to admit, all of us, that the