Dear Stevie:
We’ve never met, but like untold millions of people around the world, I’m a huge fan. I can still remember flipping through my father’s vinyl albums as a boy and stumbling across “Songs in the Key of Life.” Your music continues to bring tremendous joy to people in all walks of life. So thank you.
But I have a bone to pick. Earlier this week you wrote an open letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., published on the holiday that now bears his name, in which you said:
“It is painful to know that needle has not moved one iota. For 36 years, we’ve had a national holiday honoring your birthday and principles; yet you would not believe the lack of progress. It makes me physically sick.”
OK, OK, we get the point.
But there s a small problem. Somehow, on their way to launching a neo-fascist takeover of the United States, the white supremacists ran out of whites. Simply looking at video of the Capitol riot, or looking at the FBI s wanted images afterwards, makes it obvious that the mob of Trump die-hards were multiracial. The two most famous members of the Proud Boys, America s premier white nationalist group, are an Afro-Cuban and a Samoan. Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander as black and Arab. And of course, there are November s famous exit polls, which showed that Joe Biden was carried to the White House by improving on Hillary Clinton s support with white voters, while faltering with Hispanics and blacks.
Wyoming Ranks 1st in U.S. Racial Progress, Report Says
With Martin Luther King Jr. Day less than a week away and 49 percent of Americans saying the U.S. hasn’t done enough to give black people equal rights to white people, WalletHub on Tuesday released its report on 2021 s States with the Most Racial Progress.
To recognize the racial harmony America has achieved, WalletHub measured the gaps between black people and white people across 21 key indicators of equality and integration in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Overall, Wyoming ranked first in racial progress levels achieved over time and sixth in current racial integration levels.