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 h
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 thousand of as a perversion of one of the most necessary instincts of 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 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 amazement as he told me this. it never occurred to me, he said, never occurred to anybody i knew that he couldn t play for the other yankees, my dad said. we