once have been assigned to the sectarial pool if nothing's changed. ask your gay friend if it's easier to be out and proud in america now than it was 30 years ago. to deny this progress, this hard won progress, our progress would be to rob us of our own agency, our own capacity. our responsibility. to do what we can to make america better. of course, the more common mistake is to suggest that ferguson is an isolated incident. that racism is banished. that the work that drew men and women to selma is now complete and that whatever racial tengs remain is a consequence of those seeking to play the race card for their own purposes. we don't need a ferguson report to know that's not true. we just need to open our eyes