Time to act now

Editor,

You only need turn on your TV News to understand that America stands poised on the brink of a violent explosive period in race relations. We are experiencing that the problem of race relations in the United States cuts to the very core of our definition as a people. America, although founded on the ideals of individual liberty and personal dignity, we cannot bring ourselves—through either law or social practice—to treat the descendants of slaves as equal to whites.

The dilemma that this attitude has always posed for us in American was that these racial attitudes have become so deeply i...