jim wrote, "Here's hoping that we never, ever go the way of segregation again and properly focus on equal opportunity every day of the new millennium." and i am gathering courage to make a (rare!) entry into this political fray on the list, to add: yesterday i thought about king, read about him, and listened to his words on the radio. and i shuddered at the thought of our actually being able to nominate or approve someone like ashcroft to the position of attorney general -- someone who has been proven a SPECIFIC opponent to anti-segregation causes. where are we going with this? we ALL have more reason every day in this new year to fight HARDER to keep dr. king's dream alive...this is a fight that is far from over. --emily, remembering the NYTIMES editorial about bush's "win" in the election, which pointed out that civil rights could be set back dozens of years because of him. i didn't know what was meant by this at the time, but reading about ashcroft, i think i do now...
