The necessity of confronting racism & revisionism

With the horror of the white supremacist terrorist attack in Charleston, South Carolina still fresh in our national consciousness, one small solace has been the recent SCOTUS ruling siding with Texas against the Sons of Confederate Veterans over respecting the state's decision to disallow a specialty license plate from the group incorporating the Confederate Battle Flag.  It was the right call, and even Clarence Thomas was on the side of the angels this time and for that I am grateful.

I was born in Atlanta, Georgia to an unwed college sophomore from South Carolina who gave me up for adoption to a pair of transplanted Missourians I today call "Mom & Dad".  We moved around a lot in those years, but my childhood memories only go back as far as Kindergarten in Columbia, SC where one of our class activities for the Bicentennial in 1976 was to look at pictures of Mr. Carter and Mr. Ford and decide who we thought should be president.  I can recall picking the sitting President, Mr. Ford, because I thought he looked more "Presidential" somehow.  We moved to Houston, Texas when I reached 3rd grade.