Have we really changed?

50 years ago tomorrow 4 young college students in Greensboro walked down the street to a coffee shop and tried to order food. Nothing strange about that, except that these 4 men were black and they were sitting in the all white area. This action was at the beginning of a revolution in America that involved brave people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.; people who knew that things had to change and they were willing to put their lives at risk to bring that change. But what were they fighting for? If they knew for sure that they would never see this change for themselves would they have still done what they did? I think they would have; they weren't doing it for themselves, to make their own lives easier but to make the lives of people after them better. To teach people to look at the heart of a person and not their skin color. I agree with this totally and I am not out to argue against this. But I think America has gone to the other extreme. Now we aren't trying to keep different people out, we are trying to bring different people in. Is this bad? No. Is how we are doing it bad? In many ways I would say yes. We are so anxious to look multi-racial that we will do anything in our churches, businesses, and government to make everyone happy. And America beamed with pride when our first African American president was elected. Am I against this? Having a black president No. I guess this is a good thing, it looks like we are moving forward. But I don't think that this is really what these people were going for when they sat in restaurants and buses where they weren't supposed to, or when Martin Luther gave his "I have a dream" speech. their goal wasn't that we would one day have a black president and then an oriental president. I think their goal was that we wouldn't even notice when we did! What if we really did spend more time looking at the heart and soul of a person rather than their skin color? what if we looked at how they lived instead of where they lived? Has America changed? yes. Has America changed for the better? that's debatable.