I grew up with racism, and I still see it a lot. Some people are too sensitive, and pull the race card out like it's the end of the discussion. But some of it is quite real, and it's ugly. I lost an uncle in the Watts riots of 1964. Beaten to death after being dragged from his truck that he delivered drinking water in. He went to work that morning because "people still need their water". His crime was being a Mexican in a black neighborhood that day.
The newspaper wrote an insensitive headline, but for the time it wasn't considered bad. We can learn from history and the mistakes made, or we can be doomed to repeat them. It's a simple choice. But no matter how hard the history books try, we can't change the past. We can look back and learn from the those before us. Woodrow Wilson was an mean and angry racist, yet the schools teach kids that he was a great man, a pacifist even. Malcolm X was a racist and called for militant action against white people in his early days. Should we wipe these men from the history books because it's embarrassing? On the contrary, we should study them and the times that they came from to better understand how to move forward as a society, rather than reopen past wounds and dig up old hurts.
For the time period, it's not hard to believe at all. We've learned from that thankfully, and now newspapers don't print headlines like that anymore.
