Are race relations better or worse today?
I don’t know how we are going to get along in this country unless we are willing to conceive that there are things that ought to be done to right some of the wrongs that have been done over the years, over the centuries. And to give people an opportunity without calling them unfair, or [say they are] being singled out for special consideration simply because they happen to be of a certain color. I ask no quarter ever except to be given the opportunity, which my state didn’t give me. I think we ought to come to grips with things like that. Now, to be sure, blacks have opportunities that they have never had before. And for that I’m deeply grateful. At the same time, I don’t believe there are more blacks in jail than there are in college simply because blacks are more criminal. I think something else is at work here, including [the lack of] economic opportunity. Including discrimination that continues in education. Including the imbalance in the preparation of kids from one neighborhood t
