It's time for bigotry to come to an end

Has the death knell for white supremacists and racist bigots begun to toll?

Has the election of a racially mixed president, Barack Obama, and two Pulitzer Prize winners, Cynthia Tucker and Eugene Robinson, black journalists for the Atlanta Constitution and The Washington Post, convinced any of them that their divisively virulent arguments are no longer valid, even to the most ignorant of people?

Or will they continue to hold on to their malevolent convictions in spite of overwhelming evidence that all men and races are truly equal? No, the tolling of the bell began 400 years ago when John Donne, in his meditations, wrote that no man (or race) is an island, that we are all interconnected in our humanity. But there are still the few who cannot or will not hear its sound.

James D. Cook

Streamwood