FROM: Terry Lynch@aol.com; POB 241035; Montgomery, AL 36124-1035 
Phone: (334) 272-4217 voice  (334) 277-3582 fax via arrangement

DATE:  July 12, 1998 

TO:  Letter to the Editor      

SUBJECT:  Camille Cosby Correct About Racism

Comille Cosby, Bill Cosby's wife, is correct, racism is alive and well
in America.  Ever since former governor George C. Wallace utter 
those ominous words, "Segregation today! Segregation tomorrow!  
Segregation forever!," racism has been promised to America.

Until all institutions take action to end social segregation our 
society will be plagued by racism.  Schools and churches are the 
foundation of all learning and morality in America.  Until all 
schools and churches are socially integrated there will be racism 
is America.

Private church schools which blossomed with Wallace's declaration 
of segregation forever are the root of the racism problem in 
America.  Until we stop building, funding and sending our 
children to private church schools which teach separation of the 
races, the inferiority of women and other bigoted ideas, there 
will be racism in America.

You can not change people's hearts by passing laws.  So the 
legislation of morality is not the solution.  The only way to 
forever end "segregation forever" and racism in America is for 
both political and religious leaders to call upon all Americans 
to love each other and stop the hatred which divides and 
separates neighbor from neighbor, black from white, red from 
yellow and heart from heart.

We can make America a racist free society.  But it can only be 
done if each and everyone of us open our hearts, love our fellow 
man and stop creating and supporting socially segregated 
institutions.  That means no more Wallace of the 60's type 
segregationists.  It also means no more governors like Fob James 
who think the Bill of Rights does not apply to Alabama.

But I don't think Alabama or America is ready for that yet, 
because as Camille Cosby said, in America God is perceived as 
white and if your skin color happens to be black, you are 
perceived as a, "harmful, hostile, disgraceful, unpleasant aspect 
of life."

Sincerely, Terry 
Lynch Montgomery, AL