Self-Glory Road

Forty-one years ago today the first-ever college basketball team with an all-black starting five won the NCAA championship. It's interesting to sit here cast in the light of modern sentiment and scold those who were so obviously racist at the time. Then again, it could be considered the height of pride to assume any of us would not have been drawn into that way of thinking. After all, how many people sat idly by in Europe in the years leading up to the Holocaust? How many now are sitting by as genocide rolls on in Africa or elsewhere? How many sit in their air conditioned cars on the way to their well-decorated homes as they pass people living in squalor? It's easy to use a historical lens to see things clearly, I suppose, but what are you looking at right now?