[Corkey]

My father fought in WW2, he did so because he knew of the certain fact that if he didn't, and men and women like him didn't fight we would all be under the heavy boot of the Nazis. There were only radios and movie theaters back then, and word of news went round the country and people were informed. In many ways they were better informed because of a little thing called community. They all knew each other, they knew their neighbors in the next town. They could inform and debate each other face to face, prove the truth of their convictions without fighting each other. My father instilled in me a since of doing the right thing, even if it made my life harder. The right thing is often hard, but it is easier than doing nothing at all to help your neighbor. My father was a bigot in many ways, my father was a hero in some, my father learned from his mistakes, he finally gave up being a bigot when his offspring proved the righteousness of his convictions.
Ignorance of others and how others live is no excuse to be a bigot. We in this country have no excuse to judge others based solely on their skin color. We also have no excuse not to be informed.