Let's Make Equality the Goal in All Areas of Our Life Together

The best thing to happen for high school sports in my lifetime has been the 1954 SCOTUS decision in Brown vs. Board of Education that outlawed racial discrimination in our public schools; consequently, Black schools were closed, and a new era of greater success was born for sports in the USA.

But sadly, discrimination has not ceased.  Blacks and other minorities continue to be the victims of injustice in the USA, like not having equal access to our best colleges or to the opportunities in the business and professional worlds that have been white dominated since the birth of our nation.

We don’t need to be made “great” again; we need to be just and practice equality here and now, in all arenas.

Still, we go to our games on Friday nights, then on Sundays, those of us who do, attend worship where real openness to Blacks and other minorities is noticeably not present.

How can we help end the continuing racism?  In addition to being open and friendly to others of a different race, we can hug them and invite them into our homes.

In addition, and very significantly, we can vote and support candidates who make no bones whatsoever about their desires for equality in “all” areas of our living, including in our courtrooms.

The three high schools in Refugio County (Texas) could all have the mascot nickname of Copano, after their main outlet to the Gulf, Copano Bay, itself named after the Karankawa tribe that inhabited the rea prior to the arrival of the Europeans who came seeking prosperity...and land!\