This weekend I watched a good movie about the Estonian movement for independence from Soviet domination. The movie is called “The Singing Revolution” and is an inspirational chronicle of how the Estonians broke the chains of communist totalitarianism.
You can visit the website, type in your zip code to see if and when it is playing in your area. If enough folks request the movie be shown in their city, theaters will show it.
My friend just sent me this picture of a flyer that was posted on his door in Columbia Heights this morning.
The flyer reads “Crackers Coming 2 Town.. Stop Gentrification” and “Keep DC Black.” The picture is from a KKK rally in Washington D.C. from some time in the distant past. It’s unfortunate that whoever posted this flyer on my friend’s door has such hate in his or her heart for white people. I doubt that Dr. King would support this kind of intimidation and racism.
My friend was also accosted on two different occasions in the neighborhood. One angry man yelled at him as he was crossing the street “F!@# you whitey.” Another time a couple of guys leaving a pool hall in the neighborhood came up to him and spat on him.
The racial animosity for white folks who live in Columbia Heights is apparently a big problem. It’s really too bad, given that my friend is one of the most tolerant people I know and has done a lot of work to help mentor inner-city youth. He is quite the farthest thing from a Klansman.
We still have a long way to go when it comes to moving past the racial wounds in our social fabric. But it’s going to take all ethnicities to work together to heal these wounds.
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