Maya Angelou Donald Sterling is Proof of Racial Progress

By Elizabeth Nelson

Maya Angelou is an amazing woman of grace and wisdom and when she speaks, people listen.  After her assessment of Donald Sterling, I would have to wonder if Martin Luther King, Jr. is rolling over in his grave at the one-sided-hypocrisy.

“Do you realize that even 25 years ago, had he done this there would be nothing, there would be a few heads turning maybe,” Angelou told executive editor Armstrong Williams in this candid interview. She continued to echo her astonishment at Sterling’s punishment:

“But do you realize that this man has been banned? With all of his money and all of his history and the white skin which covers his whole body.”

When followed up with a second question, the outspoken Angelou continued her assessment on racial progress in America, stating that while Sterling is a great example of change, we can’t assume racism is completely removed in today’s world:

“I say we have come far, this man is a throw-forward, that’s all, not a throwback. There are many people like [Mr. Sterling] who in person would say, ‘I accept your award, and thank you for caring and thinking of me as an equal,’ but in private, if you could catch them on an iPad or Twitter or something, your ears would burn…Ignorance is afoot, and it’s not going away easily.”

Yes, ma'am, ignorance is afoot, when it's only the "crackers" that are considered the "racist" race, when in fact the blacks and even other races, as we just found out with Elliot Rodgers, are racists. [insert shocked face]

Maya also sees the Donald Sterling situation as one that will clearly not be easily resolved. When discussing the possibility of Donald Sterling selling the Clippers without a fight, Angelou quoted Frederick Douglas when she told Williams, “Power has never been known to give up any of itself upon the simple request of it. You don’t just walk up to power and say, ‘Give me some of yourself, please.’”

Angelou has never hesitated to voice her opinion in her 86 years on this planet. Her biography includes several highly-regarded autobiographies that focus on her childhood and early adult experiences for which she is best known. Maya Angelou has also published three books of essays and several books of poetry and has won several prestigious awards in her lifetime, including the National Medal of Arts. Read more Inquisitr  

Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream, not that the Government would make everyone equal but that everyone would be treated equal. In his dream he saw that people weren't judged on the color of their skin: black, yellow, red, or white, but on the content of their character. 

I would have to wonder, if MLK were to go to sleep and have a dream about how our society treats each other now, blacks punching and shooting whites, our Government condoning it by not reporting black on white crimes but making sure to over publicize the other and never reporting black on black crime or sweeping black assailants under the carpet, like the 16-year-old that shot the Pennsylvania Taxi Driver, because he didn't "follow his directions."  **MSM Crickets***