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In America today, Martin, a person of color can be the head of a Fortune 500 company, a major educational institution or a health-care system. A black person can oversee state and local government and sit in the highest courts of state and nation. And a black person can live anywhere his or her means will allow. …
Yet, these rights and advances do not eliminate the fact that some taxicab drivers in major American cities still don’t stop to pick up a person of color. And blacks still feel the sting of maltreatment by racist law enforcement officers.
There are still racist employers, supervisors and coworkers who make life difficult and unpredictable for people of color on a daily basis. And Martin, this is true in both state and church.
But these are acts of the heart and mind, not policy and law. ... The more challenging task is still before us: to change hearts and attitudes, as well as create a milieu that does not give root to such attitudes in the first place.
—Bishop Woodrow W. White in a birthday letter to Martin Luther King Jr. Each year before Jan. 15 , the retired bishop assesses for King the progress of racial equality in the United States.