[chloesMama]

The problem with the past is that even when you let it go , it's always going to be there , you will always remember it and even when you put it aside you never truly forget it. Was the Inauguration of our first black President the best place for him to talk about racial division , hell no.

Saying we need to move past racial division is much easier said by the younger generation who are more removed from it than it will be for the older generation who have actually lived through it. Most don't want to forget and don't want their children to forget the struggles they went through. Not from a point of racism but out of pride that they came through it with their head held high at the other end.

We need to move forward as a nation , united together where race isn't an issue , but even saying that statement proves how far away we are. Even at a time when a Black leader is elected we still have the need to say black leader.

No matter how hard I may try to empathize I have never been considered someones property , I have never had to give up my own name and take my masters , I have never been in fear for my life because I simply wanted to sit in the front of the bus or walk through the door's of a school and be considered equal. I have never and will never know that kind of pain , anger or fear. But all who did probably don't like to be told to move on and get over it simply because it's in the past .

We are moving forward , but we shouldn't try so hard to erase the past. We need to understand our nation as a whole the good and the bad and learn from the mistakes of our past and hold onto hope for the future.

I hope one day that everyone unites as a whole , but we will not get far if we expect everyone to forget the struggles they went through no matter what their race.