Another Final Post on Johnson

What can we do? That is the question that Allan Johnson poses in the final chapter of his book Privledge, Power, and Difference. What can we do to fix the differences of power that we have in this country that was supposed to be equal. I thought that when Dr. King said we had a dream that one day everyone would be treated the same he didn't think that after all this time nothing much has changed. Okay so slavery is gone. Okay we can all work, eat, go to school, church, and thousands of other things together but even though we can do all those things we couldn't do years before we are still not equal. We get the same opprountities right? Wrong. Example. College Football this season has seen its share of stories on the field but one has shocked me the most. Out of the 115 division 1 football schools do you know how many coaches of those teams are black? 6. Count them 6. Yeah that's the truth. What else gets me is what went on at the University of Michigan earlier this month as they began to look for a coach to replace Lloyd Carr who is retiring at the end of this season. They talked to Les Miles who coaches at LSU and because of that the newest rule in finding a coach is that you must at least interview an africian american person for the job whether you give the job to them or not. I think this is great because it's a step in the right direction. I think Johnson would be impressed with this also because it proves his point in how this can all be changed if our society can work as one.