Photo courtesy of Ted Eytan - Flickr We thought we were okay. We no longer had to use separate facilities, and we could sit anywhere we wanted on the bus. There was a black man in the White House for the first time.We were making strides; Dr. King's dream had come true. We thought we had a generation that would never understand the real significance of having a Black man in the White House. We thought they would never truly comprehend the hatred behind the use of the word "nigger" back in the old days. It was a word that many of them used often with a different meaning. One day a gun went off, and a young Black man wearing a black hoodie was silenced forever. Worldwide attention was brought back to a low-lying problem... Racism between blacks and whites. People wore hoodies all over the world in remembrance. Candles were lit and prayers were sent to God. Another term was over, and the Black man was still in the White House. Meanwhile, the preparations for the po...