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Leonard Pitts: Why can’t we have nice things? Actually, we could. Resort-style swimming pools are just one of the public amenities that white people have done without rather than share them with Black people. By Leonard Pitts Jr.The Miami Herald Its bloodiest war was over whether they should be enslaved. It has no institution – not one – that is free of racial discrimination. Yet we are supposed to take seriously those who now ask if America is a racist country? It seems to have obsessed many of us, this shallow question with the obvious answer, since it was raised by a speech last we...

Leonard Pitts writes that racism is the root of why America cannon redeem its potential.

Is America a racist country? Seriously, you even have to ask? | Column Why can’t we have nice things? Actually, we could.   Published May 5 Its bloodiest war was over whether they should be enslaved. It has no institution — not one — that is free of racial discrimination. Leonard Pitts [ File photo ] Yet, we are supposed to take seriously those who now ask if America is a racist country? It seems to have obsessed many of us, this shallow question with the obvious answer, since it was raised by a speech last week from Tim Scott, the only Black Republican senator. “Hear m...

While laying the foundation stone for the new Parliament building in the national capital last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of India’s tryst with democracy long before the Magna Carta was signed in England in 1215 offering liberty and freedom to the people. He referred to Anubhava Mantapa—a peoples’ Parliament open to all sections of society—established by the philosopher-saint Basaveshwara in Karnataka a century earlier. The egalitarian principles laid down by the saint were later incorporated in the composition of democratic assemblies in many countries. Modi also refer...