Fifty-even years ago this fall, I entered Illinois State Normal University as a freshman. The year was 1957, the average annual American family income was a tad above six thousand dollars and while the White House was dealing with the segregation issue in Little Rock, Arkansas the Russians flexed their muscles with the space exploration 'Sputnik' launch. Before the year's end all polls suggested that Americans believed integration to be the Nation's number one problem.
Today, twenty thousand eight hundred and six sunsets later, Russia is still flaunting its chest pounding and the United States border crisis still suggests that we Americans are no closer to resolving the skin-pigmentation-phobia. Be not dismayed; the football Super Bowl and 'party time' is just around the corner. It is that glorious day when we Americans will overindulge in foods and alcohol, which allows us to break through our inhibitions and cheer for all colors.
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