Many Americans want racially charged issues to go away.
But the final steps in the country's 400-year-long journey through the pitfall-strewn landscape of racial injustice have yet to be taken.
Whether it fits into your view of the United States or not, the racially charged violence sparked by the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., is an ugly reminder about the country's struggle to overcome centuries of bias against African Americans.
As long as African American teenagers walking down the street are at high-risk of being shot to death, America has more steps to take.
As long as white men think it is acceptable to drive around in their pickups with battlefield Confederate flags flying from the truck bed, America has more steps to take.
As long as nearly half of the people incarcerated in the United States are black, America has more steps to take.
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