America is to be commended for its valiant efforts to defend the rights of those on foreign shores. But what of the civil liberties of Americans?
I recently made a bid on a house in the old Irving Park section of Chicago. My realtor, who lived across the street from the property, received many menacing telephone calls objecting to the prospect of having a black neighbor. Obviously, it does not matter that I am a hard-working, law- abiding citizen-only that my skin is black.
Why, many have asked, do you want to live there? But why can`t I? Why must my American Dream be a conditional one?
I heard stories of the difficulties my parents and their friends endured when I was a child. I thought I lived in a better era. I never thought that 30 years later I would encounter similar injustices and difficulties in finding an appropriate place to live.
