Why Are Racism and Nooses so Natural?

Recent acts of racism and racial harassment make me wonder what year we are truly living in; it feels like I'm in a dream and flashing back to the early 1900's. Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania and going to a predominately white school where I was usually the only black child in the class in the 80's I know what it's like to feel racially harassed every day and being made to feel like less than on a regular basis. I can recall being called a nigger at least four times a week and having to just take it and walk away. If it wasn't for my Mother telling me that I was not that word and that word meant ignorant and that was something I knew I wasn't so at the time I would go back to what my Mother said to me and it made it easier to walk away or else I would have found myself fighting everyday and being angry and I didn't want that for myself because I wanted to make my parents proud to call me their daughter.

The recent rash of racial tension and hanging of nooses to make a point to black people it make me wonder if instead of progression if we as a society are not regressing into the ways of old where the KKK ruled and even took over many lives not just blacks but whites if they chose to deal with black people, those time should have been dead and buried along with the people that the KKK has murdered and has been allowed to murder for many centuries and nothing was done about it until people in general not just black people but the people in general got tired of feeling crippled by the fear that the Klan and other hate group tried to instill through violence and anger, they were allowed to spew their hatred but when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to march for peace and equality he was met with violence from the very people that were suppose to protect and serve, Police Officers, Judges, Firemen instead they would march with the Klan to protect them from harm but bought harm to Dr. King when he was a peaceable man that never said an angry word to anyone.