Wednesday night, a white man walked into a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot nine parishioners. Today, a Confederate flag is flying on the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse in Columbia — as it does every day. While the flags on top of the statehouse itself are flying at half-mast, the Confederate flag (displayed at a Civil War memorial) is flying at full mast.
There’s more historical context regarding the church itself, here. Today, I’ve been remembering the words of Langston Hughes:
The past has been a mint
Of blood and sorrow.
That must not be
True of tomorrow.
Feminist Philosophers 
This is but one of the many examples of the Black “experience” that Alicia Walters spoke of recently in her rebuttal of Dr.Wendy . The Dolezal story has unleashed much heated discussion but I think Walters nailed it here.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/white-privilege-on-steroids-cnn-analyst-goes-down-in-flames-lecturing-activist-on-the-black-experience/comments/#disqus
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”