I too am proud of what this nation has accomplished. America has come a long way in several decades but still has farther to go; but not from a legal stand point, but by means of the individual altering their perspective and embracing their fellow man. As the Catholic Church preaches, "Strive to see Christ in everyone." Not that you might agree with quoting the Catholic Church, but I believe the message strikes at the heart of the personal and social change that is needed.
The idea of a "racial legacy" is very real; don't be disagreeable just for the sake of disagreeing. Denying the racial legacy of Whites, Blacks, Native Americans, Jews, Japanese, etc is to ignore our own history and growth as a nation. Every time a public figure, politician, or organization plays on racial stereotypes and highlights social conditions it is confirmation of America's racial legacy and the perpetuation of that legacy.
If by "we are all the same at the core" you mean we are all equal under the law and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, then I totally agree. But no one can honestly deny that inequality is inherent in human nature. One man will never be equal to another in that the talents each individual possesses is unique to them. The only way Man can be viewed "the same at the core" is through the laws that bind us together; just as our Founding Fathers intended and as Dr. King preached.
I too feel no sense of white guilt as I was raised in low-income welfare housing and currently live in a middle-class mixed neighborhood. But there are, believe it or not, upper-class white people who were indoctrinated through progressive grade school, college, aging hippy parents, and media to despise their demographic and societal standing, i.e.; the self-hating progressive I referenced. Me personally, as a white person raised in a mixed low-income neighborhood, I experienced racism in my own right and am very familiar with epithets like; cracker, beloved patriot, ofay, peckerwood, hillbilly, redneck, and white-bread. I became accustomed to being accused of being a member of the KKK, accused of owning slaves, and getting my a$s beat simply because I was white. As a result, I do not deny that racism exists but it is also why I believe in what Dr. King said and preached.
The number of blacks arrested compared to crimes committed is borderline straw man as there are MANY demographic variations to be considered. For the most part, many States have profiling laws and there are reports of police being relieved of duty for targeting someone solely because they were black. Also, there are discrimination laws against employment selection based on race or religion. While these are "newer" laws and do not help of racism in 1965, the laws are in place now and have greatly changed our society, our attitudes, and how minorities live and work in today's America. And that's the point really, what happened years ago, should not be remembered to perpetuate how bad it used to be but remembered as a baseline in which to measure just how better things have gotten. As JAYDEEJOHN wrote...
...we follow a slippery slope in perpetuation with things like the NAACP, the United Negro College fund etc...That means all of us must take a stand, to do the right things, the hard things. Allowing for things that obviously seperate ourselves, those left out must wait with patience til those things are truly obsolete.
It's easy to complain about how things are and search for boogeymen to blame and very difficult to admit our own faults and change our attitudes and perspective. As Dr. King said...
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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