Clearly there is no shortage of red hot political issues today to inflame controversy and differing points of view. With Martin Luther King Day, in recognition of this man’s many accomplishments as an American, just behind us, I’d like to talk about race relations.

Race has long been a painful issue in our country. The encouraging aspect of it is that progress has never stopped. Even when slavery was an accepted tool of revenue for agricultural businesses there was a large group of people…