An old friend e-mailed Cranky Greg today with an article from the Dallas Business Journal discussing American Airlines' new website, BlackAtlas.com.
At first, Cranky Greg thought it was a joke, because it seemed so silly - a social networking site by American Airlines for black people.
After all, Cranky Greg thought that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks and all of the other heroes from the Civil Rights era fought and sacrificed so their kids would not have to be classified by their skin color. Their kids would be judged, instead, by the content of their character.
Apparently all that is out now. One gets tagged as a racist for merely criticizing Barack Obama's push for Socialism, and yet now major U.S. corporations think it's cool to have Black social networking sites, to hell with Rosa Parks and MLK.
Cranky Greg wonders when there will be a KKKAtlas.com or a BlackPantherAtlas.com or a Whitey.Com or the CrackerClub.com.
Today it must be acceptable to have Black clubs, but Cranky Greg doesn't think it would be socially acceptable for a Whites club.
Cranky Greg must be missing something.