We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities. Are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other, that this is a land of the free, except for the Negroes, that we have no second-class citizens, except Negroes, that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes? Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise. Source: http://obcnews. go. com/WNT/story?id=129402 Judging from the diction in the above excerpt, what is the explicit meaning? The promise of freedom and rights to African Americans is inconsistent with the scriptures and the American Constitution. African Americans deserve the full democratic rights of freedom and Justice. It is unclear whether this is the best time to extend civil rights to African Americans. We should not mix morality and politics,