Posted on 04/18/2022 4:14:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This reactionary and neo-Confederate return to racial stigmatization and hatred is not going to end well.
Elected governments were rare in the past. They did not appear until over four millennia after civilization first emerged in the Near East. Constitutional systems were fragile at birth. And they are on the wane today. Nation after nation seems to be devolving into autocracy. Multiethnic, multiracial consensual governments have been even more brittle and sporadic in history.
The Roman, Ottoman, and Soviet empires were multiracial. But they were not consensual. Instead, they required a degree of force to ensure calm among rival tribes and warring peoples—violence that we would find incompatible with our notions of modern democracy.
Today, India and Brazil are large multicultural and multiethnic democracies. But neither, so far, has guaranteed their citizens either prosperity or security.
So present-day multiracial America is a great experiment in the unknown. Can its various tribes, and races unite around the Constitution? Or will they inevitably revert to form and give their first loyalties to those of shared superficial racial or ethnic affinities?
Regressing to the Color of Our Skin
Until about 2008, it was generally believed America had made great strides in rendering race incidental rather than essential to our characters. We were moving away from the racial collective of our past to the individual. That was the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr., who emphasized content of character over color of skin.
Barack Obama’s presidency, however, resurrected tribal identity politics. He rebooted the banal word “diversity” and made it synonymous with anyone and anything “nonwhite.” Thereby, he instantly diminished class as the true barometer in postmodern America of who was oppressed and who the oppressor.
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I have heard little children calling each other “white” as a derogatory term while taunting each other. They don’t even know they are being manipulated.
I wonder if anyone can tell me the difference between Darrell Brooks and Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam.
I also wonder if anyone can tell me the difference between Jackson Sparks and Emmitt Till.
Personally, I can see not difference.
Groomers and Neo-Confederates. And they think they have the moral high ground.
Until about 2008, it was generally believed America had made great strides in rendering race incidental rather than essential to our characters. We were moving away from the racial collective of our past to the individual. That was the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr., who emphasized content of character over color of skin.
Barack Obama’s presidency, however, resurrected tribal identity politics.
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Because if racial tensions waned, then all the cottage industries that grift off of whining about racial inequality would lose their purpose for being. How are you going to by a multi-million dollar mansion without the big bucks flowing into these grievance agencies?
I commented that the NYC subway shooter was no different than the scum SC church shooter, Dylan Roof....I have been put in Farcebook hell now....banned and not able to delete my account. Hate speech, ya know.
Bkmk
I saw on a local political board the following:
“for racism to end, whites must become the victims of racism”
Whites have been the victims of racism for decades, apparently it's not working.
I'm not sure I agree with this. The only way that race was 'incidental' was if whites agreed to all kinds of racial acquiescence allowing nonwhites to be racial while whites pretended race didn't matter. Affirmative Action, the Black Caucus, the NAACP and a multitude of race based groups & policies. Of course it is blatant now but I think it is disingenuous to suggest is was not there before Obmanation.
Yep, just as I now often see maskless parents in stores with their kids who are dutifully wearing their Masks of Compliance. Well, who didn’t want to show off their superior knowledge learned at school in front of their parents?
A lost generation in the making.
“for racism to end, whites must become the victims of racism”
You'll never end discrimination by discriminating.
No victims, no turmoil, no rat party. Gotta’ invent victim classes to justify demolishing the midddle-class.
All thanks to Bammy.
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