12-19-2016, 08:39 PM
So maybe it was not enou8gh to elect Barack Obama -- because we now have Donald Trump.
Yes, we do need to come clean about the ugliest part of American history -- race-based slavery and Jim Crow practice. If we fail, then we will repeat one or the other mistake, if in a different manner.
A different manner? Sure. Here's one depiction:
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute...0001%7D%7D
Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here -- Dante Aligheri.
Yes, we do need to come clean about the ugliest part of American history -- race-based slavery and Jim Crow practice. If we fail, then we will repeat one or the other mistake, if in a different manner.
A different manner? Sure. Here's one depiction:
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute...0001%7D%7D
Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here -- Dante Aligheri.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.