07-04-2020, 10:38 AM
(07-03-2020, 02:50 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Regarding the efforts to end racism.... The experiment has been done.
What is obvious with hind sight is that you don't truly end racism. Even in a city like Minneapolis, which is deemed liberal/progressive, race relations are very fragile.
After enormous efforts, what you get is a brittle truce between the races-just below a seemingly calm, political correct surface. This is as good as it gets.
What is obvious is that racism is a declining ideology that cannot survive the increasingly globalized world we live in.
We live in a global society now. We have been, ever since the soldiers of world war one died for the new league of nations. Racism cannot survive in a world that is connected tightly by world commerce, technology, science, culture, and communication media. It cannot survive as more and more immigration breaches through all walls erected by the reactionaries and xenophobes. Race mixing is so inevitable, and happening so fast, that soon, according to one scientist who spoke in a PBS documentary, it will not be possible to trace our genetics and say who was where in the past.