08-08-2016, 09:45 PM
(08-07-2016, 04:04 PM)Anthony Wrote: You know it's not too late to "change the subject" and make this 4T about Americans vs. Muslims instead of, well, European-Americans against African-Americans; i.e., Blue Lives Matter vs. Black Lives Matter.
And I'd be unscrupulous enough to float this as a serious possibility.
I'd as soon make it about equality. I'd move towards economic equality, easing the division of wealth. I'd make it about equality under law, with the police and justice officials treating all the same, trying to eliminate the not insignificant remnants of racism. I'd make it about fighting terrorism, looking for individuals who are threats to the peace rather than prejudging folk according to their ethnic background or religion.
Of the three, I'd want things to focus on economics. The other two problems aren't insignificant, they are very significant indeed to those caught up in the center of those storms, but they effect fewer people. My sense is that the Robber Barons and their stooges are again using race baiting to distract attention from how they are maintaining an unequal society. This is a standard ploy, right out of the traditional All American political playbook.
I'd watch how you are describing and understanding the problems. Do you see race and religion as problems to be solved, or is it behaviors that should be suppressed? I'd go after people who break laws and hurt others, not people who have a certain skin color or worship God in a certain way.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.