Generational Dynamics World View

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-31-2020, 10:39 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Racism is an internecine war raging in the Democratic party, with Republicans as collateral damage.  Racism is an issue that has split the Democrats for almost two centuries.  Republicans have consistently opposed racism, the KKK, the Black Codes, the lynchings and the
discrimination from the beginning, so it's up to the Democrats to resolve their own internal split to resolve America's racism issue.

What planet have you been living on lately?

LBJ and MLK allied for the black vote.  Nixon started the Southern Strategy as the obvious response.  Thus, the parties virtually switched places on the race issue in the awakening.  The old Civil War alignments are long gone.  I don’t see any awareness of that.  Thus, the above article is a total miss, badly messed up by ideological blindness.

I concur on a general uprising or civil war being unlikely, but every two or four generations there is a call for more equality which eventually comes.  Last time, with the civil rights movement, it was prejudice in hotels and restaurants providing service.  This time the issue is police murder.  There are protests when the murders clearly happen.  The protests get worse every time it happens.  Eventually, the police will figure it out.  I don't know how large the protests will have to get before they do figure it out.  The racists, encouraged by Trump and others in the Republican Party, are a contributing factor.