10-07-2020, 09:13 AM
(10-07-2020, 08:48 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(10-06-2020, 07:40 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Black Lives Matter is today's version of the Black Panthers. Whatever... America doesn't care because America mainly views them as a Democratic problem these days.
Your idea of what constitutes America is very different from mine. We all have the responsibility to accommodate statutory law as a basic minimum of decency in behavior. We have no obligation to accept that any people are second-class citizens or worse.
People very different from me can be just as American as I am.
The Black Panthers were roughly comparable with today's Antifa. They are willing to go violent if the opposition does. Black Lives Matter is more compatible with Martin Luther King's Civil Rights protest. Their objective is to protest, not look for an excuse for violence.
The difference is one between tribal thinking and more abstract principle like 'all men are created equal.' There is no denying the Cavalier culture contains a dash of tribal thinking, and that the Cavalier heirs contributed much to America, as did the Roundheads. To this day, people can be incredibly stubborn in clinging to one or the other. Stubborn or principled, depending on whether one is talking about them or us. Still, Classic calling only one pattern American is rather obtuse even for him.
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.