Various politicians and pundits after every act of violence in the news; “This is not who we are.”
4,084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 in the South.
“Racism in the United States has existed since the colonial era, when white Americans were given legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights while these same rights were denied to other races and minorities. European Americans — particularly affluent white Anglo-Saxon Protestants — enjoyed exclusive privileges in matters of education, immigration, voting rights, citizenship, land acquisition, and criminal procedure throughout American history. Non-Protestant immigrants from Europe, particularly Irish people, Poles, and Italians, often suffered xenophobic exclusion and other forms of ethnicity-based discrimination in American society until the late 19th century and early 20th century. In addition, groups like Jews and Arabs have faced continuous discrimination in the United States, and as a result, some people who belong to these groups do not identify as white. East, South, and Southeast Asians have similarly faced racism in America.”
This…is who we are.
And no amount of “experts” and “pundits” and politicians – all fantasizing that we are on the better side of angels – can ever whitewash America’s terrible history of hate and violence. And “this” is by no means an American phenomenon. This is world-wide, and occurs all throughout humankind’s sad history. As wonderful as all of humankind’s achievements are, this violence and hatred, along with humankind’s relentless attack on it’s only home, Earth, is stark proof of humankind’s arrant cosmic ignorance of place, ignorance of connection, and hypocrisy in pretending to a “Christianity” that ignores every precept of Jesus Christ.
Is this not who we are?
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I am completely gobsmacked that the race relations of the US in the 1960s have gone backwards and not forwards. And people claim to be religious.
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as am I. Altho…I am quite down on the general intelligence/independence gene of the industrial world’s populace. In short, too many sheep willing to be herded lockstep to the slaughter. thanks LP. continue…
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Amen.
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…and sad. thanks Jots . continue…
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