I’m sure it will sound trite, but I wish this country could become post-racial. I don’t discuss race much, but I wish there were no such thing, or at least people were not conscious of it. In theory at least, this country is not racial. But in practice, it has become relegated to being a permanent reactionary state against racism, and the process is an endless, self-fueling cycle. The ridiculous carping over Quentin Tarantino’s new film is typical.
I don’t like the concept of race. But like most things I don’t like, it won’t go away simply because I want it to go away.
Perhaps I should more loudly avoid it. Perhaps not.
Race consciousness sucks. You’d think America electing a black president would make race less of an issue, but it only seems to have made it more of an issue — to the point where criticizing the president is routinely called racist. This means, of course, that those who voted against him — half the country — are racist. And half the country being racist makes a post-racial United States almost impossible by definition.
Still, I can dream, can’t I?
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
Many would consider the above to be racism.
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But we still have racism Southern style practiced nationally.
It is explained in the short video here:
http://classicalvalues.com/2012/12/who-is-torturable/
It is really more about class. But it is practiced as racism.
P.S. We shall overcome.
On the day a conservative icon sings that, and believes it – all of us win.
Dream on, dream on; I’ll do the same. As he did. Not often quoted from that speech:
“But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
Oh heck – almost NOTHING is ever quoted from that speech except that one paragraph.
As Insty says”Read the WHOLE thing.
It’s not nice, not PC, but…it’s correct.