As a country. Would that we could find a psychiatrist’s couch big enough.
I’m watching the scat about to hit the fan in Boston and there’s a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. It sickens me because there IS a moral equivalency on both sides of hate fueled racism, regardless of who threw the first punch. If this is difficult to understand, you’re either delusional or not evolved enough as a human. I almost envy you. It’s gut wrenching, to watch a hate stitched blanket of our making.
This country is about to implode. I saw something different in Charlottesville. There’s a lot of anger coming from people who used to protest with their wallets. I’m talking about the white flighters and various people of ethnic persuasions who have for years, been abandoning urban areas in droves. They moved because of fear and there’s no right or wrong reason for wanting to leave. Fear is real.
Hate is real and what we we have to admit is that as errant humans, hate exists in everyone’s heart and even in the texture of their souls. The only difference is that most sane, civilized people don’t act on it.
I hate slavery….slavery of all kinds. I hate what happened in the Antebellum South. I hate that Jews have been enslaved and murdered en mass for millenia. I despise how early American in NYC and other cities in the Northeast treated newly emigrated Italians and The Irish. I hate that our forefathers forced the Chinese to do the grueling work it took to build this country’s first railway system. I’m sorry that almost 70 years ago, our leaders felt it necessary to inter Japanese Americans in camps after we entered the Pacific Theater in WWII. And we can’t forget how Latinos were treated, especially along Mexican border states. Not to mention the Portuguese, Puerto Rican’s…….
And women. Even Rosa Parks acknowledged this part of the prejudicial equation.
Yes, it was horrible and unfair and inhumane but it also happened, and it happened so long ago. We cannot be revisionist historians. Sadly, what happened, happened and if we forget the past, we’re doomed to repeat it and if we don’t let go of certain aspects of the past, we’ll never get ahead. Why can’t these sociopaths on both sides of the issue see this??? And we can’t spend our lives being perpetual apologists or career victims. or race baiters of all colors, but there’s money and political gain in feeling this way. All completely reprehensible based in its greed and insincerity.
This has been made into a political battle. Left vs right. Racists Republicans vs Racist Democrats. This is really only about right and wrong. Hate of any kind is wrong. But that’s not enough for race baiters on both sides. It’s just an excuse to garner votes, to incite violence, to prove your mental shortcomings.
I don’t know what the answer is, but I know what it isn’t. Tearing down statues of Confederate generals isn’t the answer…it’s just vandalism that’s fanning angry flames;,the very angry, disenfranchised flames which got Trump elected. Think about it. Trump’s win was as much a revolt as it was an election. Things will only worse…MUCH worse as the the color of the tide of anger and resentment changes.
