Dollar-motivated hidden agenda distracts, delays, denies equality.
(BEND, Ore.) - Barack Obama’s direct, courageous and extremely sensitive and wise defiance of “political correctness” to confront and overcome “the racial bomb” in this campaign reflects the highest credit on not only his personal courage but also his professional competence as our next national leader.
There is no question about the serious, continuing damage and the potential destruction this nation faces if we allow further continuance -- and our own complicity-- in an “unsustainable” attitude-and-approach to fellow humans.
That erroneous attitude has no place --and no function! Not even in the new 21st Century, lush and ripe and resounding with opportunity and advance for all, even to the level of equality first conceived and long sought ever since from the days of our Founders and creation of this nation.
Ethical and religious conceptual and practical applications teach us all the tremendous simple truth that we need to know: Humans are humans, skin-color and mental processes and every other component of our being --and believing -- is the same-for-all.
Cognitive, psychological, learning, cultural --and even, now, the entire scope of economic science-- teaches us that single essential and consequential lesson.
Isn’t it about time we really learned --and begin to live it?
The plain fact of hampering and sometimes even defeating any possible advances in this new Century is undeniable and clearly threatening for all who can overcome any possible or potential prejudice or provocation reflected from family or personal life experience.
For others, it may still come down to learning “the hard way” --when the inevitable consequences of continuing color-discrimination come driving home, with whatever widespread blood-and-guts disemboweling may be suffered, as always, with the greatest pain-and-damage to those the least-guilty but still-vulnerable.
If people doubt this definite and historical probability, simple reference to American and World history should set any such doubts to rest.
It (widespread desperate racial riot and conflagration) HAS happened, here and elsewhere, and it CAN and WILL happen again --if we continue our lack of concentration and failure to build strong consensus determination to do better, faster, and further than ever before.
My own case may serve to illuminate the essential and demanded process from prejudice to personal understandings and fully open attitude.
My mother was from the real Deep South - Maryland. Her descent, as for my father’s side, too, is from really desperate Irish immigrants, fleeing British seizure of lush Irish lands.
Their arrival allowed Southern plantation owners to work a difficult transition --from slaves for whom they must provide food, shelter, and other care increasingly costly, then, too-- to usage of Irish “woeful-arrivers” (in the jargon of the day, as mother told me) easily forced to feed themselves, find shelter wherever they could, and cover all other survival costs themselves.
You can “see with your own eyes” via numerous films, plays, books and academic studies, documenting this situation, some in much stronger terms than employed here.
Little-noted now, that footnote to historical reality played a real role in the national economy --focused on wealth/produced by the plantation system all across the South-- and adding to the ultimate pressures prevailing right up until slavery itself, that ultimate cancer-on-society, was excised at huge costs in both blood and treasure by our own stultifying Civil War.
What has continued that real-repression even unto today --driven by that same dollar-dominated, devil-take-all-else determination of some to manipulate, “manage” and make dollar-slaves of all others-- is the corporate and business confrontation with state control, breaking through from the concept of regulation for the commonweal and thus allowing the creation --by false personhood pursued for decades-- of the perverted “corporate campaign contribution”.
That came about early-on, at railroad-ramrodded instigation, as prelude to further determined dollar-domination via denial of many rights, both explicit and implicit, on the shaky and silly basis of untrue and surely now unproven “racial deficiencies”.
Probing historical study has now shown, unmistakably and undeniably, that a dollar-protecting agenda, driven deeper into our national economy --unavoidably, also into our national consensus-- was and continues to be at the heart of this complex, continuing planned attack.
The latter impact, on consensus, was a prime purpose of the attack, stated in some detail among members of the initiating cabal.
The entire picture is now emerging as a desperate diversion and a damaging technique --exercised by those in position to do so, through economic power and control-- aided and abetted by multiple and manifold failures by our vaunted “free press” to properly and promptly inform and teach the citizens; who thus refused the people’s power for precisely the controls-demanded.
Pundits “on air” pounded away on both sides of this issue, with the impact of the Obama speech invariably, unavoidably, less-than- “objectively” described and decimated decidedly and precisely as one might expect from their caption-named political “responsibilities”.
Somehow one could not possibly avoid the very strong feeling that his straight-talk has excised the otherwise-stunning “unbelievability quotient” credited with strengthening and continuing the closed-mind, closet-hiding stance of those who persist in prolonging the many very obvious demonstrations of racism-still-at-work, seen every day, in nearly every way, by anyone who will but look.
What science, culture, economic and working experience has long ago proven-up precisely and portentously --as direct and solid guidance for us in the 21st Century-- is now irrevocably also conquering even the cross/grained and contentious concept of “political correctness” --long the last barrier to basic consensus-acceptance across our whole nation.
I had intended here to run-down the outstanding and long-list of all those situations, sequences, seductions, and similar settings in which every one of us has observed the ongoing application of racism in all its wracking impacts and democracy-worrying occurrences.
I will cite a single incident, reflective of the entire-whole we all know exists daily across this nation, even today, 150 years after our Civil War: This was the day our Supreme Court reversed a life-taking decision for an accused murderer -- because the prosecutor admitted barring persons of color from the jury trying --another person of color.
Somehow, if one will but read the Obama text, that becomes eerily unnecessary since he so strongly covers the entire curious and continuing confrontations still occurring in our vaunted “strongest democracy in the world”.
In fact, I do believe all that is now needed here is to call to your attention, once again, this single definition, surely reflected from the overstrong, ever-repeated, demonstrably-damaging and extremely threatening demonstrations we all know about and have experienced.
Here it is: bigot (as in "partisan") n. : a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own .
Op Ed: Racism 'Unsustainable'
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