Greed-driven unwarranted myth of superiority major danger now.
(SALEM, Ore.) - It is a fact that most psychiatrists, and especially cognitive scientists, consider personal racist beliefs and attitudes as major symptoms for possible/probable psychotic problems.
Additionally, most practical practitioners, in those two very essential fields for the 21st Century, also attribute overwhelming personal denial of such attitudinal shaping of actions to the extremely strong force of modern cultural, societal, and economic impacts.
It is also undeniable fact that after 200 years of societal consideration, a Civil War --and even repetitive shocking, painful, bloody, expensive and extremely dangerous modern riot-and-rage cycles in our largest cities-- racism is now broadly recognized, finally, as an intolerable and unacceptable shibboleth of past-century social myth.
That solid-sense of social-cultural-economic understandings, now normally accepted by large majorities in nearly every nation across the world, is deeply reinforced by many probing-searching and highly authoritative actions by worldwide groups: Commissioned-research findings, professional-group agreements, national and international working-group findings and even international treaties.
It is also a fact that every one of all of them prove up precisely the same overwhelming reality: Racism reflects ongoing greed, supported by unfounded economic fears, always founded on various myth-building activities purposively designed to manipulate some segments of mankind for the not-so-simple economic benefit of others.
SO how-and-why does that NOW endanger our own desperately demanded return to the real principles of our once-powerful and prime-example democracy?
Anyone who reads the daily, weekly and monthly press, or who sees (and perhaps even listens carefully ?) to ongoing widespread working media comment on our political Donnybrook ostensibly preparing us for democratic decision on choice of leadership in the 21st Century, must be aware that one of the strongest candidates is being attacked principally because he is seen as racially “different” -- read “deficient” if you are a racist-inclined person.
The heart-and-soul of what we know as “racism” depends solely and very deeply on that long-proven and entirely unwarranted and extremely democracy-defeating “spin” --read “propaganda-driven fear-and-economic/status-driven myth”-- purposely pointed and continuously driven home by the neocon masters of political noise.
After more than thirty years of “very painful learning experience for honest-democracy/conscious Americans”, we should by now be ready for real appreciation of these realities --emphasized even further, deeper and more dollar-painfully, too, by the last eight of those years.
I leave to your own “see with own eyes” exploration the entire overwhelming gamut of detailed, definite, deeply-documented “heavy evidence” re the centuries-old genesis, AND the desperately-contrived development, by those in position so to gain --ever since the Middle Ages initiation by bloody conflict; AND many other devious devices displayed and deployed to lead you well astray; via this proven and highly provocative social-cultural-economic myth.
“See with own eyes” one or more of the many very specific documenting entries shared with you in the Reader’s Note.
AND ONLY THEN consider what YOU, as an aware-and-fully conscientious American citizen --right NOW, as the 21st Century dons for ALL of US-- can do, as you study and then cogitate on your electoral choice “this time around”.
You might wish to reexamine our Constitution and the famed Bill of Rights, particularly those very-promising parts defining and demanding “equality under law” and foreshadowing world-shaping application of our noted and distinguishing American form of democracy.
As a nation we’ve been noted for our “exceptionalism” ever since the Founders found what they felt were basic and demanded truths for governing our ongoing cooperative efforts for freedom and opportunity.
What we do NOW will reflect and reshape the realities with which we must all live -- in full realization that we make our own decisions in this nation and MUST surely do so in rational and reasonable understandings of the realities AND their consequences.
“Psychotic-symptom” and “denial” or not, racism has no place in what we must now do to recover and reinvigorate our democracy.
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Reader’s Note:
We deliberately chose ONLY one easily accessible source-reference to cite as documentation: Wikipedia re “Racism”. You can easily “see with own eyes” what we found, via Internet.
Nearly fifty documenting Notes for published materials covering centuries of development and understandings are contained at the end of their 11-page special section, followed by another 50 links to Internet access for further source-materials.
As time allowed, we sampled some of the most relevant and pertinent, and working notes here identifying those we thus sampled are available on request with ID to Editor Tim., per our ongoing process of “informed opinion” openly reported for your personal consideration after due-check on our sources.
We also reviewed and re-considered an extensive writer’s file kept over more than 30 years for previous writing on this major topic --including the tape referred to in my earlier Comments here, showing early findings as psychotic-symptom for racism expressed in personal action, which triggered my early interest.
So much for solid, sensible, rational and reasonable consideration from what must be appreciated as worldwide/acceptable basic reference source. Do with it what you will, with consequence well illuminated above.
BUT “now you KNOW” --without possible doubt-- from whence cometh that social/economic myth termed “racism”.
Op Ed: Renewed RacismSalem-News.com