HunterCA
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I think the majority of all US black communities agree with you. The marches against violence in Baltimore strongly suggest this. Stereotyping the whole black community for the actions of a largely adolescent male group is as bad from inside the minority community as from outside. That the political power structure of Baltimore has been black for a long time has been conveniently ignored by the infotainment industry and those willing to loot and burn their own communities. A number of observers in Baltimore have commented that a sizable portion of violent protesters were from outside the areas of the protests, and regular participants. How this indicts the greater black community nationwide is unclear.
See, you always start off reasonable before you go into screed.
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Current social media do not lend to measured consideration of causes and consequences, this is new and provocateurs exploit it. The Infotainment industry that has emerged from the ethics vacuum of corporate ownership is as problematic and another destabilizing influence in current public life.
So I'm sensing you'd prefer a state controlled media like Pravda, or what's happening in Argintinia now.
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Yet more bread and circuses to keep the masses preoccupied by issues other than their exploitation??
For instance the exploitation of the illigals coming here who are being allowed in for their votes, the ones who drive wages down for jobs that The 52,000,000 out of work American workers would probably prefer to welfare if the market was allowed to set wages.
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Or just seeking profit at any cost?
Seeking redress for world wide issues of racial and economic oppression, and dysfunctional responses to those, in largely corrupt and short sighted local politics (States Rights) seems as ill-informed by history as an approach could be.
Yes, let's not decentralize government. Let's make it big and powerful so those short sighted people in the Govenors mansions can't have a voice. Let's keep access to government for the people as difficult as possible. Sounding more Castro - Lenin - Mao all the time. Why don't you just say you're an ol timey communist, probably pre-70's era.
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Our current embarrassing national legislative dog and pony show is not the answer, I fear a complete rework of US politics may be required.
There you go. You really do resent Roosevelt, as every communist does, because you wish that the masses would have risen in revolution and you really belive the only reason they didn't is because of the New Deal. Personally, I'm minded of Churchill who said, paraphrased, democracy is the ugliest and worst form of government, except all of the others. But, I love how you cast your dispersions without offering what you believe would fix things.
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Dr. King and others created a national consensus for freedom with social responsibility. The momentum was lost, the ball dropped. How to re-establish this is not obvious.
Believing armed conflict is inevitable, or an effective answer to anything,
Excepting, of course, the People's revolutions of course.
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are both self-fulfilling prophesies of social disintegration. A larger faith in people is required for any solution towards reintegration, each of America's successful responses to challenges has included this. Such faith was the core of the non-violent successes of Gandhi and King.
Yea that seems to be working out real well for Jesse Jackson but few others. Including India and Pakistan. See, others can just be nay sayers as well.
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Flags mean many things. Wearing 7th Calvary uniforms to a First Nations event isn't a bit provocative? Or a Imperial French flag to Cinco de Mayo events? A Confederate Battle Flag shirt might be misunderstood at a rally against racism, Or correctly interpreted? A shirt with all the Western Hemisphere flags that resulted from revolutions against foreign powers might be an wider gesture? Might not parts of the military history of the US vs Mexico be included in these events by those who have histories and ancestral identifications outside the US? As a First Nations individual, surely simply that America did (or does) something doesn't justify it as right?
It's a very insecure individual or group who take offense against anyone else celebrating their separate culture and history. We all learn from each other or we suffer from not knowing our neighbors or Humanity.
You do sermonize purty.
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I'm absolutely certain current urban culture has forgotten and needs many lessons all the First Nations knew.
Let me guess, these first unnamed nations were pre-western imperial hegemony, right?
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Their failure to respond successfully to the economic, military and other challenges during the expansion of Western domination of the Hemisphere says their wisdom was not sufficient to the times. The times are new and unprecedented, we all learn and grow together or history may actually end in our times. Looking backwards isn't a luxury we can afford anymore. Grow or die?
Oh goodie...I guessed right. Yay for me.
Let's see. Yesterday I linked to an article where scholars now believed Mao in China killed off something like 80,000,000 of his people and in the western imperial hegemony poor people eat at least three decent meals a day, own a car, have air conditioning and more than one color TV. Ummm? Which one? Shall I pick the communists or the imperialists? Oh, it's just so hard to choose. Let's see, we build a wall to keep people out. They build walls, place land minds and machine gun towers around the walls to keep people in. I just can't choose. Why don't you help with advise.
< Message edited by HunterCA -- 5/17/2015 4:35:06 PM >
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