There’s a story on the RawStory website that is frighteningly symbolic of the magnitude of the deep psychological Illness that America absolutely steadfastly refuses to both fully acknowledge and cure itself of. It’s titled: Michigan police stop black man for "looking suspiciously" at white woman. No, that’s not a typo. In the year 2019, a black man most certainly still can be stopped by the police for “looking suspiciously” at a white woman. Does the full magnitude of just how far we psychologically HAVEN’T come as a society since the death of Emmett Till in 1955 register at all???
For about the 10 bazillionth time, trump is not the cause of things like this. trump is in fact but a single symbolic direct result (among thousands) OF centuries of things like this. Long after trump is gone this sort of thing will without a doubt still be happening. And what’s more, I can tell you almost exactly when it will finally stop happening! It will finally begin to end when America finally acknowledges that we still have an overwhelming appetite for maintaining a segregated society. Not “just a few isolated nutcases”, as so many folks on the Left are mindlessly determined, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, to keep believing. A continuing widespread racially segregated America! And a segregated society absolutely insures the continuation of institutional racial violence...JUST LIKE THIS! You literally can’t have one without the other.
This website is dedicated to electing “more and better Democrats”. But that means almost nothing if we on the Left don’t finally begin to lead the way, by getting truly honest about what we specifically need those more and better Democrats for. And somewhere very, very close to the top of what we need those Democrats for is to finally address the never-ending violent and insidious sociological effects of five centuries of continuing racial segregation. It’s a major part of the underlying disease. And we must begin to break the cycle and stop pretending with ourselves each time we’re mildly successful at simply temporarily masking the ugliest symptoms of that disease.
In the year 2019, “...looking suspiciously at a white woman...”??? Surely this has to wake some of us up that we’re approaching rock bottom!
Really America???