Putting Our Minds To Work, And Facing Reality-

RIGHT QUICK LIKE, let's have a quick review, and get a few things about racism clearly understood. These understandings are neither conservative, nor reflect well on the conservative point of view, which is to be expected. First, racism is not as old as the hills, goes the myth, as old as human culture, dirt, sliced bread, or anything else. Actually...not. Racism was invented in the middle of the fifteenth century, in a biography of Prince Henry the navigator, in which the explorer justified enslaving Africans on account of their skin color. He felt like he needed to say something, as if some little moral tingle in the back of the Princely navigator's mind impelled him to logical, foolproof justification. Before then, all the way from ancient times, folks justified hatred and violence and slavery based not on skin color, but on general cultural characteristics, like: those damned Romans wear funky clothes and eat bullshit and can't sing, so kill em'!... Before Prince Henry, you simply don't see skin color mentioned, ever, because, folks back then were evidently smart enough to assume that everybody has some skin color or other, and um, well......so frigging what? What counted among the ancients were clothing, language, customs, religion, etc.. Racism was invented by modern man to justify slavery, and it took hold more deeply, came into full bloom more completely, deeply, darkly, and strongly..in the good ole USA, than anywhere else, where it remains. America was from its beginning built by slaves, beginning in 1619 when the Jamestown greed heads (who came to america seeking gold, silver, and slaves, not freedom and virtue and Christ) started it......America's wealth, white European-ness, and power, and arrogance are a perfect set up for epidemic racism.... Myth umber two, circulated widely by racist conservatives, is that racism is a thing of the past, that we have utterly eliminated it from america..Do we even bother to talk about this one? (PS:we're as racist as ever, as indicted by arrest, incarceration, and economic data..ask any sociologist)...thirdly....racism, say some white Americans who desperately want to justify their own racism and hatred, "racism works both ways"...this sounds like it makes sense, but in fact, it doesn't, and it is a pernicious lie. Racism is a one way street, starting with whitie, and leading to the darkly pigmented side. Imagine, if you can, that you're black. You have two choices as to why to hate honkies. One choice is, the color of their skin. The second choice is, 246 years of slavery, followed by over one hundred years and counting, of discrimination and Jim Crow and segregation, and now....this...our America, of 2018. Which reason do you choose? Which reason would you CHOOSE? (duh) BE honest. Or, if you happen to be an upper middle class conservative cracker, at least take a stab at thinking, and reasoning...and putting yourself in the place of "those" people.. It'll be hard, but have faith in yourself. After all, haven't you always said that we Americans can do anything we put our minds to? The last but not least misconception people have about racism is that people can be accurately divided into "races", that there are only a few different skin colors, and we all have one, or another of them. Wrong. Fact is, everybody has a unique skin pigmentation, and the concept of "race" is merely a device, a fiction, to enable us to understand, or think we understand the world better. We don't, of course.