I think, for most of us, or at least many of us, the challenge is that we cannot read a thing like that Time article. And it leaves me wondering just WHO the article actually reached. Would the activist class have read it, even to confirm their bias? Probably not - they don't need it. And that leaves a great many of us (awakened) Normals, who see it as the same boring drivel they've dished up for a half century now. Thanks for taking one for the team!
I spent my 1st 12 years in a small agricultural town in central Washington. I had no exposure to or understanding of the black community. We moved to Phoenix in 1963 and I started to see how different people are but I still had no exposure to the non Caucasian world. We moved to the Phoenix suburb of Glendale in 1964 and that was when I first saw Japanese, Chinese, Hispanic and Negro people, outside of TV or movies! There wasn't any obvious animosity amongst the groups. We were kids. The guys mostly worried about the draft and keeping their grades up to avoid it. That and sports. And girls. There were no gangs. There was no racism on my high school campus. The homecoming king was a black quarterback in a school with a dozen black people. They were all good people. My sister started at the same high school in 1974 and had a completely different experience. She got beat up by black girls because the black guys liked her! She was a cheer leader! There were gangs. 60 years later, it is a predominantly Hispanic and Black high school. White flight changed the neighborhood completely. I'm not sure there's any legislation that will help change the mentality that grew out of those years. Drugs certainly had a lot to do with it and the changes in the core family. Those things can only be resolved from within.
I think, for most of us, or at least many of us, the challenge is that we cannot read a thing like that Time article. And it leaves me wondering just WHO the article actually reached. Would the activist class have read it, even to confirm their bias? Probably not - they don't need it. And that leaves a great many of us (awakened) Normals, who see it as the same boring drivel they've dished up for a half century now. Thanks for taking one for the team!
I spent my 1st 12 years in a small agricultural town in central Washington. I had no exposure to or understanding of the black community. We moved to Phoenix in 1963 and I started to see how different people are but I still had no exposure to the non Caucasian world. We moved to the Phoenix suburb of Glendale in 1964 and that was when I first saw Japanese, Chinese, Hispanic and Negro people, outside of TV or movies! There wasn't any obvious animosity amongst the groups. We were kids. The guys mostly worried about the draft and keeping their grades up to avoid it. That and sports. And girls. There were no gangs. There was no racism on my high school campus. The homecoming king was a black quarterback in a school with a dozen black people. They were all good people. My sister started at the same high school in 1974 and had a completely different experience. She got beat up by black girls because the black guys liked her! She was a cheer leader! There were gangs. 60 years later, it is a predominantly Hispanic and Black high school. White flight changed the neighborhood completely. I'm not sure there's any legislation that will help change the mentality that grew out of those years. Drugs certainly had a lot to do with it and the changes in the core family. Those things can only be resolved from within.
As long as focusing on without draws more attention than any fix from within, nothing will change. It will likely just get worse.
True with any problem of that nature!