Monday, July 15, 2013

So. Let us begin. First Lecture from Professor Joe - "Raw" Racism...

Racism In The First World Countries: The Most Brutal of the Brutal

And Now, a Moment of Literature:

America and Germany were not always equal opportunity and the lands of freedom and liberty we know them (mostly America) as today. Both have historic guilt to contend with.

With Europe, it was the Nazi Party, which has been "erased and obliterated" From European History Texts.

With America, it was Slavery and the KKK, and later, it's deformed cousin, segregation.


These are all rather ugly reminders of a past that was once very real, and a very real historic threat to progress.  But the truth is, for the most part, America never truly shouldered the burden of Europe's problems, and Europe never really shouldered the burden of America's problems. Each continents own brand of indignity and historical contradiction does not belong to the other one. It is not a shared hatred or racism. The flames of racism burn brightest in their native homelands, and to be truly extinguished, they need to be extinguished in their native homelands. Sure everywhere else isn't perfect, but there's few things as obviously out of sync with humanity than racism and bigotry. 

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