[JimSEA]

America and the world is yet a cauldron of racial and religious hatred. Every racial and cultural group in the world hates someone. American Blacks have in many instances taken up the same arguments once raised by Whites to justify their own superiority. Right now some of the underlying problems in the Middle East are tribal antagonisms. American segregation was just another such conflict and, if allowed, Whites would revert back to their former apartheid. Interracial harmony is the exception, not the rule. Ironically, since everyone tries to justify their own superiority, everyone demonstrates their equality on some basis.

The legal basis for Segregation was rotten. Plessy v. Fergueson, 1896, was the pivotal equal protection case and was patently absurd. The odyssey of James Meredith had fare more to due with plane old hatred, veiled with legalistic mumbo jumbo, than with anything else.

[Nextrush]

The world has changed but the political intrigues surrounding those changes take us off the moral plane.

Politicians in 1957 and 1962 wanted to look good and the moral considerations got buried in the mire.

The leftist and radical elements of change were fully on display in the 1960’s.

We even had Bayard Rustin, civil rights advocate, Communist, associate of Martin Luther King and men’s room arrestee. That’s right, soliciting in a men’s room. A Larry Craig in his time.

Rustin was described in 1963 by Robert F. Kennedy, then attorney general as a “pink fairy.”

There’s more to the story than anyone’s moral platitudes about racism, “hate” and or segregation.

The first Ten Commandments have enough to say that should cause us not to be racist, but there is no 11th Commandment “Thou shalt not be a racist” that stands above the first ten in value.