Posted on 10/18/2016 7:52:58 AM PDT by shortstop
The challenge of racial division in America today is not just that there are forces pushing us apart, but that we've lost the things that held us together.
Relations between black people and white people are probably at their worst in anyone's lifetime, with most of those divisions exacerbated dramatically in the last handful of years.
The reasons for that have more to do with the manipulation of racial animosity than the reality of the racial situation. Politicians and activists, each standing to benefit by pitting people against one another, have whipped up an internal and seemingly unresolvable conflict between blacks and whites. Some get votes and power out of the discord, others get grants and publicity. Altogether, the society weakens and strains.
It is an evil, partisan manipulation that poses the greatest threat to our national union since the Civil War. It declares an inherent racism that is neither identifiable nor fixable, yet which drives like a wedge into the society, creating an insatiable anger that leads to an uncertain future.
The forces of division are strong.
And the bonds of traditional unity are weak.
That may be the most dangerous aspect of all this.
America has always been a nation of different types of people. Comprised of folks from around the world, and of regions from across the country, there have been many different types of Americans.
But those Americans have always had common ground. There has always been a place where we have been the same, and had the same interests.
Most commonly, that place of binding has been in our common patriotism and Christianity.
Certainly, there have always been Americans who weren't Christian, and who didn't love the country. But they have been few and marginal. In the main, the United States -- across all its peoples and priorities -- has been a nation of common belief in God and of common love of country.
That has certainly been true across racial lines.
Black people and white people have been great patriots, serving valiantly in each of America's conflicts and grasping firmly to the Founders' ever-perfecting vision of liberty and equality. Likewise, black people and white people have been great Christians, rearing churches of every sort and kneeling before a God who created, loved and saved them all.
No matter the differences, black Americans and white Americans had two defining similarities -- they stood for God and country.
Those two bonds -- patriotism and faith -- held through stresses and bound through hard times. Not even Jim Crow could pry them loose.
But today those two traits are scorned by progressive orthodoxy and the harsh dictates of political correctness. Both Christianity and patriotism are seen as forms of bigotry and xenophobia.
To believe in Christianity, the progressive rationale goes, is to disrespect Islam, gay people and disbelievers. Love of country is a type of racism and superiority against foreigners and their cultures. To self-identify as a Christian and a patriot, in progressive America, is to self-identify as a hater.
And so Christianity is pushed from the public square. Increasingly, even its private practice is challenged -- ask any church fearing it will be forced to put in a transgender bathroom or sanction gay marriages. A slight sense of moral and intellectual inferiority is ascribed to Christians, particularly those who are Bible based.
And on the issue of patriotism, the current wave of kneeling during the national anthem is a visible sign that disrespecting patriotism is respecting black rights. The implication is clear -- patriotic symbols and expressions are signs of white racism and the oppression of blacks. America's defining symbol -- the flag -- is not to be honored as it is only a token of the "systemic racism" declared by the president and his party.
Before long, the American flag will be beside the Confederate flag as a cursed symbol of black oppression by whites.
Further, the notion of patriotism -- also defined as a moral and intellectual inferiority -- is mocked by the political correctness and progressive orthodoxy that declares we are citizens of the world. National borders and national identities are erased, and heritage is denounced.
America specifically, the great oppressor, is denounced.
And the glue is weakened.
Americans used to love their God, one another, and their country.
Increasingly today, none of those things are true.
And the sad consequences are just beginning to roll out.
and soon, we’ll lose that thin veneer of civility . .
The Democrat Party, lead by Hillary, is a criminal enterprise. It she is elected they will use every organ of the state to suppress dissent. They will try to turn the US into a single party state.
To put things in context.
List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States
This happened to Ancient Rome—and Rome Fell.
America has always been a nation of different types of people. Comprised of folks from around the world
NOT TRUE
This is liberal propaganda that has been embraced by the Cuckservatives.
For most of American history, America was almost entirely populated by white Europeans, with a small percentage of blacks.
It's just in the past few decades that Americans started seeing weirdos from all over the world show up.
I am as sick of hearing this propaganda as you are.
For later reading.
Oh, and there IS an extraterrestrial brilliance behind this transformational process ... satan is named in the Bible, but that book too is being marginalized to the point of 'non-essential literature', to effectively cut off GOD's Words from the soul who are perishing. It cannot go on much longer ...
We’re all Americans and we need each other. We’re in this together.
It’s our job to rebuild community and the social fabric. the “progressives” are only going to try to tear it up even more. Once they do that, they can replace it with their preferred social structure, one in which everything flows to them and you and I are simply worker drones who are owned by them, lock, stock, and barrel.
That’s what “national health care” is really about.
It is the deliberate division of society into various competing demographic tribes, with Democrats’ identity politics saying members of X, Y and Z groups must be Democrats to be real members of the group. For the other groups allowed to be Republicans, your membership as a Democrat simply means you’ve proven your smart, tolerant, educated, good, rational - and lets Democrats smear all conservatives as stupid, irrational, evil, or at best, “you’d agree with me and join us if you heard about us”.
“Boys lied about their age to enlist and fight for America.”
My father did that in WWII 15 years old.
No way I’ll let my son go fight Hillary’s war.
Let the “suburban college age women” go fight.
There is a thought. Send a few million 20 something women off to fight in a war. The survivors would certainly come home changed. Sort of a reversal of Old Aristophanies.
“There is a thought. Send a few million 20 something women off to fight in a war. The survivors would certainly come home changed. Sort of a reversal of Old Aristophanies.”
Here’s another thought or two:
If Hillary wins she will get us into a war.
Who goes and fights wars?
Patriotic white males.
Who is Hillary’s biggest enemy on this planet?
Patriotic white males.
She’ll get us into a war and won’t even try to win.
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