A Single Sentence On Racism, Guns, and Apple Pie
Just as apples are baked into the all American pie, racism and guns are baked into the American Constitution by way of the Second Amendment:
Just as apples are baked into the all American pie, racism and guns are baked into the American Constitution by way of the Second Amendment:
08/07/2019 @ 8:25 am
No question.
In the modern era, Rs got religion abt guns (wanting more in many, many more white hands) when Mr Governor Reagan became emotionally stripped bare when Mr Newton and Mr Seale showed organisational ability.
08/07/2019 @ 8:46 am
When the appropriate question was why Newton and Seale felt the need to organize. This reminds me so much of reaction to President Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, saying God damn America from the pulpit. What a terrible thing. But the guy was a Marine. What can bring a Marine to the point of saying that? Like Professor Claude says, it’s about shielding nonexistent innocence. These things don’t happen in a vacuum. Condemning radicals out of hand makes no sense until you ask what radicalized them. That kind of radicalism is a symptom, it’s a canary in the coal mine, it’s a warning that something is egregiously inconsistent. Someone is getting the short end of the stick in a way that our system should in theory not allow, and the fundamental problem is not the reaction to getting the short end of the stick, it’s that we allow the short end of the stick to be gotten in the first place.
I am not talking about inequality of wealth here. This is not about communism. I am talking about inequality of access and inequality of protection, both legal and social. As a liberal, this is what I view as the greatest evil. Our morality is ultimately a function of how level the playing field is. That is liberalism in one sentence.