Posted by
OldRelayer on Monday, October 22, 2007 7:39:42 PM
One of the few things I have taken along with me since my days as a
Democrat in the 60’s and early 70’s are strong feeling about Social
Injustice. Hard to believe all these years later we still see
blatant examples of things that should never be. This is not
limited to the plight of the black man in our society but it sure is
the most egregious of all. Enslaving a whole race because of
their national heritage it doesn’t get any worse than that in our
country and this was done and condoned by many of our founding
fathers. It doesn’t cancel out all the great things they did but
it sure detracts from them a bit. Thomas Jefferson writing
“all men are created equal” was the holder of slaves until just before
his death. A bit of a hypocrisy but to discredit all the great
things that Jefferson accomplished would be a misjustice to
history. I had been thinking we have made some good progress and most
of the issues are now leadership problems in the black community, which
is an obvious problem. But today I saw Bigotry still lives and it
still stinks up everyplace that it exist.
There are many examples of black men and woman rising above their
perceived station in life. Clarence Thomas who should be a beacon
of hope for advancement of our country to a place of healing and
forgiveness. Is hated for reasons to long for this blog, by both
the Black and white communities. I have just finished his
book, no white man would want to trade places with Thomas but he
has risen to great achievement in spite of all efforts to keep him down
mostly by his own people but not exclusively. This is an issue
because his book is being widely read and I am happy to say I have read
this excellent autobiography.
I like reading the feature articles on TownHall.com and when I feel I
have something to contribute I will make a comment. Today was not
a good day. I only made comment on two articles and found myself in a
fire fight on both, but I will only discuss one here. The article
was about CTs book. My comment was rather innocuous just stating
I had read the book and how much I admired how his grandparents raised
him under very difficult circumstances. Not only was I attacked
but everyone that had a positive comment was by two or three, I think
you might call them Liberal Bigots. I should not have gotten
involved and ignored it, as I would normally do, but I was grumpy this
morning and found myself in a full fledged fire fight. I was so
mad at myself, because there is no winning in this kind of
situation. I reflected how just a few minutes during this day I
was attacked and how bad it felt. I then jumped to people that
endure this their entire life. It then struck me we have not come
nearly as far as I thought and a sadness came over me. For all
its outward signs of prosperity this country is imploding.
Government expanding exponentially, almost half the people want to
close their eyes to what is going on in the world and think they can
still be isolationist.... blah.... blah.... blah.... and bigotry
from those still fighting the civil war because they don’t like the
outcome. I hope tomorrow is a better day, today is pretty
much ruined.