How about that? CNN's John Blake provides a nice summary of Murica today.

With some historical context, no less.

President Trump's critics may not like to admit it, but there's an element of truth in the racist tweets he sent this weekend. ... in some ways those four lawmakers -- Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley -- really do belong to another country.

In one America, people react with shock when a President issues vile racist tweets against women lawmakers. In the other America, people say nothing.

In one America, people speak out in protest after a President claims that African, Haitian, and Salvadoran immigrants come from "sh**hole" countries. In the other America, people nod in agreement.

In one America, people become outraged when administration officials snatch migrant children from their mothers' arms and detain them for weeks in filthy conditions with no repercussions. In the other America, people remain silent.

And in one America, people condemn a President for describing protestors alongside neo-Nazis as "very fine people." In the other America, people shrug. ...

These two Americas have long co-existed.

One is the country represented by the Statue of Liberty, and its invitation to poor and tired immigrants "yearning to breathe free."

The other is the one that virtually wiped out Native Americans, enslaved Africans, excluded Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century and put Japanese Americans in concentration camps. ...

To paraphrase another President -- Abraham Lincoln -- we eventually "will become all one thing or all the other."

We can become what one scholar called a "compassionate, multireligious, multiracial democracy."

Or we can become what another called a "hollowed out" democracy, where one ethnic group rules the rest.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/us/trump-tweets-two-americas-blake/index.html

tl;dr Murica Has Sucked ..from its inception, its 'politics' un-informed by Reason or Honesty: perpetuating mobs of the intellectually/emotionally/morally Defective
(That is all one Needs to grok-to-Fullness) to: Understand Murica-2019.

Fresh Air
Colson Whitehead

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead’s new novel, “The Nickel Boys,” is based on the true story of a notorious Florida reform school in the early 60’s, where many boys were beaten and sexually abused. Dozens of unmarked graves were discovered on the school grounds. The state shut down the school in 2011.

..near 50 YEARS to n o t i c e . . . stay silent a few more decades ... ... then umm, ~do-Something.

You'd wear-out {even a sturdy IBM-keyboard of yore} imagining that one person could compile anything like a full-listicle of the baked-in atrocities committed
Within-also-Without The Land of the Free-ish (only-to-be: Shunnned-by-white-folk (diluted by n- Undesirables) who sneaked-in.

(That these atrocities were Original) even under Blighty-rule, as in India; that they persisted, were added-to as the $$-powerful winged it
... is but one facet of this history of Oligarchs over-perpetually-poor conquests, (and Testosterone-over-the disenfranchised-HALF of the vox pop) ..ad nauseum.
Our uncensored history is rife with: how deeply-corrupt have been the average-perps, the barely-$$-powerful: from The Get-Go.
The xenophobia [amidst the %90-ish 'immigrants'-Themselves!] as they sequentially bashed Chinese, Irish (prolly thus Scots too, eh?) et alia.
..all adding our basest-hypocrisy into every Law, Statute (thence pre-lynching-parties for the Uppity).

But what most pisses-off moi is The Fact that: {virtually-every} "CIVICS" Teacher: ELIDED 96.66% of All These Unconscionable attributes of our trash-society,
whilst lauding the cherry-picked beneficent acts. These we-like-to-think Worthy minions Failed in their prime directive:
to Be Honest with their charges (thus to organize in-defense-of-Self: when the inevitable push-backs from the guilty Would occur).
Dumbth? + Cowardice ... an elixier even more awful than ..crab juice+chocolate?

(As to the failings de moi, along the way)?: all have been 'outed' by now: to the Fact that Homo-saps are intrigued by,
love to inhale: their own farts {deny this and ... face artful ridicule, eh?}
;^>

Post #429,847 by mmoffitt 7/16/19 8:23:26 AM 7/16/19 8:23:26 AM Reply	How about that? CNN's John Blake provides a nice summary of Murica today. With some historical context, no less. President Trump's critics may not like to admit it, but there's an element of truth in the racist tweets he sent this weekend. ... in some ways those four lawmakers -- Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley -- really do belong to another country. In one America, people react with shock when a President issues vile racist tweets against women lawmakers. In the other America, people say nothing. In one America, people speak out in protest after a President claims that African, Haitian, and Salvadoran immigrants come from "sh**hole" countries. In the other America, people nod in agreement. In one America, people become outraged when administration officials snatch migrant children from their mothers' arms and detain them for weeks in filthy conditions with no repercussions. In the other America, people remain silent. And in one America, people condemn a President for describing protestors alongside neo-Nazis as "very fine people." In the other America, people shrug. ... These two Americas have long co-existed. One is the country represented by the Statue of Liberty, and its invitation to poor and tired immigrants "yearning to breathe free." The other is the one that virtually wiped out Native Americans, enslaved Africans, excluded Chinese immigrants in the late 19th century and put Japanese Americans in concentration camps. ... To paraphrase another President -- Abraham Lincoln -- we eventually "will become all one thing or all the other." We can become what one scholar called a "compassionate, multireligious, multiracial democracy." Or we can become what another called a "hollowed out" democracy, where one ethnic group rules the rest. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/us/trump-tweets-two-americas-blake/index.html bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #429,849 by Ashton 7/16/19 5:28:37 PM 7/16/19 5:28:37 PM Reply	Addenda as ... the beat goes --> on. tl;dr Murica Has Sucked ..from its inception, its 'politics' un-informed by Reason or Honesty: perpetuating mobs of the intellectually/emotionally/morally Defective (That is all one Needs to grok-to-Fullness) to: Understand Murica-2019. Fresh Air Colson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead’s new novel, “The Nickel Boys,” is based on the true story of a notorious Florida reform school in the early 60’s, where many boys were beaten and sexually abused. Dozens of unmarked graves were discovered on the school grounds. The state shut down the school in 2011. ..near 50 YEARS to n o t i c e . . . stay silent a few more decades ... ... then umm, ~do-Something. You'd wear-out {even a sturdy IBM-keyboard of yore} imagining that one person could compile anything like a full-listicle of the baked-in atrocities committed Within-also-Without The Land of the Free-ish (only-to-be: Shunnned-by-white-folk (diluted by n- Undesirables) who sneaked-in. (That these atrocities were Original) even under Blighty-rule, as in India; that they persisted, were added-to as the $$-powerful winged it ... is but one facet of this history of Oligarchs over-perpetually-poor conquests, (and Testosterone-over-the disenfranchised-HALF of the vox pop) ..ad nauseum. Our uncensored history is rife with: how deeply-corrupt have been the average-perps, the barely-$$-powerful: from The Get-Go. The xenophobia [amidst the %90-ish 'immigrants'-Themselves!] as they sequentially bashed Chinese, Irish (prolly thus Scots too, eh?) et alia. ..all adding our basest-hypocrisy into every Law, Statute (thence pre-lynching-parties for the Uppity). But what most pisses-off moi is The Fact that: {virtually-every} "CIVICS" Teacher: ELIDED 96.66% of All These Unconscionable attributes of our trash-society, whilst lauding the cherry-picked beneficent acts. These we-like-to-think Worthy minions Failed in their prime directive: to Be Honest with their charges (thus to organize in-defense-of-Self: when the inevitable push-backs from the guilty Would occur). Dumbth? + Cowardice ... an elixier even more awful than ..crab juice+chocolate? (As to the failings de moi, along the way)?: all have been 'outed' by now: to the Fact that Homo-saps are intrigued by, love to inhale: their own farts {deny this and ... face artful ridicule, eh?} ;^>
Post #429,851 by boxley 7/16/19 9:09:28 PM 7/16/19 9:09:28 PM Reply	send him with $100 to haiti for a month, see if he changes his mind :-) "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman

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