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White People Are Hopeless

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 Sometimes admitting to your situation is cathartic and insightful, other times it is this… Photo by   Gabe Pierce   on  Unsplash . Originally published on Medium . . You may think I have given up on White people by the content of this article’s title. Before I answer that question in my on way, I wanted to provide Whites the ability to redeem themselves. I cannot say this will be an easy task, but I am sure you will consider it with an open heart, fertile mind, and an accepting embrace of the truth of your sorry judgement, lack of positive engagement, and for your personal worsening of our skin color predicament. . First, I must say.   Wow, Whitey!   You are commended for taking all that on so willingly. It is   almost   like White antiracist hopefulness is ascendant… While fabricating this wholly inaccurate mirage is repulsive, it gives me the same ignorance of bliss feeling that our racist commissions and omissions have for hundreds of years.   Shoot!   We even let our supposed chri

Inequality Literally Hurts Americans, and Definitely Harms Our Democracy.

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 Raising our ideals higher. Photo by   Cristina Gottardi   on   Unsplash . Originally published on Medium . . History tells us inequality is a main reason for the collapse of civilizations, or any massive social disruption.   The Roman Empire , and the   nation states of ancient Greece , were forever battling their cases of undulating generational inequality. Their aristocrats continually amassed all the wealth, then ran into major problems with the   lower   classes. Class warfare was the common result of such wealth concentration bubbles. Hostilities over inequality only ended when a decent amount of leveling imploded the extremes. . Economic conservatives are always touting “free” markets as if they   free   up everything for the perfect meritocracy Olympic Games.   Survival-of-the-fittest   is also trotted out as the reason for determining who should   win,   and who should   lose . That nothing else really matters, and government should not protect its citizens from the lives-thr

My Magnum Opus & Eeyore Essay 3.27

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Photo by   Gene Gallin   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . . Once we have our   successful   insurrection… Republicans will fully show how   little   we think blue lines, codes, or lives matter. . Nothing can be explained or solved by science… Until a Republican pollster analyzes it. . There is something contradictory in GOP water… Republicans say Biden and school teachers are   too cautious   about COVID, the same political party that says COVID is like the flu, masks do not work, herd immunity happens after everyone who is susceptible to COVID dies from it (actually that one is true, but f’ing ghoulish), that visiting in crowded bars is good for the   economy   of casket makers (again that one is true, but disturbing and ghastly),… Biden seeks tenuous balance on school reopening and variant threats - KVIA When officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that they were relaxing the… kvia.com . Social science is not real science… Like Repu