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Photo by   Paul Hanaoka   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . . White privilege is a hard topic for many people to accept, or fully understand. Republicans and others will see it as some kind of political correctness, liberal woke claptrap, or even   treasonous . Yes,   treasonous . That is because it denigrates many a Republicans’ pristine notions about the nation’s founders as well as White-privilege influenced societal structures still in place today. Such American Exceptionalism zealotry destroys our ability to achieve qualitative introspection and self analysis, that is a prerequisite for making effective changes. Why do we White people get our undies in-a-bunch when someone says we have White privilege?   The simple answer is fear. We fear it may be true, and that we cannot see it, which means we are ignorant and blind to something. Second, privilege is associated with income, wealth, and-or societal status. This implied association with signif...

Photo by   thom masat   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . . Racism is not just a few bad apples problem. America’s barrel of Whiteys rotted through and through centuries ago. Some so-called   christian   denominations even sanctified the rottenness.   Why do so many of these white birds of preying on people of color flock together?   Never a decade where the chains were not on, or White backlash was not meting out its conscious, and subconscious bias, societal concussions. There is something about protecting White turf, so deeply corrupted that it comes out as rude, vile, and hateful racism. Worse yet, the atrocious   justification   for spewing such hate is deeply rooted in White culture, and the racist policies and practices it has feathered its bed with. Harvard professor Henry L. Gates Jr. arrested outside his home, calls police 'racist' Red-faced Cambridge officials dropped what they called "regrettable" charges against Harvard'...

  Photo by   Mathew Schwartz   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . It is wrong to call a White person racist when you don’t know if it is in their heart, mind, or bones. I am Trudy sorry. But did I… At least …Hit a nerve? . Hypocritical Republicans generate insanely severe taxing scheme… Reading crazy conspiracies and other conservative claptrap taxes the brain of persons who think logically, and use facts to undergird understanding. . Yeah. Maybe there is extreme inequality in the world, even in America… That doesn’t mean you need to focus on it enough to see how badly it hurts people every, single, fucking, day. The Broken Ladder Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological… www.audible.com . When a Republican says the debt is too high… Ask them, then why are T-Bills (or Treasury notes)   always   the safest investment? . To have everything explained, even quantum physic...

Photo by   Thomas Curryer   on  Unsplash . . First published on Medium . . The French Revolution ended in death and destruction, then decades of on and off authoritarian monarchs, emperors, and others, oh my! The 1960s slid into Tricky Dick’s downfall, Swans Singing for Vietnam debacle, Disco, Ronnie Reagan, mass incarceration, welfare deformation, W’s Iraq War, and finally Traitor Donnie Trump, a boar bore. Of course, conservatives like to blame the 1960s on other occurrences and changes in society over the last five decades. That said, if we compare what the baby boomers did to what inspired the French Revolution, we can see both clearer. . Obviously, guillotines were never employed during the mid 20th century in the United States. Yet, there was a national, and more intensely, racially construed and pursued,   law and order   clamp down , during and after the riots in Watts, around passage of the civil rights acts, due to Martin Luther King’s murder, and prot...