The Race Ticket
Reason truly does struggle with passion in the most civilized of countries. At least one assumes that the United States qualifies as an eminently civilized nation. The American Constitution purports to portray itself as the blueprint for civilization. Equality of personhood took a long time in coming to the United States, however.
And with the election of a black American elevated to the President of the United States, it seemed, finally, that the world was witnessing a social revolution.
Racial discrimination is a hard battle to fight and a harder one to win. There remains within the United States, a sizeable proportion of the population outraged that the civil rights movement was successful to the degree that it was, and that the monumental attitudinal change that led to the election of a black American president of the United States of America came to reality.
The undercurrent of suspicion and hatred is becoming more palpable as time goes by.
Conspiracy theorists wrack their bigoted brains to 'prove' that Barack Hussein Obama is not the Christian he presents himself to be but rather practises the religion of his forbears on the spear side. As a Muslim he would not necessarily be disqualified, but he would most certainly not have won the vote that brought him to the presidency.
As a biracial man whose birth took place outside the U.S. - say Kenya, for example - he would have been disqualified from the leadership race.
His detractors both clumsily and hatefully portray him as a non-American by birth, a Muslim by heritage and tradition, and a socialist in a country for which the term represents all that is wrong that his presidency has been successful in legislating into law.
With its frontier mentality, its gun-owning 'right' amendment enshrined in the Constitution, and God-fearing Christian fundamentalism in the majority, the resentment against President Obama is incendiary and unappeasable.
Where once the world looked on admiringly at what they took to be a new America, the tired and tedious race ticket is back on the menu, brooking no good for the future of the country.
And with the election of a black American elevated to the President of the United States, it seemed, finally, that the world was witnessing a social revolution.
Racial discrimination is a hard battle to fight and a harder one to win. There remains within the United States, a sizeable proportion of the population outraged that the civil rights movement was successful to the degree that it was, and that the monumental attitudinal change that led to the election of a black American president of the United States of America came to reality.
The undercurrent of suspicion and hatred is becoming more palpable as time goes by.
Conspiracy theorists wrack their bigoted brains to 'prove' that Barack Hussein Obama is not the Christian he presents himself to be but rather practises the religion of his forbears on the spear side. As a Muslim he would not necessarily be disqualified, but he would most certainly not have won the vote that brought him to the presidency.
As a biracial man whose birth took place outside the U.S. - say Kenya, for example - he would have been disqualified from the leadership race.
His detractors both clumsily and hatefully portray him as a non-American by birth, a Muslim by heritage and tradition, and a socialist in a country for which the term represents all that is wrong that his presidency has been successful in legislating into law.
With its frontier mentality, its gun-owning 'right' amendment enshrined in the Constitution, and God-fearing Christian fundamentalism in the majority, the resentment against President Obama is incendiary and unappeasable.
Where once the world looked on admiringly at what they took to be a new America, the tired and tedious race ticket is back on the menu, brooking no good for the future of the country.
Labels: Human Relations, Realities, religion, United States
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