Thanks for setting me straight re your old article I will send my email.
There is a new book out "slavery by another name", haven;t read it but
listened to author. He documents the continued efforts to enslave
black americans with phony charges and work camp prisons up to the30s
or 40s. heartbreaking. slavery still very much exists, most
disturbingly in the sex trade of children.
while i hear that americans have fought against it, i still don't
think the average american appreciates the horror that existed in this
country for african people. it is often hard for humans to admit our
participation in something so egregious. we are a human family, and
my american family did commit crimes against african people. no idea
what the best thing to do about it but deny its impact is not it. i
have listened to a number of people claim no responsibility, no
appreciation.
then...what to do about the victim mentality that drives individuals
to see discrimination where it does not exist?
ultimately it seems to me that racism/sexism/homophobia/Speciesism and
any other stance we take that sees another as "other" than us, me etc
is a spiritual ignorance (and pretty scientific seeing as we are all
in the same ecosystem).
I am pretty guilty of making fun of behaviors that i find
offensive...gross materialism, fear of the poor, classism, the
assumption we should all be living the married procreating life,
hummer drivers, chicks with plastic surgery blah blah blah..so i am
failing to recognize the light of the universe in all as well.
i tell myself that my discrimination is better than that based on what
is unchangeable, like skin color, orientation, gender...but am i
kidding myself?
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