Isabel Wilkerson says "In America, race is the primary tool and the visible decoy, the front man, for caste. Race does the heavy lifting for a caste system that demands a means of human division." (p.18 of her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents)
And the biggest prejudice is misogyny. Without women's uncounted labor, men would have to do a lot if necessary work assigned to women.
The last two losing Presidential candidates were highly qualified women. They didn't lose to a highly qualified man. They lost to a charlatan con man with a 40 year history of business failures.
We are now seeing the mechanism by which he failed.
Those who can should watch the Netflix documentaries Bad Faith and/or God and Country. Race has never left the atmosphere in the United States. It has been a poison from the very founding of this nation. It seemingly drops out of sight only to reappear like a cancer on our national soul.
Maybe with Trump we will finally reach the point of knowing that only major surgery will cut the poison out. Even then the nation must be on chemo (spiritual) therapy for the life of the nation.
I believe that the tottering, mortally wounded beast of male WASP-ism is flailing violently and hurtfully in its last gasps; but will continue to stoop to the lowest and basest behavior to avenge its demise. Wreckage will be left behind for a hopeful fellowship of survivors to clean up, sores, hurts and grievances to be assuaged and rebuilding of love to be commenced under a merciful God.
Isabel Wilkerson says "In America, race is the primary tool and the visible decoy, the front man, for caste. Race does the heavy lifting for a caste system that demands a means of human division." (p.18 of her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents)
And the biggest prejudice is misogyny. Without women's uncounted labor, men would have to do a lot if necessary work assigned to women.
The last two losing Presidential candidates were highly qualified women. They didn't lose to a highly qualified man. They lost to a charlatan con man with a 40 year history of business failures.
We are now seeing the mechanism by which he failed.
Those who can should watch the Netflix documentaries Bad Faith and/or God and Country. Race has never left the atmosphere in the United States. It has been a poison from the very founding of this nation. It seemingly drops out of sight only to reappear like a cancer on our national soul.
Maybe with Trump we will finally reach the point of knowing that only major surgery will cut the poison out. Even then the nation must be on chemo (spiritual) therapy for the life of the nation.
I believe that the tottering, mortally wounded beast of male WASP-ism is flailing violently and hurtfully in its last gasps; but will continue to stoop to the lowest and basest behavior to avenge its demise. Wreckage will be left behind for a hopeful fellowship of survivors to clean up, sores, hurts and grievances to be assuaged and rebuilding of love to be commenced under a merciful God.
I have lived with racism all my life. You remind me to try to deal with it in the time I have left.
Amen