There Will Be No Honest Talk About Race
It cannot happen because people cannot help themselves.
If you want to understand why we will move on from this issue without resolution just like the nation moves on from so many other difficult issues, just consider Louie Giglio. The man is highly respected, well regarded across racial lines, a prolific Christian author, and a humanitarian. He also is being shamed for daring to try to have an honest conversation about race with LaCrae, a Christian rapper.
Giglio tried to make a point that no one who says they want an honest conversation could oppose. He said slavery is a curse and white people treated that curse as a blessing. If they don’t want to use the phrase “white privilege” they should consider “white blessing” because inarguably white people were blessed (not in a religious sense) by the oppression of black people — white society profited and benefited from the oppression and got ahead of black society by keeping black society oppressed.
You, like I, may cringe at the word choice “white blessing” as much as we do at “white privilege,” but you cannot mistake his point and it is one a lot of people would agree with and a lot of people would say more white people should acknowledge.
Instead, Giglio is being shamed. You can hear him in full context and see the shaming via tweet with this:
Notably, the same woman is outraged that Giglio apologized, but did so to a “white” reporter at the Washington Post who happens to write on the religion beat in America and his highly respected within religious circles.
While this is all happening, the political left is set to further purge American society of symbols it finds racist like statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yes, in Massachusetts, there are calls to tear down a Lincoln statute.
If you want to have honest conversations about race in America, shaming people for trying to have those talks by using words and phrases you don’t like is exactly why it won’t happen.
This is very much like the gun control debate. We have a mass shooting at an elementary school and people demand we have an honest conversation, but then insist the only solution is confiscation of guns. A whole lot of gun owners aren’t going to keep talking when the solution is already decided by a leftwing mob.
At this point, a lot of people are going to get the hint that the only people willing to have honest conversations about race are suckers about to get destroyed by the mob for daring to engage. Seeing what is happening to Louie Giglio will be all the confirmation they need.
Americans do need honest conversations — but purges and shaming can’t be concurrent to those conversations if you want honest ones.
The bull shit has become so political that resolution will never be achieved, despite what many Americans think and feel. All you pun dents have taken the Black Lives Matter to such a Political Level that reason is no longer available nor wanted. There will be no resolution now, when Politics is involved, nothing matters but Politics. It never ends and the bull will continue. Thank you CNN and all the Bull Shit News and Entertainment industry ( Read China) and News has become entertainment.
As for the (Supreme Court), I have no reason to know who named that Political 3rd Leg as SUPREME. It has become so Political, that the Constitution , might as well be placed in a vault. To be opened only when the Supreme Court/ Politicians, finds it convenient for themselves.
As for the Supreme Court Judge: John Roberts. Correct me if I am mistaken but wasn't he the Final vote that allowed the Un-Affordable Care Act to remain? Now he is the deciding vote that has authorized another Obama plan called D.A.C.A. Gee, isn't that just wonderful. Why not just have the " John Roberts, Supreme Court allow Illegal the Right to Vote?, Heck, They are here, Why not make them Citizens? 14 Democrat Held States have! Care to Vote, Have Welfare, Medical all paid for by we Born, in the Country Citizens and includes the Legals that did their due diligence and became citizens. We pay, and pay, and pay.
I do not wish to sound like a Poor Me. But I am beginning to feel that, the more I do, the less I get. The more I earn, The less I get. Pretty soon, we will be nothing but one big Government!
I have conflicted feelings about the removal of statues, but I do have to agree that the statue of Lincoln depicting a Black man kneeling at his feet doesn't sit well with me.
Tim Kaine isn't helping when he asserts that the US didn't inherit slavery but created it. I hope what he means is that the US instituted slavery - like many other nations before it. But, who knows anymore; as you say the hope of having an honest conversation is quickly vanishing.