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The following quote is lifted from a 1947 report produced by the President's Committee on Civil Rights:
". . . No nation can afford to have its component groups hostile toward one another without feeling the stress. People who live in a state of tension and suspicion cannot use their energy constructively. The frustrations of their restricted existence are translated into aggression against the dominant group . . . It is not at all surprising that a people relegated to second-class citizenship should behave as second-class citizens. This is true, in varying degrees, of all our minorities. What we have lost in money, production, invention, citizenship and leadership as the price for damaged, thwarted personalities--these are beyond estimate. The United States can no longer afford this heavy drain upon its human wealth, its national competence."
The words fit today's America as much, if not more, than they did during Truman's reign. Acting on the report, Truman integrated all military services.
Not since the Civil War has there been such animosity and chaos between fellow Americans, white and black.
Conservatives, like our forum fascist Markle, blame it all on the black culture, including ALL the dead black men and boys who were shot down by white cops.
And liberals pretty much side with Black Americans on the issue of murderous white cops.
The point of this thread and comment is simple: as long as blacks see whites as "them" and vice versa, America loses.
As I recall, Rodney King, recovering from a near fatal beating from Los Angeles cops asked plaintively: "Can't we all just get along?"
Reality.
". . . No nation can afford to have its component groups hostile toward one another without feeling the stress. People who live in a state of tension and suspicion cannot use their energy constructively. The frustrations of their restricted existence are translated into aggression against the dominant group . . . It is not at all surprising that a people relegated to second-class citizenship should behave as second-class citizens. This is true, in varying degrees, of all our minorities. What we have lost in money, production, invention, citizenship and leadership as the price for damaged, thwarted personalities--these are beyond estimate. The United States can no longer afford this heavy drain upon its human wealth, its national competence."
The words fit today's America as much, if not more, than they did during Truman's reign. Acting on the report, Truman integrated all military services.
Not since the Civil War has there been such animosity and chaos between fellow Americans, white and black.
Conservatives, like our forum fascist Markle, blame it all on the black culture, including ALL the dead black men and boys who were shot down by white cops.
And liberals pretty much side with Black Americans on the issue of murderous white cops.
The point of this thread and comment is simple: as long as blacks see whites as "them" and vice versa, America loses.
As I recall, Rodney King, recovering from a near fatal beating from Los Angeles cops asked plaintively: "Can't we all just get along?"
Reality.