I think tearing down things gives some instantaneous and quick satisfaction, like they are taking a higher moral ground or something like that. The truth is 'tearing down' is a substitute for not owning to the fact that 'racism' is part and parcel of the American DNA and rearranging one's prejudices is not an answer.
Trump as racist and xenophobic as he is did not create 'Racism', he exasperated it, but you can't exasperate what is not there.
God Bless The United States of Amnesia.
The story of Charlottesville is the story of America renewed purge in supporting fascism. Some of us noticed that and took umbrage to that when the US political establishment supported the neo-fascist movement in Ukraine and that if memory serves me correctly was during yet another US President, Barack Obama. Mr. Obama irresponsible and short sighted policy in fact empowered and encouraged the alt-right agenda and philosophy.
I am not transferring blames of course, Obama was a ghost of Christmas past and Trump is our new nightmare reality, I am just saying that most of those who are up in arms about American's fascist attitude in Charlottesville were snoozing when their political establishment under management of their Prodigal 'liberal' Son supported it in far away land of Ukraine.
What I am getting at is that we cannot support the power brokers of white supremacy in Ukraine or elsewhere internationally and then bend out of shape when there is a lack of mobilization in opposing the crude and overt white supremacists in Charlottesville.
What I am saying is that we can't have likes of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, David Cameron, etc., etc. support the crude superiority of Western civilization under cloak of Liberalism and Left and get pissed off when it rises in streets of America.
Foreign Policy is almost always Domestic and the inconvenient truth is; as far as I remember the right-wing policies have been enacted into law by both Democrats and Republicans at every level of government.
We are as good as our institutions and what we saw in Charlottesville, VA stems from this invisible white supremacist ideology which has been inculcated into our cultural and educational institutions.
20 Aug 2017 - Susan Nevens
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