Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
A local high school baseball team has been benched because some of its members insisted on rising again.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to exact its toll and poison our polity.
Afterthought:
That some of the team members are racist does not surprise me.
After all, racism is an American creation. Specifically, the belief that one race is somehow inferior to another and therefore can legitimately be subjugated and exploited is a construct created in the British colonies in America during the 17th Century to justify rationalize excuse chattel slavery. From there, it spread to everywhere Europeans established colonies during the Age of Empire.
I am, however, somewhat disturbed by how willing persons are today to flaunt their racism before others, over half a century after the passage of the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s.
Why, one wonders, do they think it has become okay to take their hate-full-ness public.
(Yes, I have my theories.)
