drunkle: Except gold’s post(s) were not solely consumed with the issue of race. I have been arguing just that point the entire time. I don’t find the term “nigger lover” a cop-out comment. I believe you misread the point gold was making regarding the extreme left’s purblindness regarding color and “blackness” (meaning, not the color, but the culture, i.e. Kwanzaa).
I don’t shrug off racism, and never have. Having been both an athlete and a soldier, I believe in meritocracy, not advancement through color, or money, or social position. Unfortunately, “The Golden Rule” (Those with the Gold make the Rules) holds sway. I don’t condone raping or pillaging, either. Being both German and Catholic, I have enough of that in my history to ever condone it.
marion: People are tribal by nature. History, anthropology and sociology all confirm this. I might have done a poor job of attempting that point in ascribing it to human nature, but people in general hew to the familiar and fear the unfamiliar.
