Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : GAMGEE
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun Jun 08 2025 10:47 am
> DW> I am not sure there is a solution, at least not one that the government
> DW> would come up with. IMHO, it would be best remedied if persons could
> DW> stop looking at the color or sex of an individual and base everything
> DW> on their merits but, in practice, I am not sure humans are capable of
> DW> doing so.
> Absolutely right, but I agree that it's likely not possible. What isn't
> right is to have people/taxpayers pay money to people who are
> generations removed from anybody who was mistreated. "Correcting" a
> wrong by committing another wrong is not the way.
Part of me feels that way, that they are generations removed. However,
there is some belief in this country that the "wrongs" continued far beyond
the Civil War. I would agree that they certainly continued until at least
the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s.
What has happened since then, until recently, I would place at the feet of
our politicians (Democrats, too) who've spent their time benefiting from
having a "downtrodden" class to manipulate... a class you cannot manipulate
if they do not remain downtrodden.
Recently, it seems that pre-1960s attitudes are being brought back into the
mainstream. Not sure what has brought that on but it does need to stop.
