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Originally Posted by smooth
.......Our civil rights era just started kicking as little as 50 years ago. Are you people so young that your parents or grandparents weren't DIRECTLY involved in personal and structural racism?.......
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smooth, I was tempted, but they really, really, really, really seem to "know what they know"....complete with the denial of the reality of who the poorest and most disadvantaged in the US are......and why that is the case.....vs. the fact that ALWAYS.....at least 90 percent of US fortune 500 CEOs and most of the political leaders in the federal government, are WASP males
Anyway, good of you to try to persuade that the opposite of what most here posted, is more accurate, more fair, more just. How can you ask people to consider the wrongs that their parents and grandparents committed against fellow countrymen, and other peoples of the world, when they see not the wrongs that they themselves are committing every day?
Do 6 percent of the world's population, have the right to take 25 percent of the total daily petroleum output, using borrowed money, bidding up the price of that petroleum, with the net effect of making the price of that fuel, even for essential uses such as cooking and for producing cheaper and more plentiful food, so high that it is out of reach to the majority of the rest of the world's inhabitants?
How much better would the lives of the world's poorest be, if US residents consumed only the average daily petroleum that is used by the average western European?
We don't see cause and effect, we don't want to think about it, and we don't come here to be reminded about specifics by misguided liberals, because we know what we know!