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Prostitute Reclaims Virginity: America’s “Equality”

From the Washington Post, American “equality” continues to evolve.

“Edward Blum, whose lawsuit prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the use of racial preferences in college admissions, targeted the Fearless Fund in early August, claiming it engaged in “explicit racial exclusion” by operating a grant program “open only to Black females.” The lawsuit — which asked the court to prevent the fund from selecting its next round of grant winners — is one of the most prominent in a flurry of recent lawsuits and legal claims by conservative activists aimed at applying the Supreme Court’s insistence on race-blind college admissions practices to the corporate sphere of hiring, contracting and investment.”

Medicynical Note: America is like the proverbial prostitute who after many years on the street decides that after all she is a virgin.

America had 300 years of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and separate but unequal laws that were aided and abetted by it’s legal system, including its (not so) Supreme Court and “constitution.” Now with incredible chutzpah, America piously claims that the past was a mulligan and and that we are henceforth pious vestal virgins and everyone shall be treated equally.

This self righteousness goes to the extreme that several states and one political party oppose teaching the history of slavery, segregation and racism and all their horrors. They even tout the “benefits” of slavery.

Its a little like a 300 year foot race during which some of the competitors are required to wear 20lb weights around their necks. At the end of 300 years the racers are then told the they had to continue racing from where ever they finished the previous race but that henceforth they would be able to proceed without the 20 lb weights…….. and we’ll call it being equal.

Unbelievable.

A Game Texas (and the Republican Party) Wants America to Forget

Americans have a type of amnesia. It’s called white washing. We do our best to forget unpleasant historic facts. And in this Texas leads the country.

Read this recent obituary of an early African-American college player, C. R. Roberts from U.S.C., whose team went to Texas, yes the famous University of Texas, for a game…… that Texas want America to forget.

Medicynical Note: This didn’t happen in 1619. It happened in my lifetime. It’s the way we were.

The Civil Rights movement changed America for the better but it didn’t erase history or remove the profound effects of hundreds of years of racism. Like it or not it’s our history.

Supreme Court Returns to its Racist Roots….. Nothing New Here

America according the lyrics by Big Bill Broozy

“What you gonna do about the old Jim Crow?
Now if you was white, should be all right
If you was brown, could stick around
But if you black, whoa brother, git back git back git back”

And so the conservative, oh so pious republican appointees on the Supreme Court affirmed Big Bill’s observation in it’s ruling on Affirmative Action.

The ruling ignored our history of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and white’s only advantages for 250 years and declared that “magically” America has done away with the lasting multi-generational effects of our history, which they also no longer wish to acknowledge or for that matter include in our history.

Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown’s dissent puts it into the correct historical and legal perspective.

DeSantis: The Florida Racist

Government censorship to suppress historic fact is reminiscent of the German movement in the 30’s to disenfranchise and later murder an entire categories of people— whether the brutal murderous suppression of the Roma or the Jews the outcome was the same.

We, in the once United States, are having a kind of nervous breakdown moment. It’s a fact that slavery occurred for hundreds of years in our country. It’s a fact that all manner of atrocities occurred under slavery. This was not limited to the south but the bulk of the horror occurred there and indeed a bloody war was fought between states on this issue. And yes formalized legal segregation of the races also occurred. An it’s a fact that racism is still quite evident in our culture today.

So maybe it’s not surprising that the Florida governor, the grandchild of Italian immigrants, is moving, with the support of the Florida Republican Party, to erase the well documented history of slavery and segregation from schools in his state. He doesn’t want it taught there.

And now other states controlled by conservative republican legislatures are considering this type censorship.

Medicynical Note: For hundreds of years in parts of our country, the so-called land of the “free,” blacks were slaves, couldn’t own land, weren’t allowed into certain shops, had to sit in the back of the bus; and were limited to separate and unequal educational opportunity; etc, etc, etc. Hundreds of years without freedom, hundreds of years not being educated and hundreds of years of insecurity and poverty.

Republicans at one time had a proud history of opposing slavery (Lincoln) and supporting the anti-segregation civil rights legislation in the 60’s. That all changed in the late 60’s under the leadership of Nixon. The Repubs jumped ship and using a “southern strategy” suddenly like magic declared, after 300 or so years of racism, segregation and white preference, that any attempt to balance the scales was “discrimination” against whites. How timely and politically opportunist. The south has been solidly republican since that time.

And now, Florida is moving to stop teaching the facts of slavery and racism in our history. The movement sadly is not limited Florida. It’s white America in denial returning to it’s “originalist’s” racism.

American Racism…..it’s real and obvious

Saw this which led med to this.

In case you wondered, continued adoration of the confederacy puts in the spotlight America’s racist culture and it’s roots: the establishment of a country with an economy dependent on slavery. (See the 1619 Project)

Medicynical Note: Racism, yes it’s here and integrated (sic) into America’s DNA and it’s laws and justice system.

Since the mid 20th century we’ve attempted to deal with our sordid history. And yes there was progress but as libertarians emerged and during Trump’s term in office a large segment of our population denied and continues to deny it’s reality.

But it’s in the little things that we reveal ourselves such as …..removing statues that venerate the protectors of slavery….a skewed justice system…….a Supreme Court in denial of voter suppression….the violent reaction in some quarters to President Obama…..the suppression of the 1619 project…..etc,etc,etc.