"People of faith"?

As opposed to "people of no faith"?

I am not a person of your "faith" yet I have faith that the world will one day be, through evolution and the advancement of education, free from racial and religious quarreling, political manipulation and division. Does that make me a "person of faith," too, or do you reserve that name for the same box you claim to have God in?

Part one.

Racism directed at certain groups of people--in the U.S. blacks and people with a great deal of Native American descent, including Hispanics--will never be overcome. And the reason why is simple. No matter how much the oppressing race--in the U.S. typically white people--tries to keep from racism the oppressed will not fit well into society, as model minorities do, such as Indians from India and Asians such as Koreans, Japanese, Chinese.

In other words, much of what now passes for racism on the part of whites is actually the oppressed just not working up to the potential of whites and model minorities. Anyone can observe where blacks and Hispanics, for example, are the majority--Central America, Africa, etc.--there is nothing but economic backwardness. And in those societies the charge of racism cannot be levelled because the oppressed are the majority.

And it is significant to observe that people from nations which are economically backward much prefer to come to the U.S. or other successful countries and cry "racism!" instead of living in their own countries where that charge cannot be levelled. And they do not want to live in their countries of origin because they would be faced with only themselves and their own shortcomings.

Part two.

The charge of racism exists to a large degree because society does not have the courage to observe that some peoples just do not demonstrate the intelligence and imagination as other peoples. When it is insisted upon left and right that there are no differences between people and differences actually exist no one has the courage to talk about, the result is that the more successful peoples cannot help but be called racist. There is no other alternative.

And I am sorry to say that no matter religion, no matter its attempt to see all as equal, the pure calculus of society which to a large degree owes its origin to the scientific revolution will continue to become more sophisticated, will determine differences and similarities between people which of course is discrimination, and all in the attempt at the betterment of society.

Two separate and conflicting impulses: the drive to see all as equal which is common to religion and progressive understandings of society, and the drive to more and more determine talent, to be meritocratic. If the former wins out we have justice at the price of society becoming more and more mediocre, in fact aiming in the direction of becoming third world, backward economics. If the latter wins out we have the increasing sophistication of society at the price of being unjust to many people. Two impulses at work here. And we cannot even speak of them much less work toward some sort of solution.

Hmmm, it appears Homeland has taken up the mantle of New World's probability waves. And what drives these waves of blog infection?? Hmmm, the full Moon???

The Cambridge incident is indeed a teachable moment. I recommend Stanley Fish's latest article on the incident.

This moment affords us the opportunity to acknowledge the obvious: we are being hypocritical, as people of faith, when we gather for worship on Sundays in our purposely segregated enclaves. Love for others and recognition of equality are more than phrases of platitude, they are actions.

How does a person of faith affirm the principle of equality and at the same time does everything possible to separate people on the basis of being better than "them"?

Change in this regard has to begin with us.

If Prof. Gates doen't Fess-up to his "GUILTY-MIND" and plead "Guilty" to Inciting a

International Uproar anda "National-Riot" (something our real enemies thrive-on; or condone? by proxy AGENTS?) , so he Must really go to jail; Because

Behold: Thou Shall not (Situationally) LIE!

The RACE-CARD in Sweet Sweet U.S. of A.'s must END! It's getting to Dry, especially when

today AMERICAm, not AFRICA, has a half/White and half/Black/Brown "Elected" President For

2009+.

Repercussions (not Riots)? but:

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DOWN with OBAMA & CO., comes 2012 and beyond!!!

DOWN with OBAMA & CO., comes 2012 and beyond!!!

DOWN with OBAMA & CO., comes 2012 and beyond!!!

Prof. GATES Must GO To Jail For almost insighting a National (RACE BASED) RIOT!

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"A White Crackers ain't gota Chance against a Black Cracker"?

Money and its cartels create the fiber of human motivation. Love and religion are just sub-sets. Winners in this scheme of things are blessed by Lady Luck and Mother Nature. The losers are cast offs by the Devil.

The Gates-Crowley incident was not "Racial Profiling," it was "Contempt of Cop," a frequent occurrence with a high incidence of race and class bias. If they are wise, Dr. Gates and Sgt. Crowley will do a joint study of the “Contempt of Cop” issue. Sgt. Crowley (who taught a class on racial profiling at the Lowell Police Academy) could instruct officers how to avoid this abuse of discretionary police powers of arrest.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/beer-summit-hangover/