Hypocrisy, Racism, War & Lies: Part Two. At Home in America.

Where we stand on issues of race, politics and culture depends on our perspective. Many African-Americans see the Constitution very differently from many white Americans. Where some see benefit, others see loss, and this disparity undermines the fundamental premise at the root of the Constitution, that America was ‘conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.’

Perspective is everything.

‘The South Carolina code of 1712 set up special laws for Negroes to “restrain the disorders, rapines and inhumanity to which they are naturally prone and inclined.” This is still the white stereotype of the Negro.’

I.F.Stone in NYR, August 18, 1966.

Continuing on directly from the end of Part One in this U.S. election mini-series.

At home in the good ol’ US of A.

In a paper I have quoted from often, though perhaps not always in the way the author had intended her words be used, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Jeane Kirkpatrick, made similar denunciations…