re: How can you cognitively dissociate the our less glamous deeds from our ideals?

The winners of wars get to write the history and the narrative of what the ideals of a symbol stand for. In the end, the "idea" of our Republic are noble and good. The flag is one of the symbols of that vague notion of noble and good ideals of man, and that is good enough for me. We aren't there, but the ideals represented by the symbol is something to never stop striving for.

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We have amendments and clauses still in law that were meant to subjugate them. We have prosecutors to this day that still seek juries that were punitively punish and convict black defendants because of racial prejudices. Explain to me in your opinion why black Americans can and should blindly trust in a system that has, more so than not, not had their best interest in mind? Whether it was repealing slavery then ushering in Jim Crow right after that, or the beginning of the industrial prison complex in the 1870s to round up those freed men, or laws used to punitively restrict their economic advancements. Or the Democratic Party taking black votes for 50 years and giving them nothing but ruined cities and more plight, when has someone actually had their plights in mind, and not their representation to some sort of fiscal or political gain?

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Please show me laws and amendments currently in force that sanction discrimination against blacks or any other group. As a nation we have eliminated lawful discrimination. There are still some instances of individual discrimination and that will never end anywhere on earth.

What the current climate of protest is doing is furthering division between people and making matters worse. Racism was on a natural decline and would continue to decline if people would ignore small slights and protest only egregious instances of racism. The current activities of BLM will only make matters worse, which I suspect is their real objective.

For those willing to listen, it has been debunked that blacks are killed more often that whites by police. Statistics show that blacks are less likely to be shot by the police than whites.

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The United States is most likely the most diverse nation on earth and is also one of, if not the least, racist nation.

Perfect is the enemy of good

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dwelling on the perpetuation of historical conditions

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I would say that it is more dwelling on the belief that historical conditions are being perpetuated even if they are not. I liken it to the story from the other day of the woman who claims that when a man audibly farts in her presence, the man is raping her. It is total BS!

how has this alter not been called out yet? Just joined and first postings were on the OT. That is always a sure fire sign of an alter.

I mention perfection because people only want to harp on the good.
That's why this poster base adorns Ronald Reagan. Why would s black person that lived in the inner cities in the 80s like Ronald Reagan ?