Racism and EPA are two subjects in which many will say there has been great progress and a great many others will say where the hell is that progress.
With racism, I remember when old black men would often slowly walk about looking down at the sidewalk. I had never seen anything like that and hardly any black people at all before. I didn't know what to make of it as I was a twelve-year-old towhead trying to absorb all this in a new land.
That kind of racism which aggressively whipped people into subservience has faded but, in my view, it only took a different form and really didn't change that much because the ones who cause it didn't change at all. If you can hammer down any minority group that will give up a cheap labor pool every single time and that works to this day.
It's similar with slavery since American corporations (e.g. Walmart and other el cheapo discount stores) sell clothing from slave labor sweatshops in depressed countries (e.g. Bangladesh). America didn't wipe out slavery, it only moved it somewhere else.
For overall reduction in racism, I see a whole lot of cosmetics but no depth and it's like trying to substitute Kim Kardashian for Sandra Bullock, it ain't ever going to pass unless it's on Home Shopping Channel selling make-up and slave labor clothes ... which Sandra Bullock would never do.
(Ed: great you use white women to describe a problem in racism)
Fair enough but maybe add that to the stinking pile of verbiage which claims racism is solved while the Equal Rights Act remains a moribund, thirty-year-old stiff in the corner. The ERA was for everyone and it was stomped into the dirt decades ago. That's not a solution by itself either but it's one hell of a good step toward one.
The EPA is a rather better story since the EPA hates it like Ebola but, as with many other things, their memories are conveniently short. I remember when the Cuyahuga River in Cleveland routinely caught fire. Also, if you think L.A. is a such a stink bowl of automotive pollution, how about taking a cruise through Peking. If that's not enough to convince you, try Mexico City.
There's some comedy as the GOP is highly-insistent racism has been solved while at the same time they're equally-insistent the EPA hasn't done anything.
Any questions on why we do not listen to the GOP?
The premise at the Rockhouse is not that EPA has solved all environmental problems. You can see now how they shift to electric cars but this only moves a problem from one area (i.e. oil-based products) to a different area (i.e. alternate energy producers). There's some kind of Pollyanna view all alternative energy suppliers are vestal virgins who don't even leave footprints when they walk but, as with slavery, this doesn't solve the problem (i.e. too many cars), it only moves it.
There's tremendous work to be done in both areas but, here at the Rockhouse, we accept that and our only question is when can we get cracking on both of them. This is also why we have no ongoing interest in political candidates because they just talk about dicks (e.g. North Carolina) and butts (e.g. pseudo-feminism) all the time.
With racism, I remember when old black men would often slowly walk about looking down at the sidewalk. I had never seen anything like that and hardly any black people at all before. I didn't know what to make of it as I was a twelve-year-old towhead trying to absorb all this in a new land.
That kind of racism which aggressively whipped people into subservience has faded but, in my view, it only took a different form and really didn't change that much because the ones who cause it didn't change at all. If you can hammer down any minority group that will give up a cheap labor pool every single time and that works to this day.
It's similar with slavery since American corporations (e.g. Walmart and other el cheapo discount stores) sell clothing from slave labor sweatshops in depressed countries (e.g. Bangladesh). America didn't wipe out slavery, it only moved it somewhere else.
For overall reduction in racism, I see a whole lot of cosmetics but no depth and it's like trying to substitute Kim Kardashian for Sandra Bullock, it ain't ever going to pass unless it's on Home Shopping Channel selling make-up and slave labor clothes ... which Sandra Bullock would never do.
(Ed: great you use white women to describe a problem in racism)
Fair enough but maybe add that to the stinking pile of verbiage which claims racism is solved while the Equal Rights Act remains a moribund, thirty-year-old stiff in the corner. The ERA was for everyone and it was stomped into the dirt decades ago. That's not a solution by itself either but it's one hell of a good step toward one.
The EPA is a rather better story since the EPA hates it like Ebola but, as with many other things, their memories are conveniently short. I remember when the Cuyahuga River in Cleveland routinely caught fire. Also, if you think L.A. is a such a stink bowl of automotive pollution, how about taking a cruise through Peking. If that's not enough to convince you, try Mexico City.
There's some comedy as the GOP is highly-insistent racism has been solved while at the same time they're equally-insistent the EPA hasn't done anything.
Any questions on why we do not listen to the GOP?
The premise at the Rockhouse is not that EPA has solved all environmental problems. You can see now how they shift to electric cars but this only moves a problem from one area (i.e. oil-based products) to a different area (i.e. alternate energy producers). There's some kind of Pollyanna view all alternative energy suppliers are vestal virgins who don't even leave footprints when they walk but, as with slavery, this doesn't solve the problem (i.e. too many cars), it only moves it.
There's tremendous work to be done in both areas but, here at the Rockhouse, we accept that and our only question is when can we get cracking on both of them. This is also why we have no ongoing interest in political candidates because they just talk about dicks (e.g. North Carolina) and butts (e.g. pseudo-feminism) all the time.
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