Ron’s in fine form today and even enclosed images. More work for me to post.

Ron on.

Eliminating racism is about as practical an idea as eliminating Islam. It’s in our nature to feel safer and more comfortable around people who look like us, act like us, think like us, talk like us. Racism is a fact of life. The trick is learning to live with it. Don’t know how to do that? Ask a Marine, or an Army vet from Afghanistan, or a Navy vet from ‘Nam.

Eliminating hatred is no more reasonable an idea than eliminating gambling, or alcoholism, or addiction. It’s simply a fact of human nature, usually based on ignorance and fear, just as gambling is based on greed and thrill. Deal with it.

Eliminating terrorism is no more achievable an idea than eliminating ignorance, or religion, or zealotry. It’s the way we are. When we don’t get our way, we throw a tantrum. And terrorism’s fuel is mass media.

This is all really quite simple when observed from a reasonable distance:

1. The primary motive of the rich and powerful is maintenance of the status quo. Washington politicians are FAR more interested in re-election than making America great again.

Truman was the last president to leave office and not be a millionaire…GOC

2. Racism will never disappear from America as long as powerful people profit from it.

3. Hatred is not instinctive; it is learned behavior. Black and brown children are being indoctrinated by their teachers today to hate white children because of the color of their skin.

4. Terrorism is born in ignorance, nourished by fear, and augmented by propaganda.

Most of the people tearing down statues and monuments and demanding that private citizens get rid of their personal symbols of the Confederacy don’t even know the stories behind the symbols. What’s worse, they don’t want to HEAR it.

Judge Taney, for example, was born in 1777 and simply wrote a controversial ruling on the Dred Scott case that reflected both the law of the land and public opinion when he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Also, he was a Democrat, and although he inherited slaves, he freed them and provided pensions to the older ones. By the time the Civil War erupted, he was a decrepit old man who died before it ended.

And as for the monument to the women of the Confederacy, all it shows is two women supporting their men, one of whom has fallen in battle. What the hell’s wrong with that?

Many of the statues and monuments have been around for over a hundred years, during which time conditions for minorities have steadily improved to the point that American blacks live better than blacks in any country in Africa, particularly those run by blacks.

What’s going on here is that blacks who NEVER were slaves, or even SAW a black slave in this county, are rumbling against white people who aren’t Nazis and never WERE Nazis, and it’s all because someone wanted to take down a statue of a confederate general, which was originally erected by Democrats, because they have a compelling need to rewrite history so they can win the next election. And what’s funny about it is that they’re blaming it all on Trump.

When white people protest things, they’re immediately called “Racist!” “Nazi!” and so on. When blacks riot, loot, murder, destroy property, and even rape, the media refer to it as “justice.”

No simple, complete solution exists for solving the mess that racism, terrorism, hatred, and all the rest have brought into society. But one really good start would be to simply stop advertising and propagating it in the mass media.

When a group of troublemakers of ANY ethnic or political group arm themselves and begin injuring or killing people who disagree with them and destroying private and public property in the meantime, don’t sensationalize it. Merely report that a large number of unruly, ignorant, misled, disgruntled malcontents disturbed the peace and made great bloody nuisances of themselves.

Do NOT broadcast clips or photos on national television of arson, assault, profanity, nudity, destruction of property, or other activities performed for no other reason than that elusive 15 minutes of fame or notoriety that all troublemakers long for.

State only that they represent a tiny minority of radical agitprops, where they came from, who funded their activities, and which ones were arrested. The only result from broadcasting their violence and destruction and hatred on a national level will not be to change the hearts and minds of people across the country but encourage me-too-ism, the monkey-see/monkey-do copycats who might never have thought of such behavior had it not been suggested over and over and over for them on TV.

Local television and print media can record and disseminate names, pictures, damage estimates, and so on because only the people in the immediate area will be directly affected by riots, street blockages, fires, rapes, gunfire, and so on.

Blaming Trump for whatever he did or didn’t say about whomever last weekend makes about as much sense as Soetoro’s blaming Dubya for everything that went wrong in the first 5 years of his tenure, when in fact most of the racial tension in the country today can be traced back to Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro’s knee-jerk reactions to professor Gates, TrayvonMartin , Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray.

Ron off.