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01-27-2013, 07:51 AM
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There has always been an insanity of one sort or another the centuries, maybe it depends on just who's ox is being gored at the moment.
The 60's and its aftermath has brought both good and bad, and I do see a lot more racial mixing, but in some ways we still have the racial consciousness of the 1950's merely turned upside down and inside out. Was the turmoil of the 60's a reaction to ultra nationalistic McCarthyism, extreme conservatism, racial disharmony boiling over and the Korean "police action" combined with Viet Nam thrown in as well as a few hallucinogenics and general decline of public conception of morality? How about all those single mothers now and children who might have tenuous ties to 3 or more families? I see that heart break every day, it generally wasn't that way back then. Another difference I see is that party crashers back then would go somewhere else when refused entrance, now the place gets shot up. It's just not the same, and I don't think we can put all the blame on illegal immigrants and minorities. Our subliminal concept of society - a notion of respect for one's self and others - has changed and not for the better. Not quite transferable, but there is a quote to the effect that the most dangerous time for a government is when it begins to reform, is that a parallel for our society and the aftermath of the 60's?
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Last edited by ilbegone; 01-27-2013 at 07:56 AM. 
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01-28-2013, 04:29 PM
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Hello everyone, I've been very sick so I haven't been around. But this is quite an interesting thread.
Minorities (and that does not mean race or skin color) will go to the bottom rung as those in a larger group gain. When you have power, but not the understanding that with it comes responsibility, the power becomes exploitation. I don't know if those reading this quite understand what I'm saying here, but it's just human nature. What we had as a country in the past was a republic that respected laws and the power/exploitation could only go so far. But today, our republic along with its laws are being pushed to the side as those with the power exploit for their own gain. Washington DC is getting very wealthy, and it has nothing to do with skin color, it has to do with gained power.
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