Quote:The change must be cultural not legislated. Civil rights legislation did not change the way ppl feel, it only made it illegal to openly do it. This is not going to be a quick fix. It's going to take time. There are a myriad of issues that need examination. The first step is to begin stepping out of our comfort zone and getting to know ppl outside our community. You'll find we have the same dreams, goals and desires as one another. We will need to walk a mile in each other's shoes. And we will have to work together. Propaganda works decidedly worse when ppl are well informed.

 

But how do you actually make that happen and should you even attempt to socially engineer a free society?  In a free society, it's really nobody's business to suggest or enforce who I spend my time with and that's not to suggest I don't spend a great deal of time with people of other races.  Your idea is still very short on details, much like the BLM website, and it might not even be ethical depending on what extent you're taking it to.  I would contend that if the entire world population intermingled and interbred into a single new race in 10's of thousands of years that we would still find ways to group ourselves and find confrontation between those groups.  Racial differences just happen to be the easiest and laziest way for people to group themselves.

 

The problem with BLM and Kaepernick's statement, as I mentioned earlier, is that they've requested no specific solution for their grievance.  It begs the question, do they even want the grievance solved or are they content to just being adversarial to American society as a whole?  I don't believe they're winning over any hearts and minds with their comments/actions so I have to believe they're more interested in just being adversarial just for the sake of it.  

Where's this generation's great black rights orator?  There's certainly no Dr. King equivalent anywhere to be found.  

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