re: #83 HappyWarrior

I think the thing that has me most frustrated is have we always been this flawed and were our accomplishments in spite of this all? I hate to say it but I’m thinking yes and yes. We won WWII with our allies thank god but while still segregated in the trenches. We ended slavery. Thank God and then Jim Crow happened. The Labor movement accomplished a lot for the working man. Thank God and now we have people who have no appreciation for what Unions have done for them. We have the knowledge on environmental science. Great, but we also have a cottage industry of deniers who will attack anything based on science. We could be so much greater. But maybe humanity is the real problem. We create our differences. We white people told the black man he was black and thus inferior and dark to our white. I’m not ashamed of being white but I’ll never be proud of it either.

Yes, we’ve always been this flawed and worse. People are intrinsically flawed creatures. We can but try to improve.
And I can’t think of any particular reason to be proud of one’s race either. I understand the need to claim pride if you’ve been told your race is inferior, but in a better world, I’d like to think it will be irrelevant.