Neighbors
I have been avoiding the race issues lately, but they are beyond the point of ignoring anymore. They are obnoxiously present, and overly exhausted. But they are not the problem. Racism is not THE problem. It is a symptom, like a headache. And like a headache, it won't disappear until the underlying issue is addressed. People think they are addressing it by protesting in the streets, erasing history and monuments, burning cities, creating lawlessness in place of civility. This is not only asinine, its counterproductive. Racism isn't an American thing, it's not a white thing, it's not a privileged thing. It's a human thing. It's in every culture, in every race group, in every country, on every continent on the planet. It's always been in all of those places and peoples for the existence of civilization. Right now the world is treating this headache by yelling at it, and drawing more attention to it. Over analyzing and relabelling it, as if defining it as a...