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| The Tragic and Complete Collapse of Racial Relations |
| 2015-08-21 |
| By Victor Davis Hanson [PJMedia] A recent New York Times/CBS News poll [1] just revealed that about 60% of Americans feel race relations are not good. Some 40% think that they will become even worse. Yet when Obama was elected, 66% of those polled felt race relations were generally OK. All racial groups, according to recent polling, believe that Obama's handling of racial relations has made things worse since 2009. Another recent Pew poll confirms these tensions, and suggests whites are now about as pessimistic as blacks. What has happened to racial relations? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #12 Want to fix race relations? Dr King had it right: judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. This works for all races |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-08-21 17:27 |
| #11 Race relation bad because president and henchmen like Holder view everything Race First, and seldom look any further, screaming racism even when it's simply not the case. The press amplifies this,and spreads outright lies like My hands are up don't shoot. Black racists repeat the lie and black people react as they have been taught by generations of liberals: unthinkingly, and as a group, parroting what they have been told to say. Race relations are a wreck because black people see everything as racism, and refuse to think. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-08-21 17:25 |
| #10 Sulla is a convenient marker, and so is Obama. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-21 16:03 |
| #9 The republic died before then. The success of the 2nd Punic War laid the seeds of its end. It's constitution was for a city state. It could handle Italy by stretching it, but overseas commitments meant that the executive derived more and more power to make it work. The importation of 'cheap labor' displaced the yeomen/populi while the oligarchs who gained wealth through capital/property acquisition (at the expense of those populi) consolidated power via factions and graft. All undermined the cohesion and somewhat balance of the old republic. The practice of legionnaires being loyal to their paymasters rather than the state/Rome had already been established. Sulla was the end state not the beginning of the end of the remains of the old republic. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-21 15:51 |
| #8 (i) Sulla killed the Republic. (ii) Obama capable in his own way. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-21 15:31 |
| #7 Sulla was a capable general. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-21 15:16 |
| #6 Common people. Obama = Sulla. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-08-21 15:09 |
| #5 Nixon - Julius [interim power sharing] Ronnie - Augustus Bush Sr - Tiberius Billy - Caligula Bush Jr - Claudius Obama - Nero yep, I'd say we about into the Year of the Four Emperors. I believe Fred is close to a reasonable track for the ebbs and flows of human nature. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-21 14:59 |
| #4 [Waiting for someone to cross the Rubicon] |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-08-21 14:46 |
| #3 [Waiting for Vespasian to arrive] |
| Posted by: Fred 2015-08-21 13:19 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-08-21 10:18 |
| #1 95% of blacks who voted, voted for the man. If 95% of whites had voted solely for the white candidate they would have all screamed racists! I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. "One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee." |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-21 09:56 |