To all of those people who haven’t experienced the United States first hand – through having lived here for many years, present day claims of “racism” may appear credible to the observer who is outside of the environment first hand. But, is it a cheap trick? A real issue for Americans, is not hatred for any single race or for mixture of races. Rather, it is the problems that arise from an ethnic-centered attitude – where people band together to do organized harm upon others. Harm, even against our own government, law, and order. Against, the framework for shared liberty. Read this whole post to understand my point more fully – because it is a complex human issue that cannot be summed up in a few words.

Self-love, that is based on one’s skin color or ethnic identity, is what has prompted people to fall in line with the order and classifications that sociologists and government all too quickly divide us into. Being so entirely aware of one’s racial identity (as opposed to admitting and tolerating the truth that manners, behaviors, and beliefs, are more often the real reasons that people differ from one another), results at times in people banding together based on race – unified by hatred for the others; and for exploit – “give me what I’m due”. But there’s more to this racial division, and you’ll have to read the last paragraphs herein, to get my point more fully.

I personally enjoy identification with my own racial make-up every bit as much as the next person does; particularly in a long abcense from it. In a way, I’ve always been a foreigner in my own country of birth, citizenship, and higher education. But, more than racial likeness, I know that I always have identified and joined more closely to people who share my religious beliefs; and who appreciate my culture (regardless of their own race). It is true that there is a short-hand that people of particular sameness engage in. But, friendship requires more than that alone. That has accounted for my diverse ethnicity of friends. And, so long as the aim is to flourish, and not to act out with hatred against those whom I might identify with to any lesser extent – all is good. But, often times today, people try too much. They would force you to embrace all of their errors. It seems no longer sufficient, to quietly differ from others. Now, one has to condone others’ violence in the name of a perverted sense of justice. That’s not right. It never was.

Despite a normal attachment to one’s culture, hate for every single member of a particular race is unnatural; and that much is true. Over time, through reinforced negative experiences with members of a particular racial community, racism against the perpetrators can proliferate. That is why it is so crucial to resist the temptation to call someone racist, in the interest of peace-making. But, as humans we sometimes make mistakes that can be exaggerated by observers. Negative experiences with one particular race (whichever it may be), can reinforce hatred – which is why sometimes we have to segregate ourselves from those who exhibit hatred against us – no matter what race that force may be coming from. We also have to recognize that some people cannot see beyond color, in which case we have to be extra patient with their mental limitations.

This is why the police have to be very morally upright, treating each person of every race equally. We know that is not 100% possible. Police are totally necessary. No race deserves preferential treatment; and behavior is what matters in the eyes of our justice. We cannot change our race, but we can always take opportunity to improve our personal behavior – as ambassadors of our racial identity and culture.

I’d like to recommend in this post a movie. It is entitled: “The Statue of Liberty: Enlightening the World”. A “The History Channel” production, it aired on US TV as part of the “Modern Marvels” series for “A&E Television Networks” (1994 copyright). With 8 chapters to the program, The Statue is presented as a beautiful gift (or Trojan horse) depending on your viewpoint. With great facts about the people involved in its creation, and behind the scenes chronology of its construction, the documentary also presents 2 bonus feature chapters. One, about Ellis island: “Save our History”; and the other one presenting more facts, entitled: “Statue of Liberty Facts”. Beginning with the history of “The Declaration of Independence” and Revolutionary War, the documentary critically examines the poetic words associated with the Statue and its often associated symbolic representations of virtues. One of the bonus features, critically reminds Americans that “the scourge of WW1 caused our government to have to take a hard-line stance on immigration.” “This reality, gave way to a strict quota for legal immigration – a policy that to this very day maintains the same proportions of ethnic-group immigration pattern.”

Idealists today will often still fantasize that refugees (regardless of their origination) are always welcome to come live in America. The truth, however, is that every benefit known to man has a proper order and need for proper human effort to maintain immigration control… freedom to be properly dispensed and enjoyed, without degradation into Marxist life.

I’d like to close the recommendation of this documentary, with a quote from some pages of a Catholic book. [Pages 60 and 61 of “100 Years of Fatima-The Immaculate Heart of Mary and God’s Plan for America”, written by author Luiz Sergio Solimeo in 2017]. He properly alludes to our very own US Revolution in the 1700’s, as an “error of Communism”. While the American Revolution predated 1917, philosophies born out of Europe long ago, spread to America even; re-visiting us, in the 20th Century, after the Bolshevik Marxism of former Communist Russia (pgs. 60 and 61). His most clear paragraph on this topic states, “Now then, even Western countries that have not adopted Marxism as a philosophy of government or state capitalism as a political-economic system are rife with errors that lead to communism.” This clearly calls out present day trend in America, and other countries. The past American Revolution even, promising freedom at any price for all who come [with promises for freedom extended to every sojourner (until death), is actually a naive and mythical participation in illusion.] The words of Emma Lazarus, 1883 “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” were a wonderful invitation, however, also lagely a fantasy that people to this very day are bitter not to have as our complete prevailing truth and real existential experience.