Sin & Grace in Charleston | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Sadly, Dylan Roof almost did not kill those people. We was almost moved by their faith, but something urged him on, which was racism. He was seeing them as people and stopped. The interesting reaction is from older white people who thought they had given up on racism (against the descendents of slaves), which is likely why Roof could not find anyone in the CCC to give him guidance (and talk him out of his stupidity). White racists, north and south, made this mess and have not cleaned it up, so we have Roof and the Ferguson PD. Sadly, racial overtones still do exist among the white elite. Look at the Tea Party or listen to Limbaugh or watch FoxNews and they are not subtly hidden when they speak of Obama. If ony he had joined his local Republican Committee he would be picking candidates rather than picking of the faithful.
Racism, by the way, is artificial, but it did not just spring up. It was essential to Cotton Capitalism in the South, both to justify slavery and to create for poor whites, look Roof, and excuse for the planter aristocracy to have it all while they lived on the margins of society. Today, it exists against Latinos, especially the immigrants, who pick our morning orange juice and grind our sausage (both pork and turkey) - and I could go on. Its no accident that the same people who were sold on racism against blacks are now so virulently against immigration in a way that can only be descirbed as racist. Indeed, their plea that the immigrants have broken the law could be used to justify the convict labor after the war where unlucky freemen were sentenced to work farms or mines for the profit of the white elite. Indeed, I am not sure that robotics could suceed in the South - there would be no one for the poor whites to hate but the rich capitalists. Only then will racism go away and unity commence. Of course, the rich Southern capitalists fear socialism most of all. They should.
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