waybread
Well-known member
Why would I have a problem with people from other ethnicities?
We don't disagree on the issues or on the desired result.
We only disagree on the method on how to achieve such results. Thats all - and has been the same on every thread.
I think government's only purpose is to protect the rights of its citizens.
To me integration and acceptance have to occur naturally.
Enforcing integration only causes the problems you have now.
Government shouldn't force people to either segregate or integrate.
Human beings are born free, and should be treated as such. As long as we respect each other's right, we don't really need government interference. Goverment to me should only step in, when someone's rights are violated.
Then a thread on the United States politics should be meaningless to you. In the US, the purpose and duties of the three branches of federal government are spelled out in the Constitution. They are miles apart from your professed beliefs. I think this thread is about your wanting the United States to be something it is not.
Have you read the US Constitution, Dirius? Some of the amendments are extremely important, like the 14th Amendment of 1868, shortly after the end of the Civil War. It enshrines the right to equal protection under the law.
The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence states:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.”
So what happens when someone's rights to "liberty and the pursuit of happiness" get trampled on by bigoted people, due to conditions of birth, such as ethnicity/race, gender, religion, or political beliefs?
This is really what the Black Lives Matter is about. If all are entitled to equal protection under the law, and if all are entitled to equality, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then it is essential that the nation live up to its own charters.
The often-noted irony is that the Declaration of Independence was written when a number of the founders were slave holders. But over time, various disadvantaged groups have held the country's feet to the fire. If "all men are created equal" then there is no justification for discriminatory legislation or practices based upon ethnicity. The concept of "men" over time has expanded to include women, people with disabilities, and people of different sexual and gender orientations.
The idea of "immigration and acceptance occuring naturally" (whatever "natural" means to you,) is the old "evolution vs. revolution" argument. No group of oppressed people have obtained their rights by sitting meekly by and waiting for their "superiors" to deign to hand them more rights. People living under discrimination have always had to fight (whether metaphorically or literally) to obtain justice and equal protection under the law.
"Enforcing integration"? Seriously. You know about the practice of redlining and restrictive home-owners covenants in American cities? Black Americans lived with enforced segregation that prevented them from having the same rights to choose their homes that white Americans enjoyed. Hence the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
You know about Jim Crow laws in the South, abolished only by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and innumerable related court cases?
You're not writing about the United States, Dirius. I actually don't think you're writing about any country on the map.
Last edited: