Re-segregation

Not to shatter all your Kumbaya feelings, but I read this word in the ‘fake’ Washington Post news and it gave me a shutter. With all our devisees it seems that some of our elected officials (those we chose to represent our ideals) are trying to resurge the idea of separate-but-equal.

“LAST YEAR, Rep. Paul A. Gosar, an Arizona Republican, explained why he disliked an Obama administration plan to build affordable housing — as a means of helping minorities and poor people — in mainly white, middle-class neighborhoods.

“Instead of living with neighbors you like and choose, this breaks up the core fabric of how we start to look at communities,” Mr. Gosar told the Hill newspaper. “That just brings unease to everyone in that area.”

Yes: “Unease” at the prospect of neighborhood integration has long been central to U.S. racism, or a euphemism for it. It has also played a central role in an equally poisonous problem — the resegregation of public schools — that started accelerating 15 years ago, about a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools are “inherently unequal.” Washington Post

From what I remember separate was never equal.

There has to be a reason for separation idea?

“On Sept. 23, 1957, thousands of segregationists blocked nine young black students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, an all-white institution in the Arkansas capital. Gov. Orval Faubus ignited a nationwide crisis when he defied the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education, and deployed the Arkansas National Guard to bar the students. Two days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered U.S. Army units to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school.

This fall marked the 60th anniversary of this pivotal moment in the history of America’s racial struggle. With the political landscape seemingly as divided as it has ever been, this moment provides an opportunity to examine the depth and contours of segregation in the nation today. Though clear advances have been made since the civil rights movement, the enactment of increasingly conservative social policies over the last half-century reveals how tenuous such progress turned out to be.

The consequences of creeping racial resegregation should constitute nothing less than a national crisis.

U.S. cities have grown more segregated over the past 40 years, and persistent and intensifying racial disparities between white communities and people of color have emerged. This systematic re-segregation has grave implications for access to health care services, education and accumulation of wealth.” Washington Post

I grew up in segregation. Just as two generations earlier people were forced into servitude as if the Middle Ages reigned over the colonies. It was the status quo born into.

Being of the ‘majority’ (aka ‘White’) population I could accept the privilege without knowing the consequences of my life compared to those across the street. Having an umbrella as opposed to running for shelter in the rain had little effect on me until I started to realize why everybody didn’t have an umbrella.

When ‘integration’ started at my school, it seemed no big deal because like any migration, ‘they’ kept to themselves and didn’t intermingle out of distrust or fear. If there had been aggression, bigotry, prejudice, I never saw it but for those who hide in the shadows?

So here is a politician suggesting the country move back to the times of separate-but…?

Now let’s think about it. Going back to a time of one race feeling superior to another due to whatever misguided factions could be brushed off as if we’d moved on, but have we?

On the other side, should we just throw away all our restrictions and regulations, as it seems to be re-evolving? Should we just drill anywhere because we done need that oil and should we just shoot any animal including our children and should we restrict people who are different to poverty and misery?

If we decide or are told to go back to basics, will we survive?

The basics are that we must have sex. We can go without food or shelter to have sex. We dream about it, we talk about it, we look at it, we desire (no crave) it, and other than taking a break for a sandwich and a poop, we feel we could just have sex all day and all night.

Unfortunately all that would do is make lots of babies, so we take a break to make money because we are too tired to hunt and gather. Then we start playing the hanky-panky game and sex turns to violence. Jealousy is such a funky emotion.

But on that take, we also enjoy killing. We make better weapons to wage war on each other with the excuse that we kill whatever animal we please to extinguish for the food on the table or the head on the wall. After the animal slaughter bores us, we move onto finding new ways to torture each other.

After all that, we, the people of this planet called ‘Earth’, need a reason for the unknown. Seems most of us want to believe in some omnipresent alien being causing all our problems.

So now we are getting back to the root of civilization where we are walking around killing each other and eating animals and having lots of sex.

Oh, I forgot a big one. We also want to be loopy. Whether it be drink or a puff or a snort or a shot or a pill, we want to feel no pain. Actually we want to feel goofy. Look at the excess today to prove if we had no restrictions, Katy bar the door.

While we are going back to the good-ole-days, lets take off those other restrictions like speed limits and building inspections and food testing and haircuts.

A little overdone for the ‘re-segregation’ theory, but now we are stumbling around naked with a weapon in one hand and our main squeeze (for the time being) in the other looking for the latest craft brewery or ultimate fight.

It wouldn’t take long for us to slide down the slippery slope of civilization to our worst intrinsic nature.

Every day we indulge in the propaganda while it chips away at our achievements.

Good luck citizens of the Earth.