Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, June 13, 2014
THE DAILY STRUGGLE FOR RENASCENT STEM CELLS
THE DAILY STRUGGLE FOR RENASCENT STEM CELLS
When you magnify malignancies and feature them continuously to the exclusion of healthy tissue, the implication is clearly that malignant whatever's predominate over normal.
This is a form of brainwashing, used frequently in all forms of popular media when depicting blacks. That a much larger number of blacks triumph over incredible institutional and cultural disadvantages in order to get ahead in this country is rarely positively portrayed. Meanwhile, the black defects--the killers, muggers, pimps, whores, and thieves--lead the newspaper headlines, nightly news, all television programming and many, funded psychological or sociological studies, designed to stigmatize the entire black race negatively.
With whites, however, it is the exact opposite. The white prima donnas, and achievers are put on public display, in all media for admiration and for emulation. Meanwhile, their defective malignants are hidden from view, or such persons are portrayed as sick individuals having no part in their superior white race race.
These juxtaposed portrayals are not accidental nor coincidental. Rather, they are tacitly incidental to the meme, the prevailing paradigm, of white supremacy fashioned during slavery to rationalize black economic chattel slavery; which was then retained after the Civil War, during "Reconstruction," to facilitate the reconciliation of the Northern white man with the Southern white man respecting the country's cultural, political and economic future. That future acknowledged that the same "rights, privileges and immunities" enjoyed by whites were to be equally invested in blacks, too, on paper--in law. Yet, such incidents of citizenship were denied to blacks in practice, in every day life, brutally, despotically.
In year 2014, we--true Americans--are making a strenuous effort to slough off this deadly and deceitful meme, this depraved paradigm, this malingering malignancy of white supremacist despond, and to replace them with the underlying renascent doctrinal stem cells of law, custom, religion, commerce, and politics.
To that end, we struggle each day.