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.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
REALPOLITICK
AMERICAN REALPOLITIK
Not only has American realpolitik historically extracted the worst of Roman slavery, the worst of Greek democracy, the worst of Egypt's ancient civilization's values to make American politics and culture: but it has invented, perfected, its own brand of racism that is encoded in its religion, trade, and constitution to assure suppression of Africans, even to the point of deputizing individual non-"slave holders" as accomplices, expediters, at the pain of legal monetary sanctions.