Race Relations

Is it no wonder that Americans do not like to talk about race relations. When discussed one must acknowledge guilt, and here in the greatest nation in the world the Americans love to distance themselves from wrong doing or mistakes. The patriot will tell you America is not perfect, but will fail to give a honest assessment of its imperfections. It is the same as a person who readily admits imperfections but won't list their alcoholism as a imperfection, the most glaring fault, instead they generically say that no one is perfect.

The Americans will talk about past race relations and how things are so much better than how they use to be. However an assessment of America in 1811 and America in 2011 is inherently unequal. Of course things are better, simply the fact that the African natives are no longer in chains is proof that things are better. Nothing else need change and one could say America has made large strides. It is as dishonest as saying a marriage has improved because the husband has stop beating his wife. There has been an improvement, a step in the right direction has been made. However if the husband is still coming home drunk the situation has not improved much just the condition of the wife. Just like the husband America still drinks the intoxicating brew of superiority, racial and national superiority. Drunk of the belief of your race is the most successful your nation is the most powerful America looks at the world from the prospective of the drunk husband. Simple because they no longer take their anger out on the wife automatically means things are mended between he and his wife. What the drunk husband, as well as the Americans fail to understand is that simply stopping the behavior does not mend its results. The welts my heal but the scares do not. It is not up to the victimizer to tell the victim when they are healed.

In truth this is exactly what America tells Negroes when refusing to speak of race relations in this nation. It is as if the country feels all is well because the slaves shackles have gone and the public beating ceases without mending the wounds of the mind and heart. In the nation that beliefs in the death penalty how can America expect the former slaves to not seek justice for the scores killed and enslaved by America. Exactly what is the statue of limitations on genocide?