You don’t Solve a Problem Pretending it doesn’t Exist

When there is a problem, calling it a ‘challenge’ doesn’t change the fact it is a problem.   Pretending it isn’t there, does not address it.

Politically correct palaver and assumed blindness allows it to grow larger and larger until it is unsolvable.

America is a country built on racism.  To deny it, to deflect, to explain does not conquer it.  What has happened is that America has gone decade to century pretending it isn’t there and so, at each explosion, there is a sense of surprise or shock which is as surprising as a pressure cooker which is given too much heat, exploding.

Those who came to America to settle  either came to escape the prejudice they felt, or went sent by others who expressed that prejudice.   Some may have come for the adventure, but for many it was not that much of a choice.

From the encounters with the Native People, who, to justify the invasion, capture and conquest were deemed inferior, to the ‘indentured servants’ many of whom were exiled from Europe, to the imported slaves, the sense of race was always a key feature.

Classified, these persons lived over there and had this kind of a life, those were over there and had different experiences.  The intermingling of the various groups was not common and either frowned upon and caused castigation or death.

As African slavery replaced Native American and imported ‘indentured servitude’ the sense of inferiority was an easy explanation as to why these people should be slaves and these should not.

Over the decades since slavery was abolished the reactions of those who confronted ex-slaves was more often then not, violent and drenched with race hatred.

To pretend that racism does not exist in America is to perpetuate it.

The election of Barack Obama did not end racism, it operated as a veil.   The Ku Klux Klan emerged, called the ‘Tea Party” and people said one thing, but believed another, and when able to express themselves without penalty, did so.

The racism was evident in the election of a Republican Congress which attempted to stymie every idea that the President expressed.   It mattered not that the rest of the world was amused by the performance.  What mattered was that in a totally ‘politically correct’ manner, the racism could be expressed.

When Donald Trump began his campaign, persons slapped him away as comic relief, unaware that the racism that festered within many white Americans had found its manner of expression.   Trump won his place on the ballot and the election.

It was a victory for racism.

Many actions have been performed, few reported, which proves the explosion of the pressure cooker.  Things have been said, done, which are clear.   Appointments have been made which leave no doubt that ‘Make America Great Again’ is saying; “Make America White Again”.

What will occur in the next four years should push back the equality of non-whites to 1950s levels.