[Bill23275]

Mike & Craig: While I generally cringe at African American-Gay comparisons, finding great distinctions between behavior and skin color, I do find some parallels in the two groups’ stark separation from the dominant culture. In both cases, the painful struggle to establish an independent identity and culture has yielded riches for all of humanity. That is, with our hands full of lemons we have made ourselves world-class purveyors of lemonade. Shall we not consider ourselves the most American of Americans, having created new cultures more through our own American efforts than through our parents’ imports? Jerry: The point of history is ONLY to guide the present in shaping the future; the rest is waste. Netta: There’s no need to say you’re sorry. Evidence your humanity by looking closer at the pro-majority slants built into the structure by our lawmakers. Watch out for ‘freedoms’ that enhance the ‘haves’ while disadvantaging the ‘have-nots’ even more than they are intrinsically. For example, Why do so few cities issue speeding tickets based on computer-cameras? Because it would make racial profiling even harder to obscure, easier to audit? Why aren’t banks obliged to process loan approvals by a registered algorithm? Because by keeping human judgment in gray matter, rather than codifying it in ones and zeros, they can evade accountability and call it ‘a subtle human judgment that takes years of experience to develop.’ Nonsense! Why are prisoners even ALLOWED to molest each other? Because it gives those in control another tool – ‘terror’ – by which they can manipulate the system and avoid accountability.

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Name : Bill23275, Gender : M, City : Taos, State : NM, Country : United States, 

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