Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, "the surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
The presence of racism hasn't be abated and reconciled. Fore it was told to us that a certain president would change the course of history, to devolve the evolution of centuries of racist and bigotries enacted from the forefathers and theirs before them. Yet, from what it shows, the division of the racist and bigotry of the American way has perpetrated to larger extent.
I conclude, that this issue stems from a three fold problem: the continuation of a self-inflicted racism, a doctrinal error of failure to establish a productive baseline of equality, and failure to comprehend the past as a cautionary tale.
It was in Plato's Republic that one understood the complexities of the government. Too much of one thing led to oligarchy, or aristocracy, dictatorship, monarchy, or democracy and his counter, the republic. Now while Pluto's basis for the evils and woes of each, democracy held the lowest of the forms of government that succeeded. His analysis rested upon the Athenian democracy model. From Plato to Aquinas, Hegel, Locke, and Tocqueville the errors of to much democracy was perilous. The Framers attempted to craft Plato's famed republic, which took from the best of all the aristocracy, monarchy, and democracy and attempted to quell the beasts of the oligarchy, dictatorship, and democracy demagogue. Now, we see the Europeans as a baseline of equality, yet do you know that France outlawed the burka because it failed to comply with the separation of religion and the secular state? Did you know that it passed with a majority of the French National Assembly? Probably not. And France is to be one of the most well graded for espousing, enacting, and performing equality.
The United States is in a continual cycle of racism, not because it is one person over another, in a sense that a person is always lower. While this generalization can be made, it can and is at a point false and invalid. In the game of racism, it takes two. One must accept the racism and one must make it. To enact change, it also takes two. One must rise above and one must accept the rise. This change or differential vector that makes racism near null, must be done in two-fold, an error the Republican Party and Democratic Party fail to do: change the mindset of being equal on the outset, that one can rise above their own and push through with their own effort and their own backing; and the government must find a way to prepare the individual for self-extermination of racist beliefs. It isn't just one that can be accomplished. Ferguson, MO teaches us that we have not been teaching and that we have not been providing the correct tools. This does not mean to spend wildly on things that have a zero-metric evaluation, such as more spending on projects and funding that have failed to actually produce the betterment of the person. We must establish a precedent and program that gives each person the value internally and externally that their "rank" is changeable upon their own actions. One must remember that actions of the negative must be met with an equal or greater reaction to either deter or to create a situation in which one believes they must change.
We look at our history and we fail to break the cycle of events. While we have learned, we haven't grasped the greater themes and sometimes, it goes to not just our own history. As a nation, we are one of the youngest and to have made major strides prior to and before our predecessors of Europe are congratulatory. In the nearly 1200 years France has been a nation, they have gone through monarchies, dictators, emperors, and 5 republics. In less than 300 years, the United States has had one government, continually, constantly, and without failing. So what is our cautionary tale? It is to become better than Europe and others in a much quicker time. To my critics who say we haven't progressed quick enough: compare the 1200 years of France to less than 300 of the American society in an objective manner and not a subjective state of self-induced consciousness.
The presence of racism hasn't be abated and reconciled. Fore it was told to us that a certain president would change the course of history, to devolve the evolution of centuries of racist and bigotries enacted from the forefathers and theirs before them. Yet, from what it shows, the division of the racist and bigotry of the American way has perpetrated to larger extent.
I conclude, that this issue stems from a three fold problem: the continuation of a self-inflicted racism, a doctrinal error of failure to establish a productive baseline of equality, and failure to comprehend the past as a cautionary tale.
It was in Plato's Republic that one understood the complexities of the government. Too much of one thing led to oligarchy, or aristocracy, dictatorship, monarchy, or democracy and his counter, the republic. Now while Pluto's basis for the evils and woes of each, democracy held the lowest of the forms of government that succeeded. His analysis rested upon the Athenian democracy model. From Plato to Aquinas, Hegel, Locke, and Tocqueville the errors of to much democracy was perilous. The Framers attempted to craft Plato's famed republic, which took from the best of all the aristocracy, monarchy, and democracy and attempted to quell the beasts of the oligarchy, dictatorship, and democracy demagogue. Now, we see the Europeans as a baseline of equality, yet do you know that France outlawed the burka because it failed to comply with the separation of religion and the secular state? Did you know that it passed with a majority of the French National Assembly? Probably not. And France is to be one of the most well graded for espousing, enacting, and performing equality.
The United States is in a continual cycle of racism, not because it is one person over another, in a sense that a person is always lower. While this generalization can be made, it can and is at a point false and invalid. In the game of racism, it takes two. One must accept the racism and one must make it. To enact change, it also takes two. One must rise above and one must accept the rise. This change or differential vector that makes racism near null, must be done in two-fold, an error the Republican Party and Democratic Party fail to do: change the mindset of being equal on the outset, that one can rise above their own and push through with their own effort and their own backing; and the government must find a way to prepare the individual for self-extermination of racist beliefs. It isn't just one that can be accomplished. Ferguson, MO teaches us that we have not been teaching and that we have not been providing the correct tools. This does not mean to spend wildly on things that have a zero-metric evaluation, such as more spending on projects and funding that have failed to actually produce the betterment of the person. We must establish a precedent and program that gives each person the value internally and externally that their "rank" is changeable upon their own actions. One must remember that actions of the negative must be met with an equal or greater reaction to either deter or to create a situation in which one believes they must change.
We look at our history and we fail to break the cycle of events. While we have learned, we haven't grasped the greater themes and sometimes, it goes to not just our own history. As a nation, we are one of the youngest and to have made major strides prior to and before our predecessors of Europe are congratulatory. In the nearly 1200 years France has been a nation, they have gone through monarchies, dictators, emperors, and 5 republics. In less than 300 years, the United States has had one government, continually, constantly, and without failing. So what is our cautionary tale? It is to become better than Europe and others in a much quicker time. To my critics who say we haven't progressed quick enough: compare the 1200 years of France to less than 300 of the American society in an objective manner and not a subjective state of self-induced consciousness.
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
