{"id":3366,"date":"2009-07-23T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2009-07-23T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T13:05:34","slug":"race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/23\/race\/","title":{"rendered":"race…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I didn’t like "cringing" last night when Obama started talking about the Gates’ arrest. Gates was a bit too righteously indignant for me. I’d have preferred him making the same point with a touch of humility, a slight show of empathy for the officer, a thin acknowlegement of the crime statistics. But then I had some otherr thoughts. My cringing had to do with the coming Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, Coulter, who-knows-who-all response that will fan the racism with charges of racism – all that ‘stuff’ I’ve gotten so tired of hearing over my lifetime.<\/div>\n

I’ve decided that America’s ‘diversity problem’ has a distinct and clear cause – diversity itself. Nothing much to say about that in my opinion. Trying to pretend we don’t have a diversity problem doesn’t work because it’s in the DNA. Human beings are herd animals, no doubt about it. If you look at those cows in a mixed pasture. the black ones congregate together as do the white ones. It doesn’t get much more scientific than that.<\/p>\n

So how are the cows different from us? They just haven’t evolved to the point where the inderstand the concept of ‘better.’ I’m not even sure they know about ‘different.’ They just know about ‘same.’ That gets them through without all the problems that ‘different’ and ‘better’ bring to human-kind. So, it’s fine with me what Obama said. I could’ve used some other comment than "stupid" for the officer involved. I’d have preferred him saying something like, "I hope the officers involved learned something about themselves in this episode. And I hope they can meet with Dr. Gates and let them talk it out. We don’t need to decry racism any more. We’ve done that. We need to start meeting each other personally and allowing our common humanity to correct the simplistic mistakes of the past." [That was fine. I think I’ll stop while I’m ahead.]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t like "cringing" last night when Obama started talking about the Gates’ arrest. Gates was a bit too righteously indignant for me. I’d have preferred him making the same point with a touch of humility, a slight show of empathy for the officer, a thin acknowlegement of the crime statistics. But then I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}