Racism

 Documentary film-maker, Ken Burns, interviewed on PBS, was asked what he learned making all his many documentaries.  He answered that all his stories from the Civil War to VietNam to Country Music had racism at their core.  In the events of last week, I saw racism so very clearly at their core.  

Watching the horrible insurrection on last Wednesday when the white mob entered and desecrated the Capitol on trump’s instructions, I saw white mobsters who were not restrained by the outnumbered Capitol police.  All the news commentators noticed and spoke about the double standard.  Blacks would have been stopped, like they were in the peaceable demonstrations for Black Lives Matter last summer.  The white supremacists were almost without restraint able to go into the Capitol and they were organized and had help from high places.

Since their arrival in our country, Blacks have been continuously enslaved, limited and put down in our country. They have suffered under voter repression, discrimination, unfair mortgage and loan restrictions, all to keeping them down.  That they are subjected to more police brutality is now clear for all to see.  In all the current traumas and difficulties in our country, one good thing is to raise this to the awareness of the majority of people in our country.  It has never been fair.  It must stop.  Justice must be served.  Racism must be named and confronted wherever it raises its ugly head.  We owe a great deal to the Black people of this country.