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LIBERTY:
Rights & Tolerance | June 25, 2002
THE
PECKING
ORDER
An
E-Mail to a Democratic National Committee Member
...the racism thing is really sad. I know a lot
of otherwise good, God-fearing, law-abiding, typically suburban
citizens...who will never (or rarely) come right out and say
something racist, but it's just simmering under the surface,
and seems to eventually make its way into just about any
conversation.
My late mother used to say that most of the
problems in the world, from international relations to personal
relations, were caused by "insecurity". And this
pathological insistence on putting yourself up by putting
someone else down, on the basis of race or religion or however "the pecking order" is established, is just some twisted
form of contagious mental illness.
But it's not as acceptable or as fashionable
as it once was, so I guess progress is being made. Sigh.
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