tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post2608078475951601690..comments2024-03-14T07:29:46.679-07:00Comments on Baha'i Coherence: Lessons of the Civil WarBryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06536028746119658713noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-83400943868940523882021-04-14T10:34:38.444-07:002021-04-14T10:34:38.444-07:00Yes.
The so-called "compromise" of 187...Yes. <br /><br />The so-called "compromise" of 1876, which was anything but a democratic compromise, inaugurated the Jim Crow era and sounded the death knell of Reconstruction. Those events and the sequelae ensured that we would still be dealing with this problem in the 21st Century, having never acknowledged and transcended the underlying racism. Developments since the civil rights era of the sixties have woven denialism in as an essential part of the bulwark defending racism. <br /><br />The American paradox needs to be brought out into the light of day before there is any hope of true healing. Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516547464509108352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-60295331465460833882018-02-11T13:40:33.827-08:002018-02-11T13:40:33.827-08:00Read this first when it came out,in a Dr. Waiting ...Read this first when it came out,in a Dr. Waiting room, distracted. Again today, as POTUS says we need due process. I recall Emmit Till, and think: how rare that I can agree with him once, though my vision of due process is surely different than his. <br />Thank you for the clear sketch of the present and future.<br /><br />(from Pickertown Road, Warrington, PA)C. E. Cornmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15515068501577540682noreply@blogger.com