This is a very moving & important piece by a black woman whose ancestors were raped by white men & thus has a good deal of European blood coursing in her veins.
Nowadays, far more white women are raped by black men than the other way around (although non-PC, if not down-right racist, to mention it), but are not normally forced to bear their children.
We need a deep & meaningful conversation about RACE, which we have not yet had.
We need a deep & meaningful conversation about RACE, which we have not yet had.
The reason we haven't yet had this conversation is not just because it is difficult & painful for many, like Ms. Williams, but also because the STATE insists on defining limits to it, much as the medieval church did in regard to discussions about God.
The medieval church did not permit anyone to doubt the veracity of the Bible, while today, state & academic authority does not allow anyone to question the irrelevance of race in regard to national identity.
An American is an American, irrespective of their race!
An American is an American, irrespective of their race!
This wouldn't be a problem if America didn't claim to be a single nation with all its citizens sharing the same national identity & loyalty to the American state. But America does make this claim, & that is the problem.
This is what Americans need to talk about.
This is what Americans need to talk about.
America's claim to nationhood was also the cause of the Civil War, which was all about preserving the Union & POWER of the state, far more than it was about ending slavery.
Slavery would have come to an end in the South before long, without the need for war.
Slavery would have come to an end in the South before long, without the need for war.
Hundreds of thousands of (mainly white) young American lives) were sacrificed - for what?
For a mercenary patron state deceitfully posing as a nation, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites & the immense wealth & power they wield & abuse.
For a mercenary patron state deceitfully posing as a nation, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites & the immense wealth & power they wield & abuse.
America is not a genuine nation, as its founding fathers had hoped it would become, but, like Britain, a pseudo nation, based on lies, deceit & a regime of rewards & intimidation.
When we're taught to identify with our country & its flag, we are being taught to love #BigBrother.
When we're taught to identify with our country & its flag, we are being taught to love #BigBrother.
This is a difficult & painful truth to recognise & accept, but the truth it is, like the inherent non-sustainability of our grossly materialistic, mercenary, rapacious & driven global economy, on our finite, vulnerable & overpopulated planet, Spaceship Earth. 
Both these truths, which our academics elites (the official arbiters of truth & wisdom) are refusing to face up to, have profound implications for the survival of western civilisation.
Q. Why is mainstream #SocialScienceAcademia refusing to face up to these existential truths?
A. For the same reason that medieval academics refused to face up to ideas which contradicted THEIR authority & ideology. It's as simple & as banal as that.
A. For the same reason that medieval academics refused to face up to ideas which contradicted THEIR authority & ideology. It's as simple & as banal as that.
#SocialScienceAcademia provides the brains & moral authority, which the rest of society relies on for guidance.
Guidance that is deeply flawed, which I can explain, but only social scientists themselves can correct.
Guidance that is deeply flawed, which I can explain, but only social scientists themselves can correct.
