Thread by @tobeequal

I can only imagine what slavery was like, but I know firsthand about Jim Crow; and for the government to dictate where I could live, who I could marry, what job I could have, with whom I could socialize, where I could go to school, or what public facilities - bus, water fountain,

2/ even toilet - I was allowed to use, is not remotely the kind of paradigm that I want for any human being. Certainly, America should resist in the strongest of terms any idea designed and implemented that would suggest a return to that era.

3/ My country is confronted with, perhaps, the most serious challenge of its remarkable history. In many parts of my country, especially in my home state of CA, many of my fellow citizens are living under tents, on public streets.

Criminal violence and disrespect for the

4/rights and property of others is at such a level that many law-abiding citizens are afraid to venture beyond the boundaries of their own personal property.

While, for generations, Americans have devoted considerable time and effort to the mission of not judging each other by

5/skin color and other characteristics of identity, various public officials are proposing guaranteed income programs that would be restricted to specific households based on race, even denying access to specific press representatives based on race. There is an undeniable

6/appearance of hate, anti-white, and anti-semitism attached to many of their

activities, although their hate is often couched in terms like “white supremacy,” “white privilege,” and “underrepresented minority.” They are even introducing race into schools and teaching our children to attach significance to race. Our fellow citizens “of color” are being

7/lured back into the darkness of fear and paranoia by misguided and unproven claims of oppression and “systemic racism” directed at people “of color.” This effort to reintroduce race and skin color into the life and culture of a nation whose people have learned to be

8/color-indifferent is dangerous and threatens to tear, beyond repair, the love and respect that must exist in order for our profound diversity to function effectively.

Ironically, even as claims of systemic racism against people “of color” are being made, every day there are

9/hundreds, even thousands, of individuals “of color” who walk in extremely hot weather or rain to get to America. They walk for scores of miles, and put their lives at risk to get a little taste of “racism,” huh?
At the root of every, repeat EVERY, one of the problems cited

10/ is a political ideology inspired and promoted to gain our approval. Guess which political party is associated with this ideology!