Thread by @blackrepublican

"Racism doesn't exist in America".

— Rep. #MarjorieTaylorGreene

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on what's wrong with Black and Hispanic men.

#ExpelMarjorieTaylorGreene

It's not a black/hispanic problem. It's an American problem (global problem).

And, it's also not just an individual problem.

As one conservative scholar (Roger Scruton) put it ...

"The teenage gang is a natural response to a world in which the rites of passage into adulthood are no longer offered or respected."

The breakup of the family, racism, joblessness, drugs all lead to people seeking simple answers (even myths) to fill the void, fell a sense, of this thing they've heard about; this thing called "a family, community" - even if it's a counterfeit.

But, that isn't due to one being brown or black.

Race is not Culture.
Race is not Culture.
Race is not Culture.

Roger Scruton, the conservative philosopher best summed up the difference.

"Let's be clear: culture and race have NOTHING to do with each other."

The racialist infert that it's genetic.

"Their problem is not our problem."

"Individuals create systems and systems create context and context create variables that require more than [personal] responsibility." #tcot

Individual acts of indifference, have social consequences.

Reforming while [conserving] institutions like our justice system will be the easy part

Reforming character, now, that's much MUCH harder.

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."

- James Baldwin

That's why it's important that you reach for them, grab them, before it's too late.

"The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people ---people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life..

... Poverty FREES them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work."

-- George Orwell's, "Down and Out in Paris and London".