No Answers Just More Questions

No Answers… Just More Questions

After more than 15 years living away from America I think I have learned a few things about societies and the way they accept or exclude certain people.

My own country has had what I have always thought was a bizarre take on race & inclusion, who will be let in and who will be pushed to the outer ring of society seemed to be based solely on the our very familiar two colour scheme, but from where I sit now that idea seems painfully simplistic.
It is now becoming clearer to me what the real basis of American hierarchical structure is built upon, and to my surprise it is in fact not really any different to those same types of social structures of any other culture, and has much less to do with the colour line than I would have ever believed.
Could it be that the old idea of black versus white was never truly what it was really about?
Could it be that a lifetime in “the struggle”(both sides of it) makes one blind to the realities?
Could it be true that the real issue at the bottom of it all is the same one that has plagued mankind throughout history?
A very simple and basic struggle for power that would have panned out the same no matter who was at the top, or what race they called their own.
Just look around the world and you’ll see that’s true
Now don’t get me wrong here I’m not one of those that think that race plays no part in all the troubles that the world has had because as a black American I can tell you, it certainly has, but it is far from the root of the problem.
How did it all get so complicated and how did race get involved?

There are people on all sides of the issue that believe that race is the one and only factor that decides who is good and who is evil, lets just call these folks “suckers” then there are those that believe that our differences are something that must be tolerated… This idea that sprung from post modernist political correctness fits only the most delusional thinkers so lets just call them “dilusionals”.

In my opinion the real crux of it all is in those age-old bugaboos money and power, both of which corrupt the soul… if you let them.
So what if we got rid of them both?
This of course would not work because we are still children that cannot think past our basic instincts, our needs and wants still predominate our thoughts and lives.
Just think, we can’t even stop our dependence upon dangerous fossil fuels or cigarettes even as we see them choking the life from our planet and ourselves, so how can we be expected to live together peacefully?
There are more and more political, psychological & sociological reasons proffered each day to rationalize away the simple fact that society is driving itself into a very large and metaphorical ditch but though the ditch may be a metaphor the injuries are all too real.
I think it’s time that we revoke the societal driving licence, put the old jalopy on blocks and get off the road till we can stop killing each other.