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In reply to the discussion: Ohio Community Lives in Fear as Rifle-Toting White Man Stalks Black Neighborhoods With Impunity [View all]2naSalit
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perhaps demonstrates the strength of an American cultural myth. Everybody knows about the wild west of the 19th up to mid 20th - at least - century America and how cowboys wore pistols on their hips and gentlemen had theirs tuck away somewhere and as the film industry glorifies, shootings could take place anytime anywhere... it was presented as normal and often solved a perceived problem sans negotiation attempts.
In some social groups, the idea of keeping that mythic time and place alive yet applied to the 21st century world is their mission in life. Complete with the disfranchisement of all but white landholders in all ways, equality was not a forward concept and as is now, little anticipation of justice of any kind. This is what our political opposition is fighting for.
It would be nice if future generations could look back and call this time and our most immediate future, and proclaim a new awakening in humanity that benefited all life on the planet.