2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If I were going to attend that conference at the Vatican, which [View all]TheBlackAdder
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American settlers and Spaniards used Christianity as a means to eradicate millions of Native Americans and to steal most of their land and possessive assets. Forced religious indoctrination was performed taking young children across the country, away from the influences of their family and tribes. These are the American Christian church legacies. All American Christian variants share these common roots. But, it's so easy to pick on one community as being more corrupt than another, and ignore the fact that our very existence was dependent on that history unfolding and shaping European, American, and World societies.
I brought up institutional disruption because your support for HRC is antithetical to swift relief of the AA community, favoring a more tacit and longer drawn out form of relief using the institutional constructs of contemporary government. In light of the 150 year struggle for equality, changes were slow in coming due to the structure of the government suppressing faction and popular change.
The ERA is another issue that remains unresolved, as laws were enacted to provide just enough relief to detract and put down the desire to press forth on that issue. This is the way the US government works, by just giving enough relief to suppress faction, but retain an oligarchic structure that favors the wealthy.
It's so nice that you want equality for all, which is an entirely unrealistic venture, if you have studied world politics. But, it's so nice to say, yet all the while you support a candidate that wants to keep the current structure in place. I find that ironic.
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