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I had a conversation with a woman today on a related issue: Basically, a book of photos came out and one of the shots rubbed me the wrong way. It was a photo of someone I've met once and have become friendly with online. Another friend help me understand my feelings and explained they were, in essence reacting to the women simply because of the way she looks. She pointed out that dark skinned Black women have the additional burden of having to worry about looking like a golliwog simply because of their physical features. This is something that a white woman, or even a light skinned Black woman, never has to worry about. Now I know some of you all have been trying to explain this to me in one way or another but sometimes you have to hear it, in real time, to understand. The sister I was talking to was not telling me I need to completely eliminate my thoughts that these photos might indeed be racist, and these issues are worth contemplating. She did not feel the Viola photo was racist and thought it was a nice photo. While I still can't get myself to like the photo, I have to pull back on my impression the ideal that it is racist.

@Delano, what is your take on the article?

@Delano This article is good to read! Thank you. But also, it hurts. It is pretty interesting too, that the author is a White man and he really struck at my core because of his candidness about White Supremacy and his viewpoint about President Trump. This part really hit me to core: " Trump’s nationalistic right-wing populism, which scapegoats immigrants and minorities to deflect rage from Cohn and his fellow profiteers, is nothing new. " And they he wrote about the villian in the book the Great Gatsby: "the plutocratic villain of The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, is a white supremacist prone to observations like “if we don’t look out the white race will be … utterly submerged” and “It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” …" Lastly, what really caught my eye was when he wrote that only two years after this book was published around 1925, a budding real estate developer was arrested at a KU KLUX KLAN riot named FRED TRUMP!!! My my my... And then this author of this article ended with this painful statement in that; "...The rest is history inexorably leading America to this dark place where, nearly a century later, the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock is so distant it just may be in China." The American Dream is gone for so many people except for maybe as he wrote the one percenters. Again, thank you for posting this article. Like this auther said, so much has changed since 911 Attacks and even since the past 10 years ago; 2008.

Hi @Troy This is an article about the Constitutional Crisis by Robert Reich. https://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-we-are-living-constitutional-crisis-opinion-969154

@Delano always go with the last thing I wrote. Have you never changed your mind or corrected an mistake? After I made that first post i recalled a brother that I met that claimed to be virgin when he got married. I considered not sharing but then I felt it would be less than honest.