The United States of America. A left leaning? populace of former and recent immigrants from countries and cultures that originated beyond the borders of their current homeland have one thing in common. Unless you are of Native American ancestry, you did not have any claim to this land or this country before yourself or someone in your family, at some time in relatively recent history, moved here to this country for whatever reasons they came here.
A majority of people moved to The United States of America to make a better life for themselves and their families. Others followed in the footsteps and wakes of ships arriving in our country in order to be re-united with their family members that took up the challenge of uprooting themselves and starting anew.
There is another side of the coin, however. Many immigrants to our country have come here to escape the simple fact that where they lived previously, they came under attack as being minorities and were discriminated against because of this. The mindset of majorities in any situation throughout history is to continue to hold those "not like you" in contempt or at the very least as less than equal.
How then, in the potpourri of humanity that we call America does something like bigotry and racisism still come into play as obviously as it does today?
Resolution may be near between students and bar accused of racism
An agreement could be reached before week's end between Washington University students and an Illinois nightclub that allegedly barred six African-American students while admitting nearly 200 of their white classmates.
Fernando Cutz, senior class president at the university in Missouri, said the aggrieved students have been in contact with lawyers representing Original Mother's, a bar in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood.
The two sides expect a resolution to their dispute as early as Wednesday, Cutz said. He did not, however, say what the students were demanding or why he was optimistic that a deal could be struck.
The students complained to state and federal agencies after six African-American members from their senior class trip celebration were denied admission to the club on October 17.
Bar personnel cited dress code violations -- specifically baggy jeans -- in barring the African-American students, Cutz said.
A white student and a black student then exchanged jeans to see what would happen. The white student was admitted, while his classmate still was kept outside, Cutz said.
Dress codes. Codes? Codes of skin color? Codes of religious beliefs? Codes of social status? What code is it that gives another human being the right to discriminate against another person on the basis of any of the above? I would suggest that it is the Code of Cowardice.
I have three children, all in their 20's. They do not carry these Codes within their DNA nor within their minds. Perhaps here in America, our children's generation will finally put bigotry on the back burner at the very least, and hopefully they will outlaw it within their beings and banish it from their offspring.
Teach your children well....