"Refusing to break the chain" - Tom Sullivan in Digby

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https://digbysblog.net/2023/04/16/refusing-to-break-the-chain/

Why can’t we have the nice things that other wealthy nations have few problems providing them for their populations? It’s not just the greed and the power-hungriness of America’s richest. It’s race. But that’s impolite to mention.

The nation’s trouble is not that it has a racist bone that simply needs removing but that it is disturbingly slow to recognize that racism is the sharp pain that helps us locate the fractures. I write about race because finding the fractures in our society and our democracy is a necessary step toward healing and strengthening, not destroying, the whole of the nation.

Race is that locked door of the mind behind which our macho, therapy-averse culture refuses to look. Until it does, the pathologies will pass from generation to generation as in dysfunctional families.

“Shame is a toxic emotion, and it often causes people to direct hostility outward rather than inward,” Peter Wehner wrote last week.

We have yet to break the chain.

This is a great editorial based largely on Theodore Johnson's piece in the WaPo "You cannot love America and avoid the topic of race"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/12/writing-race-topic-matters/
Archived: https://archive.ph/XbrM5

The video at the end of the digsbyblog piece is also excellent.