Burnin' and Lootin'

[malthaussen]

10. Mother was right for the elders, but youth must be served, too.

Reminds me of Cat Stevens's song "Father and Son." The line "From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen" could serve as a cry from the hearts of the disenfranchised. Anyone who is not a white male (or fellow traveller) in this country is quickly ordered to sit down and shut up as soon as they raise their heads. As pointed out upthread, violence is no answer, but it sure gets attention. The wrong kind of attention, though.

I'm pretty convinced at this point that the US is just going to have to wait until demographics takes its toll and a generation of bigoted white males dies off to make room for the rising generation. But then I look at a few representatives of that rising generation, and I'm not so sure that we will just see more of the same (or they will; I'll be dead by then). Some adjustments will have to be made, and it may get pretty ugly for those who heretofore held all the cards.

Of one thing I am also pretty certain: whatever adjustments are made in the future, the Indians will still get the shaft. They just don't have the numbers to get heard.

-- Mal