As a governed people, it is up to us to decide what is legal and what is not, isn't it? In a representative republic, the people at large decide what is a crime and what is not. Or so we have been told since grade school. Look around. Does it seem that way to you in today's America?
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There's an old saying that goes "Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" (paraphrase). On the subject of RACE, that is most assuredly us. Every time we start to go down the right path, we get bumped off it and back into negative, self-destructive behavior by people who have a vested interest in seeing us perpetually divided.