Judging by the emails I'm getting, my prediction in the previous piece of this article was spot on. I pissed more than a few of you off. I'm cool with that. The subject matter is much too important to the future of our nation to risk nothing with half-stepping and measured language. The problem is truth, not racism.
prejudice
If you've made it this far in this article, I'm glad. It means that I'm either pissing you off beyond belief, you are interested in what I have to say, or absolutely NOTHING is on Netflix worth watching today. In any case, please read on. Race is one of the most pressing issues in this nation today and is a bellwether to a much larger movement that is dominating our culture now and has been for more than 50 years.
The charge of racism is bandied about so often, in my view, that is has diminished in value to nothing but a pejorative. It is wielded like a sword against anyone who disagrees with another person's position, isn't following the enforced rules of how and why a person is SUPPOSED to think or act, or simply just to label someone with whom you don't like. In other words, it's used for everything but to describe what it actually is. So let's take this time in this piece of the article to define and describe RACISM and delineate it from the other 2 words in our trifecta, PREJUDICE and BIGOTRY