Subject: Re: Another Win For President Trump
Still where? This is what pisses me off the most, where exactly does this racism live?

Ok Mike, you need to fuck off and stop lecturing about an event that happened 15 years ago and you weren't there. I'll talk to my friends ion the Philippines as I see fit. My friends asked me if the United States is racist and frankly compared to them, we are. It was an adult conversation in which I asked them about the attitudes toward Muslims in Mindanao, or the Chinese, or toward the headhunters in the mountains of Luzon. Not a one of them felt insulted about my inquiries or attempts to make comparisons.

I talked with them about the slavery that existed on the island of Cebu, and the different types and how much it was different than the type of slavery that existed in the US. About the Muslim slave traders that hit Cebu and Negros Islands, the reason for the Bell Tower in the town I was in to sound a warning that the slavers were there capturing people. And yes, also how the US made hard won progress, that it was bloody, and that the Klu Klux Klan burnt crosses in my home town and that the head of the KKK chewed a woman to death in my home state of Indiana. I told them there was a good chance my relatives were part of the KKK. That the Knights of the Golden Circle existed before the Civil War and there was a desire back than to ring the Caribbean with slave states. That a portion of the reason the Mexican American War was fought was that the Mexicans had outlawed slavery, and winning sewed the seeds for the Civil War.

Several of my friends are amateur historians, some published. I get entertained regularly with pieces on Austronesian languages and the flow begins at Taiwan and spreads across the Pacific.

I can have these types of adult conversations with my friends Mike. And no, I need no upbraiding about your hurts about what you perceive is going on. My friends would consider your responses too defensive, change the subject, and it would be your loss, Mike.
So yes, it is whining about a perceived injury because you appear to not be able to have these kind of adult conversations. We just had the BLM demonstrations during a summer and there were many places where people took their cars into the crowd. Our racism is flashed around the world Mike. I have pride in my country Mike, I served in the 82d Airborne when called, and there's a history in my family of serving going back to before it was a country. I'm a member of the SAR, Sons of the American Revolution.

I's sorry you can't have these conversations and be frankly honest that we are a racist country, and it's always there, just below the surface, and bubbles up at times - in riots, long hot summers, small skirmishes such as Charlottesville, and demagogues like George Wallace or Trump. And we haven't talked about the Indians at all so far. Some of my Filipino friends know American history better than Americans - but not my wife. so I need not try anything Mike. But, in my opinion, you need to not jump to conclusions, upbraid people about things you know nothing about, learn how to treat people respectfully in this area, and be able to have adult conversations about these subjects. We have a lot of racism in our history and there's a lot of racism still in our country. We have made lurching, painful, and bloody strides.