Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs NONEPOSSESS, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and SONS from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and SISTERS; the FEMALE is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.
But it all came, and for me, HIP-HOP has done more for RACIAL divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the LAST 30 YEARS. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like SOMEBODY like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.
Fortunately, in President Obama, the CHILD of an African and an American, we finally have a LEADER who is uniquely positioned to bridge the GREAT reparations divide.
What I worry about is the lack of understanding in SOCIETYAROUND the WORLD that there is a DIVIDE in the world between those who have and those who do not.
There are SEVERAL places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second GRADE in CLASS, so they don't have a GENDER divide because EVERYBODY is expected to program.
I THINK, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into TWO species, EVEN though we are monotypic. There are males and FEMALES. We see them as different and not EQUAL.
In 1918, GERMANYSUFFERED the ghastly consequences of defeat; FRANCE suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and CULTURE and lead to its defeat in 1940.
I GREW up here, and it's ALWAYS been a very diverse community. So for people to COME out and say that there's some long-standing anger or there's a history of racial tension is ABSOLUTELY ridiculous. There's not a black-white DIVIDE in Ferguson.