I don't think that the tea party is going to be able to take America back to the 50's, too much as changed. A friend of mine sent me an e-mail which really illustrates this point. He wrote:
Amid all the clamor in public debate ---every now and then a snapshot speaks volumes about our culture –as does people’s reaction to the photo.
Look at the next photo in the attached photo gallery. For some reason it touched my heart about America ---and I couldn’t stop gazing at it. Black and Brown Presidents walking in front of an incredibly diverse crowd of school children and a few adults. Compare it w White House lawn photos of 50’s , 60s and even 70's.
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The wide eyed joy and wonderment on the kids faces. A few other adults who are more sanguine either due to maturity or detachment. The seriousness of the task that Secret Service agents bring to their jobs at all times.
How America has and is changing.
What’s more---this is the type of photo that probably elicits very different reactions—particularly on the eve of an anticipated divisive immigration reform debate---based on the viewer’s life perspective. It touched me very deeply.
It reminds me of 2 other photos that offer similar commentary on different world views.
The famous 1965 photo of Cassius Clay standing triumphantly over a fallen Sonny Liston (click on photo to see enlarged image) while the background was full of “objective “ journalists and photographers with looks of disgust and amazement on their faces.
The 1974 photo of Ali’s knockout of George Foreman in Zaire with a background picture of unanimous unadulterated ectasy amongst the Black Africans.
This one is similarly etched in my mind as an updated snapshot of where we are in history.
Your assumption that American values have or will change because there are more people in America now with dark skin than there used to be, is a racist assumption.Why would you assume that people with X skin color will naturally have different values than people with Y skin color?Liberals have built the lie that the values of the Democratic party are those that are geared toward helping minorities.Yet look at the big cities of America, nearly all of them ruled by a tight cadre of Democrats in the political and educational realm, and nearly all of them forcing minorities to endure sub-substandard education, poor law enforcement leading to emboldened criminals and rampant crime, poor job opportunities because so much of the nations wealth is sucked into the government bureaucracy, etc.
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