timschochet
Footballguy
This subject eventually jumps to the heart of the majority of all of our political discussions. Consider:
1. It was a central issue in the elections of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
2. It's central to the NFL issue.
3. It's central to the Confederate statue issue, and it dominates every historical discussion we have about this country.
4. If it's not central to the gun control issue, it certainly plays an important role.
African-Americans have never been more than 15% of the population of this country (currently its 12.7%), yet they have and continue to dominate our culture, our entertainment, our political thought. They are our national obsession. (Or, to paraphrase Nietzsche, they are our abyss, and we can't stop staring into it, and it stares back.)
I am currently reading We Were Eight Years in Power, a series of essays by Ta Nehisi Coates. This guy is one of the most thoughtful and insightful writers I have ever encountered on all aspects of this subject, and I plan on bringing up many of his ideas in this thread.
1. It was a central issue in the elections of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
2. It's central to the NFL issue.
3. It's central to the Confederate statue issue, and it dominates every historical discussion we have about this country.
4. If it's not central to the gun control issue, it certainly plays an important role.
African-Americans have never been more than 15% of the population of this country (currently its 12.7%), yet they have and continue to dominate our culture, our entertainment, our political thought. They are our national obsession. (Or, to paraphrase Nietzsche, they are our abyss, and we can't stop staring into it, and it stares back.)
I am currently reading We Were Eight Years in Power, a series of essays by Ta Nehisi Coates. This guy is one of the most thoughtful and insightful writers I have ever encountered on all aspects of this subject, and I plan on bringing up many of his ideas in this thread.
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