There's Room For You Inside

Earlier in a history lesson, which I must confess is my favourite subject ( I've spent a month dressed up as a Roman working at an event with a museum), we were shown some photos of the KKK that my history teacher had dug up. And, before you ask, I know this was 80 years ago. The photos were of the members of a protest march down the street of an urban city, which wasn't named. And in one photo, the band of white going down a street stretched as far as the eye could see. That in itself was horrifying enough, but we were then shown another photo which showed that each of these members were confident enough to show their faces. Sick.

How can a government whose ideals were based on the principals of democracy, free speech and freedom, be so corrupt that it will ignore such an event? (As I've said - I'm Welsh, not American, so if you think I shouldn't be commenting, consider that America is the global superpower, and therefore has a global group of critics.) This also goes for the gangster issue, but that can be put down to the government's own stupidity, which is so common I think I can ignore it for now. But why have such an open immigration policy if you are only going to abuse and oppress the immigrants? Yes, that policy was modified, but it was too late.

As a Socialist, I have never blamed the policy on the problems that happened. I've always thought that it was the only immigration that made sense. However, I do blame the people. Before this goes further, I will just state that I'm not saying that all the people who were discriminated against are perfect, nor am I saying that all the WASPs were bad. But when such an overwhelming majority shows signs of racism like this, and the government does nothing, there is a problem. Either with the president, or his inferiors, someone must step in and try to sort it out. Why was the KKK given so much power and allowed to go for so long unopposed? What type of incompetence ignores such a thing?

Racism is a horrible thing. It's so unnecessary, so stupid and so sickening, it's hard to imagine that the same species that has developed so far managed to even conceive the notion. I don't want to preach here, or anywhere else, but it's hard to imagine that over two hundred years after slavery was abolished, and after a world war was fought over basic freedom, that people can still be racist. My only answer to the problem would be to discriminate the racists in the way that they discriminated others. They are the only people who deserve such a treatment.