Prejudice And Racism

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I was sitting with my wife watching the tele, a rarity in that most of my leisure time is spent reading, my wife is not a big tele fan but it was on, and we were sitting, and such was my experience. The segment that appeared was of a US senator describing what he called his mission to encourage people to be more American, better patriots. This in fact was old news in that the exploits of this particular politician was becoming more and more famous. He was known to actually weep during what I can only call rants of how people have loss the spirit of what it means to be American and so on and so forth... While listening to the gentleman, an interview a bit more subdued than his usual spiel, I felt that people who seem to throw themselves headlong into a cause, be it political or religious, seem to be evading a personal concern, and using a social one in order to mask something more individual, something more personally sensitive... Not being much of a political enthusiast, I have taken note of certain figures in history which in my opinion, had gone too far to be genuine. That is, at some point an individual should change directions of a particular view, or retire from it completely... …show more content…
Everything is evolutionary, and where there is no evolution, we may infer that a bit of insincerity is at play... A person is merely hiding behind a smoke screen of concern, and what really bugs them is something more

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