Reply #2: Because I am human [View All]

[The Traveler]

I reserve the right to decide for myself if statements or behaviors are irrational, and if I find them so then I, too, get to express my opinion. The color of your skin, your gender, your religion, or your ancestral heritage provide no relief from the requirement to be reasonable and rational. Tolerance cannot be achieved through intolerance.

Having said that, I feel (as a pale assed Irish-American white boy who definitely cannot dance)we need to cut the brothers and sisters a little slack on this topic. Bigotry is alive and well and deeply ingrained in the system. Anyone here who thinks race and economic class are not the significant factors in, for just one example, the determination of sentences passed by our system of jurisprudence simply has not been paying attention. Hypersensitivity is only to be expected ... a nerve beaten raw by years of abuse is likely to react badly to even the slightest touch.