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Sep
.
20th
,
2007
09:35 pm
)
"We can sing “kum-ba-ya” til our throats sound like Miles Davis after a bender of Sloe Drano Fizzes, but at the sick core of America, racism still infirms this country's aspiration to greatness.
"I use the word “infirms”, loosely. Because the pat analogies about America's racial “sickness” are so very,
very
flawed. Racism in America isn't a
wound
,—as so many describe it.
No
. Wounds
heal
. And it isn't a
cancer
—because you can remove a cancer, should you catch it early enough, or if not—at least bomb it with enough countering toxicity where you can seriously impede its progress.
"Racism in
America
is neither of these things—a wound,
or
a cancer.
"It
is
quite simply...akin to a living, festering parasite that feasts on the very soul of the country, and what makes it
work
. It's a vicious
tapeworm
. Picked up long ago, and living there, deep in the American belly...
it's very guts
, in fact.
Not killing
, mind you...but in there nonetheless, all slimy and sickening, so intwined with what makes this place simply exist, that it's supremely difficult to remove.
"And the host
knows
it's there. Knows it slows and sickens it with every step forward. But in the end...does nothing about it...because the effort to remove the parasite is
“just too great”
."
.
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