Kathianne
09-03-2015, 08:30 AM
Some want hate and the headlines that go with it. Most don't.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/02/american-people-lead-racial-healing-not-division-column/71578294/
<section id="module-position-OZO8vwSnm3Y" class="storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">Glenn Reynolds: Ordinary Americans lead the way on racial healing</section>Glenn Harlan Reynolds8:11 a.m. EDT September 3, 2015
n a now-famous tweet, Jon Gabriel wryly remarked (http://twitter.com/exjon/status/537007913353883649), "My favorite part about the Obama era is all the racial healing.”
In the public sphere, that racial healing is indeed sufficiently scarce to justify sarcasm. Charges and countercharges of racism fill the air. Accused killers ranging from the white Dylann Roof (http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/27/shooting-tv-vester-flanagan-wdbj-allison-parker-adam-ward-mastio-column/32473827/) in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Charleston, South Carolina" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">Charleston, S.C.</culink>, to the black Vester Flanagan in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Roanoke, Virginia" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">Roanoke, Va.</culink>, left racial manifestos (http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-alleged-gunman-details-grievances-suicide-notes/story?id=33336339) and hoped to start a race war. And even more mainstream political figures have pursued strategies of racial division and agitation, hoping to keep key voting blocs fired up for next year’s elections.
But if you leave the politicians, the pundits and the crazies aside, ordinary Americans are behaving quite differently. Maybe we should be paying more attention to that bit of good news. And maybe so should the politicians and pundits.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/02/american-people-lead-racial-healing-not-division-column/71578294/
<section id="module-position-OZO8vwSnm3Y" class="storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">Glenn Reynolds: Ordinary Americans lead the way on racial healing</section>Glenn Harlan Reynolds8:11 a.m. EDT September 3, 2015
n a now-famous tweet, Jon Gabriel wryly remarked (http://twitter.com/exjon/status/537007913353883649), "My favorite part about the Obama era is all the racial healing.”
In the public sphere, that racial healing is indeed sufficiently scarce to justify sarcasm. Charges and countercharges of racism fill the air. Accused killers ranging from the white Dylann Roof (http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/27/shooting-tv-vester-flanagan-wdbj-allison-parker-adam-ward-mastio-column/32473827/) in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Charleston, South Carolina" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">Charleston, S.C.</culink>, to the black Vester Flanagan in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Roanoke, Virginia" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">Roanoke, Va.</culink>, left racial manifestos (http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-alleged-gunman-details-grievances-suicide-notes/story?id=33336339) and hoped to start a race war. And even more mainstream political figures have pursued strategies of racial division and agitation, hoping to keep key voting blocs fired up for next year’s elections.
But if you leave the politicians, the pundits and the crazies aside, ordinary Americans are behaving quite differently. Maybe we should be paying more attention to that bit of good news. And maybe so should the politicians and pundits.
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