America 2.9

So I'm playing around with this idea. A conversation on race, privilege, and change I have been watching from the sidelines. Occasionally, I would jump in and have a round or two myself. The idea is about a reboot, a point of reconciliation and awareness that allows people in America to assume a mature relational standpoint on race and racial existence in this country.

Class divsion has been a fact of "civilization", probably long before air quotes had been "invented". The haves and the have-nots, the want-mores and the have-mores, the history of the known world is rife with examples of how this almost basic result of social grouping has been the catalyst for explosive change. The division has also been the scaffolding that has over time built civilization up to its current heights, skyscrapers of strain, hope, sweat, tears, and sheer practicality. This division seems to be both the engine that drives civilization, and the terrible beast that stalks it. Occasionally the engine will stall, slowing progress and allowing that beast to catch up. Or the engine siezes, at best giving everyone a Category 5 dosage of reality, or at worst a global dissonance as the wracked din of its own terrible reckoning. Humanity as its own best friend and worst enemy, or in theological terms, more of the same.