EDITORIAL: Racism is absolutely atrocious
Issue date: 3/31/09 Section: Opinion
Seemingly misplaced in an age which marks the ascension of an African-American to the highest halls of political power, racial bigotry and hatred rear their ugly heads in both the mainstream of pop culture and the undercurrent of suburban society.
Science illuminates the very unified nature of all life and clearly dismisses many fallacies of the past involving race. One may even question the validity of the word race. For a serious lack of a better expression, "people are people." No longer is the hierarchy of race determined by the over-exaggerated phenotypic characteristics of a particular ethnicity.
While intellectuals may take what we are saying as a principle, much of the uneducated still find excuses to justify their repugnantly brutish and provincial attitudes.
A reformed neo-Nazi recently spoke at LBCC. He identified the causes and effects of his own fall into violent racism. Eventually pulling himself from the quagmire of his own hate - a hate he admitted stemmed from his environment - T.J. Leyden turned from a life of radical "separatism." The separatism idealized an American state in which no ethnic group divergent from the norm could exist.
Highlighting the emergence of nationalist-socialist iconography in popular art, the increasing violence of radical groups, and a form of implicit state-support as expressed by the military's complacency in dealing with neo-Nazi's in its ranks, led Leyden to the conclusion that active measures must be taken to prevent massive social upheavals in the near future.
Leyden stressed the need to censor music and art, which may convey racist material to a youthful and impressionable audience.
Unfortunately, one need only remember the tag team duo of Susan Baker-Tipper Gore to appreciate the grand failure that is censorship. Is the media representation of hate the stimulus or response of hate? In other words, would removing the products of a hateful society mitigate the hate in said society?
Science illuminates the very unified nature of all life and clearly dismisses many fallacies of the past involving race. One may even question the validity of the word race. For a serious lack of a better expression, "people are people." No longer is the hierarchy of race determined by the over-exaggerated phenotypic characteristics of a particular ethnicity.
While intellectuals may take what we are saying as a principle, much of the uneducated still find excuses to justify their repugnantly brutish and provincial attitudes.
A reformed neo-Nazi recently spoke at LBCC. He identified the causes and effects of his own fall into violent racism. Eventually pulling himself from the quagmire of his own hate - a hate he admitted stemmed from his environment - T.J. Leyden turned from a life of radical "separatism." The separatism idealized an American state in which no ethnic group divergent from the norm could exist.
Highlighting the emergence of nationalist-socialist iconography in popular art, the increasing violence of radical groups, and a form of implicit state-support as expressed by the military's complacency in dealing with neo-Nazi's in its ranks, led Leyden to the conclusion that active measures must be taken to prevent massive social upheavals in the near future.
Leyden stressed the need to censor music and art, which may convey racist material to a youthful and impressionable audience.
Unfortunately, one need only remember the tag team duo of Susan Baker-Tipper Gore to appreciate the grand failure that is censorship. Is the media representation of hate the stimulus or response of hate? In other words, would removing the products of a hateful society mitigate the hate in said society?
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