[TheRealThing]

^^ I have always been fascinated with the idea of money, I mean what is it really? Gold is something you dig up out of the ground as are all gem stones and the other precious metals. I mean, other than some late breaking applications in the technology field in the case of precious metals, they don't really have that much of a function. And then there has always been the jewelry industry. But it's sort of a mystery why or how the perceived wealth of those things have driven world economy since the beginning.

But as to point 3, racism is now acceptable. To award people things, and privilege, over other people based solely on race, IS the definition of racism. And BLM et-al are totally all-in on the practice. VDH is right about the college deal too. The bottom line is all D-1 blue chip athletes get scholarships, and they're really the only ones who do, openly. Under the table it's a brave new world. If you're white and not quite a D-1 blue chip athlete, most of the time you pay to go to school. Meanwhile an awful lot of the black athletes do not pay. That's just the un-aired fact of the matter.

Same is true with this idea of reparations and further, critical race theory. CRT (of late) demands that the views of white people be excluded from the conversation. What we have now as the result are exclusively, the views of Asians, Latinos and Blacks. So whites who have evolved out of consideration in the CRT school of thought, have no voice whatever in CRT. And thus stand accused before their minority critics as suffering from white privilege, and are therefore incapable of understanding and maybe even unworthy, to take part in the discourse.

The genie is out of he bottle and IMHO the marches and violence will not ever stop. Nor will increasing demands placed on whites to just shut up and take it. If government are in on it, one can see that the predominate race in America has been totally outflanked and are therefore left without option. Instead of having a Speaker of the House whose 'go-to,' is throwing the people's checkbook at every last problem, we should insist on level headed compromise. Why? Because all Americans deserve and are promised equal representation. And frankly, the era in question happened before most people alive today were even here. But how could the white race retain equal representation just by giving CRT proponents cosigner status on the people's checkbook?

In other words the train of thought seems to be,  though the injustices leading up to the civil rights era may have been epically immoral, it's nonetheless A-okay now, for minorities to use racism as the vehicle to carry them to an acceptable level of restitution. VDH is right, and both sides of this mess better figure out how to forgive each other if we are to get past it.
CRT--   https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/...text=cjlpp