http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8398Did Dr. King's dream die on a summer Thursday?
by Dennis Rahkonen | Jun 29 2007
I don't think I've ever feared for America's future as much as on the 28th of June, 2007.
Not even during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when I was a boy ducking down beneath the edge of our bathtub, as a radio in the next room warned of possible nuclear war at any moment, and my sudsy float toys slipped away from trembling hands.
Not on 9/11, which I'd almost come to expect, given the foreign rage that Washington's abysmally misguided policies were generating throughout especially the Islamic world.
On the third-to-last day of my favorite month, just hours ago, I clearly saw the specter of a fascist tomorrow.
The U.S. Supreme Court savaged Dr. King's dream -- and all those years of such hard struggle by so many -- by deciding that race couldn't be used in determining student make-up in our nation's schools, thereby throwing open the gates to renewed, inevitable segregation.
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Does someone harbor the Hitlerian notion that only "Aryan" kids matter, or are innately, solely capable of technical and scientific expertise? Tell that to the nonwhite Chinese, whose school children are running rings around our own in the hard sciences.
The thinly-disguised idea that "white is right," and everyone else is expendable, carries the stench of anti-Semitism from the Nazi era.
To succeed in Germany, fascism needed the Jewish straw man.
For quite some time now, the United States has been beset by decidedly dangerous, antidemocratic, right-wing ambition. Well organized, and determined.
Yesterday we saw two manifestations of a singular social malevolence that, I'm very afraid, will one day ruin America.
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