If you are old enough to be surprised that Nigeria is #8 in the world in people connected to the Internet, then you are old enough to know who Tom Robinson was (the accused in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee) and old enough to know who Willie Horton was (scary escaped inmate in anti- Democratic ads run in the south in 1988 elections).
New FBI Director James Comey gave a very honest and provoking speech last week about "racism". Better than any of my rants. Two basic points stick out.
What is unique about "e-waste" and the jailing of #FreeHurricaneBenson is that environmental police are reacting to the same kind of panicked finger-pointing described in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Eco Fundamentalists - the proponents of radical fundamentalist Basel Convention Amendment interpretations (that anything with a circuit board is "waste", even if the circuit board is being reused or repaired or electively upgraded) so believe in themselves, that their leader actually says "Joe Benson is collateral damage".
Sure, and Tom Robinson was "collateral damage" in the war on rape. Rape's such a horrible crime, that a "Willie Horton" description of Robinson is accepted for the protection of society.
New FBI Director James Comey gave a very honest and provoking speech last week about "racism". Better than any of my rants. Two basic points stick out.
- The Police, historically, enforce the status quo. That includes Jim Crow laws. Cops were on the bad side of the firehose in civil rights marches. That history brings with it some baggage which has to be addressed in the open.
- University research of human psychology indicates that everyone has a certain distrust of the unfamiliar, probably through evolution. Almost everyone, of all colors, has some subconscious racial distrust.
What is unique about "e-waste" and the jailing of #FreeHurricaneBenson is that environmental police are reacting to the same kind of panicked finger-pointing described in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Eco Fundamentalists - the proponents of radical fundamentalist Basel Convention Amendment interpretations (that anything with a circuit board is "waste", even if the circuit board is being reused or repaired or electively upgraded) so believe in themselves, that their leader actually says "Joe Benson is collateral damage".
Sure, and Tom Robinson was "collateral damage" in the war on rape. Rape's such a horrible crime, that a "Willie Horton" description of Robinson is accepted for the protection of society.
