The Washington Times says, "Violence,
riots do not materialize after George Zimmerman's verdict, but some in the media
cry foul".
I watched a little of the Zimmerman trial. How could I avoid it? For a while, there was nothing else on TV news.
I concluded that it was, what I call "serious entertainment". That is, it lacked jokes, singing, and dancing. It was more like sports or soap operas. Much like sports and soap operas, there was an emotional overtone, which for my personality normally escapes me.
However, I do not deny that emotional overtones can be extremely important, especially economically. When a particular soccer team loses a sporting event, a large segment of the public has been known to riot and inflict considerable damage on mostly property but also some people. I suppose the Zimmerman trial was ripe for such a reaction.
However, this started me to thinking that these group emotional reactions can be especially dangerous and need control. It seems that I'm not alone in this approach, and various local authorities did their best to control any outbreaks of violence. My hat also goes off to the families of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman for their statements, which minimized riot incitement. There is also something a little deeper in this situation.. Normally sport riots are promulgated by a feeling of injustice in the latest event itself. In the case of the Zimmerman trial, we had racial overtones of unjustness that go back to slavery and the Civil War. That's not good. It's equivalent to why the Turks and the Greeks are continually at each other's throats, and why the Jews and Arabs are constantly trying to kill each other. We can't do much about that, with respect other countries, but this is the United States. We're supposed to be smarter and more rational through better education.
In the US, the two groups of potential adversaries are the whites and the blacks. If we are to make any progress to alleviate the negative aspects of adversarial race relations, there are many things that need to be done. The federal government has used various programs to minimize negative racial emotions, some of which have been effective, but most of them have not.
From the public side itself, I have noticed that in the past 50 years most of the whites have come to accept blacks as equal human beings. There are still a few holdouts, which I call rabble-rousers and which apparently operate not only on the basis of their hard to relinquish emotional position, but also do their rabble rousing for some other personal gain. I wonder whether some members of the media, as Indicated by the Washington Times, are in that category.
Conversely, it does not appear to me that the blacks have an equivalent good record of integration. I have several black, close, personal friends. I suppose they are close personal friends, because they engage in rational thinking, much as I do. I doubt whether they could ever be a part of a black mob rioting on the basis of an emotional persuasion. However, that still leaves a large number of blacks who are a danger to our society. As long as they persist in perceived grievances against whites, the federal government, or anything else, they cannot be productive in the development of their personal economic wealth and their culture. The Arabs have been fighting the Jews and themselves for a few thousand years, during which time they have been unable to concentrate on their own economic and cultural development. Any wealth they have, they received from the sale of one of their natural resources, specifically oil. I've also been reading about the settling of the US West. It is clear that the Western Indians were never able to develop a reasonable economic and cultural life, because they were constantly at war with each other.
What can we do about a majority of blacks who concentrate on a perceived injustice by whites or the government in the US? A perception of injustice is a state of mind, which can many times also control physical action. Therefore, in order for the US to develop a productive society, it must have the cooperation of all groups, without reticence of any one of them harboring injustice feelings. But, how does one accomplish that? I'm not a trained psychologist. I merely have long experience with people. However, this seems like a good project for our trained psychologist to work on. If we bother to properly develop the minds of our young children through school, is it anymore unreasonable that we should try to redevelop the minds of adults, who if allowed to continue in their attitudes are doing themselves a distinct injustice based on a perceived injustice by others.
One of the first things I can think of is to minimize the destructive activity of rabble-rousers, be they black or white. Most of them now seem to be black leaders, but there are few whites in the secondary category. However, this is easier said than done. With the Bill of Rights, rabble-rousers have the right to free speech, even when it is destructive in nature. The only effective approach would be to have a free speaking individual or group combating in detail any rabble rousing statements.
Another longer-term solution is to train black children in recognizing the irrationality of basing a life on perceived injustices and grudges, rather than the realism of what exists now and how it can be best develop it to their advantage. Blacks who have been able to work themselves into rational states of mind through the influence of their parents or personal education, should actually be spending more time in the teaching of black children to arrive at an equivalent position. This would lead to a greater number of blacks moving into a productive sphere of economic and cultural development, rather than the continuity of drug dealing and attempts to gain power through violence.
I watched a little of the Zimmerman trial. How could I avoid it? For a while, there was nothing else on TV news.
I concluded that it was, what I call "serious entertainment". That is, it lacked jokes, singing, and dancing. It was more like sports or soap operas. Much like sports and soap operas, there was an emotional overtone, which for my personality normally escapes me.
However, I do not deny that emotional overtones can be extremely important, especially economically. When a particular soccer team loses a sporting event, a large segment of the public has been known to riot and inflict considerable damage on mostly property but also some people. I suppose the Zimmerman trial was ripe for such a reaction.
However, this started me to thinking that these group emotional reactions can be especially dangerous and need control. It seems that I'm not alone in this approach, and various local authorities did their best to control any outbreaks of violence. My hat also goes off to the families of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman for their statements, which minimized riot incitement. There is also something a little deeper in this situation.. Normally sport riots are promulgated by a feeling of injustice in the latest event itself. In the case of the Zimmerman trial, we had racial overtones of unjustness that go back to slavery and the Civil War. That's not good. It's equivalent to why the Turks and the Greeks are continually at each other's throats, and why the Jews and Arabs are constantly trying to kill each other. We can't do much about that, with respect other countries, but this is the United States. We're supposed to be smarter and more rational through better education.
In the US, the two groups of potential adversaries are the whites and the blacks. If we are to make any progress to alleviate the negative aspects of adversarial race relations, there are many things that need to be done. The federal government has used various programs to minimize negative racial emotions, some of which have been effective, but most of them have not.
From the public side itself, I have noticed that in the past 50 years most of the whites have come to accept blacks as equal human beings. There are still a few holdouts, which I call rabble-rousers and which apparently operate not only on the basis of their hard to relinquish emotional position, but also do their rabble rousing for some other personal gain. I wonder whether some members of the media, as Indicated by the Washington Times, are in that category.
Conversely, it does not appear to me that the blacks have an equivalent good record of integration. I have several black, close, personal friends. I suppose they are close personal friends, because they engage in rational thinking, much as I do. I doubt whether they could ever be a part of a black mob rioting on the basis of an emotional persuasion. However, that still leaves a large number of blacks who are a danger to our society. As long as they persist in perceived grievances against whites, the federal government, or anything else, they cannot be productive in the development of their personal economic wealth and their culture. The Arabs have been fighting the Jews and themselves for a few thousand years, during which time they have been unable to concentrate on their own economic and cultural development. Any wealth they have, they received from the sale of one of their natural resources, specifically oil. I've also been reading about the settling of the US West. It is clear that the Western Indians were never able to develop a reasonable economic and cultural life, because they were constantly at war with each other.
What can we do about a majority of blacks who concentrate on a perceived injustice by whites or the government in the US? A perception of injustice is a state of mind, which can many times also control physical action. Therefore, in order for the US to develop a productive society, it must have the cooperation of all groups, without reticence of any one of them harboring injustice feelings. But, how does one accomplish that? I'm not a trained psychologist. I merely have long experience with people. However, this seems like a good project for our trained psychologist to work on. If we bother to properly develop the minds of our young children through school, is it anymore unreasonable that we should try to redevelop the minds of adults, who if allowed to continue in their attitudes are doing themselves a distinct injustice based on a perceived injustice by others.
One of the first things I can think of is to minimize the destructive activity of rabble-rousers, be they black or white. Most of them now seem to be black leaders, but there are few whites in the secondary category. However, this is easier said than done. With the Bill of Rights, rabble-rousers have the right to free speech, even when it is destructive in nature. The only effective approach would be to have a free speaking individual or group combating in detail any rabble rousing statements.
Another longer-term solution is to train black children in recognizing the irrationality of basing a life on perceived injustices and grudges, rather than the realism of what exists now and how it can be best develop it to their advantage. Blacks who have been able to work themselves into rational states of mind through the influence of their parents or personal education, should actually be spending more time in the teaching of black children to arrive at an equivalent position. This would lead to a greater number of blacks moving into a productive sphere of economic and cultural development, rather than the continuity of drug dealing and attempts to gain power through violence.
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