[MD] the empire

[Woods Woods]

mel:
It is human nature that we never know the limit of a tool until
we exceed that limit.  So it is with social tinkering.  Both the
government bureaucracies, as enshrined policy, and folks
in the ivory tower, as holy writ of their victory over the low quality
of  segregation, have stuck with a form of racial thinking that
is indeed dicriminatiory.  But they are often blind to it.




woods:
    Was this the basis of Ham's post?  Was Ham pointing out 
the "social tinkering" from the Ivory Tower in these gov't 
legislations?  This would be a bold intellectual pursuit that 
might be something to bravery pursue.  Not race and the violent 
conflicts of race on race (undoubtably immoral), but a more 
intellectual debatable pursuit of the legislation coming from the 
top-down/ivory tower?  Is this what was meant?  
    A solution is instead the sliding ZMM over, as Craig's quote 
noted, where we begin with the experience, the quieting of the 
mind, values, and then go out from there.



woods