Because our lives are
short, we tend to see history as a linear progression of events,
evolving from what we personally know from our own past, that we then
project into the future.
Historians and students
of history, however, understand that history is cyclical. The linear
progression we see for ourselves is only a small section of greater
repetitive cycles that last for generations.
The people of our nation
have now been purposefully pitted against each other along racial,
financial, and political lines, a division that will, likely, never
heal. These divisions are, for the most part, real and have a basis in
history and fact. They are part of the normal human condition. In any
population, people have different abilities, aptitudes, skin colors,
sizes, strengths, etc. Our founders, recognizing this, gave us a system
of government that created equal opportunity based on individual effort
and responsibility . . . not a guarantee of equal outcomes.
What has changed is the deliberate creation of hostility and animosity.
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