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To: goldworldnet who wrote (98980)	3/20/2005 11:51:56 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Respond to of 108807

I don't think there was either. The truth is I'm not a weekly Church guy and I have my issues with established religion like most other people do. But I'm noticing a trend in our culture that has made it the cool thing to do to question everything that has been part of American tradition. Every other culture, country and religion seem to be superior to us if you listen to some of our college professors. Yet with each tradition we destroy we become more divided. You'll take less shit for being Muslim than for being Christian in this country because anything contrary to popular, majority history is cool and superior to US redneck thinking. Our society isn't perfect and we make mistakes. But we've gotten where we are because of not in spite of our cultural values and beliefs. The problem is we've been hijacked by a generation of malcontents and the children that grew up under these suspect parents. The decay in traditional values shows in the behavior of our society. There's a division bell ringing loudly and we better heed its warning and get back to basics or its going to take generations to repair. It makes me think of a black lady I met from Madagascar not too long ago. She's highly educated, speaks English wonderfully but she's only been in the US for a few years. Her kids are great but they asked her a question one day that she didn't have the answer to. Her kids said "Mom, why is it that kids with our color skin are always causing trouble in school?" My jaw dropped because this just isn't the kind of conversation I've ever had with a black person. But the answer was obvious. Slavery and the poverty that followed the black culture in this country has been like a ball and chain. Not many have been able to cleanly escape its impact yet slavery itself ended 140 years ago or so. What does this have to do with what I was talking about above? Generations! We still see the impact on black America 140 years later and thats EXACTLY what we're going to be facing if we allow political correctness and pettiness continue to dilute our traditions. The destruction of tradition and values in the name of PC, diversity, civil rights, racism, genderism (< new word <g>) and all the other ways we can find to divide ourselves will be our undoing unless we step in and put a halt to it. Maybe its time we start looking for the things that make us similar and give hope rather than concentrate on everything that is wrong. The generations of wimps we have now would have NEVER made it past the depression or WWII. We'd have folded because too many people are weak at their core.