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Today in History
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politics won’t solve
our racial problem
When horrible things happen, such as the tragic mass
murder that occurred at Emanuel AME Church in
Charleston, South Carolina, we try to understand because it
is through understanding that we solve problems.
Speaking about the incident, Hillary Clinton said: "It is
tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident
— to believe that in today's America, bigotry is largely
behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists. But
despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's
long struggle with race is far from finished."
Some of the Republican candidates for president are tak-
ing heat because they have not come out so boldly and clear-
ly as Clinton regarding the racial dimension of this crime.
Here's the problem. No one, particularly with all the
information we now have about the deranged young man
who admitted to committing this crime, can question his
racial motivations. He was a sick, pathological racist.
But Clinton, in her zeal to make political capital from this
tragedy, conflated and confused very different things —
racial bigotry and institutionalized racism - and as result, at
a difficult and sensitive moment, threw out heat when we
needed light.
wage jobs created by fracking. The
industry pays all assortment of young
people, including school dropouts,
upwards of six figures to work on
drilling rigs.
World poverty, as a percentage of
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances.”
— U.S. Constitution, Amendment I.
In 1948, Communist forces cut off
all land and water routes between West
Germany and West Berlin, prompting
the western allies to organize the Berlin
Airlift.
In 1964, AT&T inaugurated com-
crashed while attempting to land during
a thunderstorm at New York's John F.
Kennedy International Airport.
On this date:
In 1509, Henry VIII was crowned
Today is Wednesday, June 24, the
175th day of 2015. There are 190 days
left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 24, 1975, 113 people were
rary standards.
The church founded and funds hos-
pitals, universities and research insti-
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In 1939, the Southeast Asian country
Siam changed its name to Thailand. (It
went back to being Siam in 1945, then
became Thailand once again in 1949.)
In 1940, France signed an armistice
argues: "
indicate that the major part of global
Winchell died in Los Angeles at age 82.
Five years ago: President Barack
Obama declared that he and visiting
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
had "succeeded in resetting" the rela-
tionship between the former Cold War
adversaries. Julia Gillard was sworn in
as Australia's first woman prime minis-
ter. Apple's iPhone 4 was released in
five countries, selling a record 1.7 mil-
lion units in three days despite criticism
of its new antenna design. U.S. tennis
player John Isner defeated Nicolas
Mahut of France 70-68 at Wimbledon
in the longest-ever professional match:
11 hours, 5 minutes over three days.
One year ago: Mississippi
Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, a main-
stream conservative with more than 40
years' congressional experience, nar-
rowly turned back a primary challenge
from state Sen. Chris McDaniel, a tea
party favorite. Pittsburgh Penguins cap-
tain Sidney Crosby won his second
Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valu-
able player at the league's postseason
awards ceremony. Character actor Eli
Wallach, 98, died in New York.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Al
Molinaro is 96. Comedian Jack Carter
is 93. Rock singer Arthur Brown is 73.
Actress Michele Lee is 73.
In 1793, the first republican consti-
tution in France was adopted.
In 1880, "O Canada," the future
Canadian national anthem, was first
performed in Quebec City.
In 1908, Grover Cleveland, the 22nd
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that individuals are judged by the color of their skin rather
than the content of their character?
A good deal of this is driven by the refusal of so many —
mostly liberals such as Clinton — to accept King's simple
MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF AMERICANS ARE EITHER OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE
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mercial "Picturephone" service
between New York, Chicago and
Washington, D.C. (the service, howev-
er, never caught on).
In 1968, "Resurrection City," a shan-
tytown constructed as part of the Poor
People's March on Washington D.C.,
was closed down by authorities.
In 1983, the space shuttle
Challenger — carrying America's first
woman in space, Sally K. Ride —
coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air
Force Base in California.
In 1985, a federal judge in New York
found former Wall Street Journal
reporter R. Foster Winans guilty of ille-
gally using his position at the paper in a
get-rich-quick insider-trading scheme.
(Winans served eight months in federal
prison.)
In 1990, Health and Human
Services Secretary Louis Sullivan was
virtually drowned out by jeering
demonstrators as he addressed the Sixth
International AIDS conference in San
Francisco.
Ten years ago: Despite growing anx-
iety about the war in Iraq, President
George W. Bush refused to set a
timetable for bringing home U.S. troops
and declared, "I'm not giving up on the
mission. We're doing the right thing."
Officials said tests confirmed the sec-
ond case of mad cow disease in the
United States. Ventriloquist Paul
Respect Pope Francis and his It stands to reason this comes in a con- regulate up the cost of fossil fuels, new
church, but take caution with his new text of scientific hypothesis. Backed by energy advancement will slow in rela-
encyclical. Global warming could hurt his Pontifical Academy of Sciences - an tjon
the poor with hurricanes, tainted wet- elite group of scientists, including more
lands and depleted forests. That's a the- than 70 Nobel laureates since the early
ory. This is fact: Energy shortages and 20th century - the pope's encyclical
Institutionalized racism is racism that a society officially sluggish economies — the costs of tilt- argues: "Numerous scientific studies
endorses. It is present when there is a legal framework that *n8 at t^ie climate change windmill
supports it.
Institutionalized racism existed in the United States prior
to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting
Rights Act of 1965. Social realities and laws that permitted arable Without 'the church science
racial discrimination of various kinds were made illegal by might be centuries behind contempo-
those acts.
So Clinton misrepresents reality to suggest that "institu-
tionalized racism" exists today in America. It does not.
Racial bigotry, on the other hand, is personal behavior.
Does it exist? It certainly does. But personal affairs of the
heart and affairs of state are different issues.
As Martin Luther King Jr. observed, "morality cannot be
legislated, but behavior can be regulated.
Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can
restrain the heartless."
The civil rights-era laws purged America of legal, insti-
tutionalized racism in the spirit of Dr. King, restraining "the
heartless."
But why, a half-century later, does so much sick person-
al racial bigotry remain? Why does there remain such a
sharp racial consciousness? Why does it remain so prevalent justice. Popes tell the wealthy to live
Jesus and help the poor. Catholic organ- restrictions on production of fossil
izations comprise the largest social fuels. Without abundant and affordable
services network in the world. concrete, steel, advanced plastics, cop-
So it is no surprise the encyclical per, cast iron and other conventional
(leaked by an Italian magazine resources, one cannot produce a wind-
but profound point that racial bigotry is a moral problem and Monday) professes to defend the poor, mill farm or solar array. If governments Springs Gazette
that "morality cannot be legislated."
The plethora of government programs driven by the pre-
tense that government can go beyond just protecting citizens
to become an active tool for creating a more just society
have worsened the very problem they pretend to address.
Making segregation illegal — making discrimination illegal
— is far different from forced integration and mandated
quotas.
Liberal policies have forced ongoing and increased racial killed when Eastern Airlines Flight 66,
consciousness and division in the country. In doing so, by a Boeing 727 carrying 124 people,
taking government where it does not belong, trying to solve
a moral problem it cannot solve, they have made the prob-
lem worse and sharpened, rather than eased, racial tensions.
Worse, taking government where it does not belong has
diminished the most important factor needed to solve this king of England; his wife, Catherine of
problem, which is more, not less, personal moral responsi- Aragon, was crowned queen consort,
bility by both the victims and the victimizers.
Appreciation for the awesome humility, forgiveness and
love demonstrated by the families of the victims of this hor-
rible crime and the other members of this church is the great-
est homage we can pay to those who were murdered.
As a nation, we should be turning to the God to whom and 24th president of the United States,
they were praying, whose teachings they were studying died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age
when they were murdered. The answers are there. Not in
politics and not in Washington.
Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, the
Center for Urban Rene wal and Education. Contact her at
www. urbancure. org. To find out more about Star Parker and
read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and car- with Italy during World War II.
toonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
Furthermore, it is hard to conjure
anything taking a higher and faster toll
on the poor than more regulations that
raise the cost of transportation and
would devastate the poor more quickly warming in recent decades is due to the household energy. Anyone who wants
high concentration of greenhouse gas... to help the poor had best oppose regu-
The Catholic church views science emitted above all because of human lations that would eliminate the high-
and faith as complementary and insep- activity."
Critical word: "indicate." If this was
settled science (such as the cause of
pregnancy), the word would be "con-
clude."
With more than 1.2 billion Catholics
tutes. Catholic clerics Roger Bacon, in the world, papal encyclicals alter
Nicole Oresme, John Buridan and St. social and political landscapes. The the population, has declined at a record
Thomas Aquinas established the mod- Catholic church does not consider them pace for the past three decades. That is
em scientific method. Friar Gregor infallible and they do not establish doc- because wealthy nations continue
Johann Mendel discovered genetics, trine.
Father Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Free markets around the globe are
Lemaitre developed the Big Bang theo- racing to develop new and sustainable
ry while teaching physics at Catholic forms of energy each day, because mar-
University of Leuven. An exhaustive kets reward those who discover effi-
list of Catholic inspired and/or funded ciencies. If the pope is right about glob- poverty. Without them, charity and
scientific advancement would be long al warming, these for-profit ventures mandatory redistribution programs
and distinguished. are the best long-term hope for poor have little to work with.
With no less enthusiasm than it has nations. By all means, listen to the pope and
for science, the church advances social A tragic result of the new Francis ^e|p t^e p00r p0 not frarm them by
as encyclical would be more government impedlng economles
energy pro-
duction with haphazard solutions to the
human-caused global-warming hypoth-
esis.
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