The REAL "Survival" Issue ??
Chakrabarti's new book, A Country of Cities, covers a topic that our Media shuns, but should be on the tip of the tongue for all of us! We all need to "survive", and we need two things to do that: water, and energy. We all live on a planet where the population has grown from 1.6B in 1900, to a projected 7.0B in this century! Regardless of our skin color, or birth circumstances, we all need clean water to survive! Next, comes energy, if we continue to base our global economy on our ability to "plug in" to power. These tribal wars that are springing up around the planet are wrong-headed, and stupidly focused.
In 1965, while I was still stationed at Fort Meade, my brother, an Army Officer, asked me to find a place for him and his family in the Washington, D.C. area. He was returning from his 2nd tour in Vietnam, and needed a place to live while he attended graduate school at George Washington University. The District was almost completely segregated, then, and under the strict control of Southern Rednecks (jobs on the D.C. police force were "patronage" handed out to their fellow rednecks). There was no place to rent or buy in the District if you were not white.
In less than five years, the District was "flipped" from white to black! It remained under the control of a mostly Redneck Congress; it was called "The Plantation" by my black friends there. The whites fled the city for residences in the all-white suburbs. They kept their city jobs, however; commuting back into the city daily, putting heavy financial burdens on the District government; for which they paid little or nothing.
Fast forward to 2013. We have massive crime and gun-violence in all of our major cities; they also have almost solidly black inner-cores. From gun deaths to school-to-prison factories, the "dysfunction" of our cities has been socially engineered by white citizens, and their racial beliefs.
Yet, another "flippin' may be in our near future. Energy costs and the availability of clean water are emerging as prime concerns for the survival of our "way(s) of life". But whites don't live where they can't be "safe"; so, I guess, the blacks will be moving again?
Stay Vigilant! Think about the real issues??
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