All Roads Lead to Cornithaca

There’s No Such Thing

You can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps; but today’s policy makers pretend that you can selectively repress and oppress on the basis of race and gender without doing harm. • Like a parent who argues that they only abuse their child rarely; so they should be judged on the majority of days: Their irrational rationalizing declares that you can isolate the cause from the effect; just by saying it is so. And that you can defend any evil action by minimizing the victim, and stressing the self-righteousness of your excuse. • Nothing so undercuts their paper-thin pretensions of a greater good, than a comparison with those that have fought in the cause of human worth. • It’s not surprising that today’s policies, so at odds with ethical behavior; are also at odds with the lives and beliefs of every respected figure of human dignity and equality we hold as examples: From Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King, Jr.; and from Mother Teresa to Malcolm X: their belief was that equality was unconditional — for everyone, everywhere, and always. • You can’t follow someone in the opposite direction. • Today’s policy makers are not the inheritors that cause – they are its betrayers.