One day at a time

It's interesting to see how it only took one death to wipe Covid, which has taken 100,000 and counting, out of the headlines. It's almost as if some really smart and perceptive people at World News HQ said to themselves, "well, this virus thing has run its course... it's becoming a liability. What else we got?"

America will always have one trusty standby in the closet. RACISM!

And for a million good reasons, George Floyd being only the most recent.

But most of the time our media ignore it. Sensing that the public has lost interest in the Covid narrative, which is every day looking more like a serious but not unprecedented flu season, they've gone all in for championing African Americans.

Ya, racism! That's the ticket!

I find it interesting that in all the talk about racism this and racism that, there's virtually zero interest in exploring some of the structural causes of systemic racism. We've got an economy that is predicated on dog-eat-dog, winner take all competition. We are essentially divided not into white and non-white, but into fat-cats and mice.

There are different shades of mice, but they're all mice. There are different shades of fat-cats too, but they all appreciate the fact they've more in common with their fellow fat-cats than with the mice.

The mice, on the other hand, are conditioned to rip each other to shreds. After all, some of those mice seem to have an advantage over others.

The mice would do well to take a lesson from the fat-cats. They have way more in common with the other mice than they do with their overlords.

Acting accordingly would go a long way to solving racism.