You Ever Skipped A Rock & Hit A Flying Bird? Oh Man, There's Ripples Everywhere - And You're Eating Tonight!

Right Wing News' John Hawkins posts a lot of good, thought-provoking stuff, and he's got another one ready for us today:

  "If Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and let’s face it, pretty much everyone on MSNBC weren’t around, would Lakim Faust have been murdering white people? Maybe it’s time to start asking that question."

Maybe it is - there's a lot of Americans dying but, in my experience, that didn't seem to be *too much* of a problem until whites were targets of blacks. So, the first question most blacks would think "it’s time to start asking" wouldn't be on coverage of the issue, finally, but why hasn't more of it been everywhere? 

I'd bet you that one, long-enduring fact of American life, is enough to enrage a whole lot of Americans and - except when exploited as a ploy to "tweak" the Left -  even Right Wing News, sad to say, may be partially responsible for that. 

But honestly, between post-racial Republicans, our questions don't always have to be confrontations about race, do they? How about some answers? 

Like, speaking of our buddies at MSNBC, when they're asked a question like ""Is there science to back up the effectiveness of alternative treatments?" do you think the following is the proper answer?

"If you’re looking for the same kind of rigorous, double-blinded, placebo-controlled studies that set the gold standard in Western medicine, they might be harder to find when it comes to alternative treatments. 

"Many of these modalities are more personalized, less standardized, and so are harder to study in that way," she says. In spite of these differences, in recent years an increasing number of studies has provided verification of the effectiveness of alternative therapies — most notably, meditation, acupuncture and herbal remedies."

That probably IS the answer if you're a listener to the homeopath, Michael Savage, or the advocate, Rush Limbaugh, but what does the most knowledgable scientist in alternative medicine say? Along with "much of alternative medicine resembles a cult," Prof. Edzard Ernst finds science "might be harder to find" as well, but he's a little bit more conclusive:

"I have seen far too many of those bogus studies to have much patience left. They do not represent an honest test of anything, simply because we know their result even before the trial has started. They are not science but thinly disguised promotion. They are not just a waste of money, they are dangerous – because they produce misleading results – and they are thus also unethical."

If this is the truth, and you, John Hawkins, have a sincere interest in fixing the woes of this nation beyond pointing out what horrible people some blacks are - and I, just as sincerely, think you do - then I challenge you to become EVEN MORE INTERESTED in eliminating the cult-like influence of this equally "dangerous" and "unethical" scourge from the face of our nation. 

Why? Because, just like the equally superficial concept of race, the quackery inherent in "alternative" medicine has been the motivation and instigation for murder and countless other crimes world-wide - most notably fraud - while being promoted by Left and Right Wing thought leaders alike. And, strategically speaking, since the vast majority of political promoters are on the Left, we'd be undermining a major source of strength to the Democrats - both financially and "spiritually" - while dispelling myths that have wedded American society to Europe's Dark Ages for centuries. 

And that brings me back to America's racial problems:

Confirming certainties dispels uncertainties.

Like whether A) as Rudy Giuliani's "Broken windows theory" suggested, the low-hanging fruit of science and politics have larger implications culturally, and B) there's a possibility the American Right Wing will ever join the 21st Century:

Within the 21st Century, that is,...