The parental instinct and the curfew are designed to protect children and young adults from things that can happen anytime of the day but to which kids and teens are particularly vulnerable under the cover of dark. Unfortunately, in some parts of the world ‘colored’ parents see fit to instruct their children especially their female children to come in or to stay in the house during the day light hours. They do so because they are trying to protect their children from the dangers they associate with a different type of darkness.
Colorblind People and the Ku Klux Klan
The discourse of difference and conflicts of difference is so impoverished that it makes a colored person looking at a picture of the Ku Klux Klan find something in it that he or she can appreciate. The Ku Klux Klan bothers to cut holes in their sheets to see what colorblind people claim does not and should not matter when it comes to the social relations of power viz., to subordination and domination in society, politics and economy.
Boy Scouts of America!
By lifting the ban on gay members the Boy Scouts of America have made a move in the right direction. Their continued ban on gay Scout leaders,however, encourages the stigma that gay adults are pedophiles. Nevertheless, members of the gay community should support the Scouts and give the organization at least half the time it takes some gays to acknowledge and accept themselves. Support for the BSA is not a simple matter of advocating ‘gay rights’ or being on the right side of an issue and history. Support for the BSA is a calling that should annunciate the type of leadership the organization professes. This example and leadership is desperately needed to absorb the impact that enclaves of intolerance have on our social welfare and quality of life.