Ahmaud Arbery and the Root Cause of Racism

The savage murder of Ahmaud Arbery has rightly shocked America.  I just saw the video yesterday and found it very hard to watch.  And how many other racially-motivated acts of violence are committed that never stir the conscience of the public precisely because there is no video to record what happened?  

Ahmaud Arbery; Colin Kaepernick 

Despite all the calls for tolerance, for acceptance, despite the many anti-bullying and anti-racism classes in schools, the federal hate crime classification, and so much more, racism and race-based crime continues in America. 

The only, only thing that can end it is the understanding of where it begins, in the self, which Aesthetic Realism for the first time provides. That is what the following important article is about.
  
Read "It Is in Contempt that the Root of Racism Lies" by late maritime captain, photographer, and Aesthetic Realism Associate Allan Michael.  

Captain Allan Michael

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Victory in Europe Day, 75 years on

VE Day being today, I am glad to say how proud I am of the many members of my family who fought for Britain against Nazism, and who supported the war effort in many ways including as soldiers, seamen, airmen, drivers, mechanics, nurses, engineers, telephonists, and more. 

RAF Spitfire 

Their lives were permanently altered by a second world war that killed millions, and that started just twenty years after the official end of the first. How could the world let this happen? 
As a history teacher for many years I am sure that the explanation lies in the study that is outlined below. And to commemorate the meaning of VE Day, with the fervent hope that the definitive cause of war be known everywhere, here is a short quotation from some of the most important writing I've ever seen:

It was contempt which made for that awful mode of retaliation called Nazism... In the unconscious, dear unknown friends, it is the other person who will have accomplished contempt for you unless you have first contempt for him. 
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In this essay, "What Caused the Wars," Eli Siegel has explained the force in self that can have one cold, unseeing, cruel - and the real alternative. The study of contempt, and of the opposing force - the desire to have honest respect for the world -- which are both in every person all the time, is the needed education for today. 

Nazi Party Gathering

    2nd Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander Silvashko
(Red Army) after the meeting of the two armies at the Elbe River

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