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Two Americas 
    
   Friday, we wrote a little about Nikki Haley's rise from humble beginnings to governor and then ambassador to the United Nations. Her exposure to the world put things in perspective, as she tells in her book, With All Due Respect.   

   This plus our daily notice of people tearing down statues, burning and looting businesses, even targeting federal buildings ... stray bullets find children. City and state politicians stand by. It stirs us to express our own perspective.

   Our View:  

   In the beginning, we were two Americas. The only political path to forming a Union free of British colonialism was to allow Southern states to continue slavery. (What if they had left the South under British rule? Redcoats on the Mason-Dixon line?)

   After an inevitable war that claimed at least 600,000 lives and decimated the South, government-sanctioned slavery was outlawed. Done! History! 

   Stop blaming today's USA for something some of our states did, long ago. Granted, it's complicated when the man, later president, who wrote "all men are created equal," he himself owned slaves. 

   Racism that followed the war, and continues in some hearts, is a human problem, not the "government of the people," even though some of the humans are in government. 

   Anarchist/terrorists have infiltrated Black Lives Matter and seek to destroy as much as compromised city governments permit. Hard to fathom. 

   But it works for politicians hoping to replace the president. Power! Wealth!
Interesting - protesters booing mayors who coddle them. 

   The Bible says, one day men will call good evil, and evil good. Some are calling our protectors - police - evil, and rioters - good. 

   And it works for dictatorships which expect to gain by our loss. You know who they are, just not all the ways they may be instigating. 

   Three cheers for Nikki Haley and anyone else who believes we must be strong and free for ourselves and to prevent this world from becoming even darker.

      Jimmy