More and more, African-Americans are responding to the fact that there are too many Mark Fuhrmans on too many American police forces and that the American justice system sees the color of crime as black only. African-Americans are so fed up with America's whites that they're saying forget about integration. More and more, they're ready to dump what Martin Luther King marched for to seek their own seg regation. In other words, their own form of tribalism. Tribalism is not only black in this country.
Tribalism takes on all kinds of shapes, colors, sizes and disguises.
Look how violent the anti-abortionists have become, killing doctors, burning clinics, all under the pretext of religious piousness. All these different tribes, usually coalescing around the espousal of single issues, often can't help stepping on one another's toes. Every group wants to impose its beliefs on every other group and, like the anti-abortionists, they all have the capacity of getting violent about it. We've already had one Civil War. Today, there's big profit in preaching divisiveness, and so the hate-mongers in our own country have turned divisiveness into an industry that's manufacturing Oklahoma City bombings and maybe Arizona train wrecks.