Amerikaaners

The United States can't honestly be seen as becoming more and more like South Africa under apartheid. Just because poor people and people of color are being disenfranchised from voting (let's hear it for Scott Walker!), just because right-wingers are moving to restrict abortion and sex education, just because so many blacks live in squalid, dysfunctional towns and cities and are trapped in menial jobs, just because there's an ongoing attack on homosexuals, just because a few justices of the peace are refusing to marry interracial couples, just because the Republican party is laying the groundwork to be in control of the federal government for decades once they win back the Presidency and the Senate, just because there will be few if any social services in this country in the near future, just because other countries will divest from American interests if the debt ceiling isn't raised in time, just because white people will someday be outnumbered by everyone else but will still control everything, that doesn't mean we're headed to a period of a legally sanctioned social arrangement in which we're separate but . . . unequal.