Social niceties and good manners have reached their limit in smoothing over race and class differences

We hear the charge of “racism” now more than in the 1960s civil rights movement, and the trite saying that we have a class problem not a race problem isn't helping matters. Why?

Social niceties and good manners grow in importance the more diverse people are living in the same space, just as exaggerated social manners happen among international diplomats dealing with big differences between distinctly different nations, races, and classes.

By the 1960's social niceties and good manners reached their limit in smoothing over race and class differences in the South, which always prided themselves on the social niceties and good manners that developed mainly to smooth over racial and class differences. Some of this polite behavior also derived from the culture of England which had very big differences between classes.

In rural parts of country, such as the Midwest, exaggerated social manners seem not as necessary because there are fewer differences between races and classes. These are the people that Hillary Clinton called a basket of deplorables, which she characterized as being “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic.” The basket of deplorables had no need for the exaggerated social manners of international diplomats which look phony to them because it is necessarily phony behavior.

The big secret blocked by the phony political correctness of people like Hillary Clinton is that the charge of “racism” being heard now more than in the 1960s has as much to do with the racism of blacks and people of color as it does with white racism---the charge of racism is now even hurled daily, hourly, against our President.

The honest way out of this mess of no-longer-working social niceties and the increasing charges of racism is to finally admit that human nature is genetically kin and ethnic or racial centered and has been since humans became human. Then we can begin to find long-term ways to solve our racial and class differences: such as forming an ethnopluralism of ethnostates or regions in the United States from out of our constitutional separation of powers and states, protected from marauding imperialists and supremacists by federalism. 

That won't be easy but it's better than suicidal civil war.