单选题
Racial Prejudice
In some countries where racial prejucide is acute, violence has been taken for granted as a means of solving differences; and this is not even questioned. There are countries
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the white man imposes his rude by brute (粗暴) force; there are countries where the black man protests by
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fire to cities and by looting and pillaging (抢夺). Important people on both sides, who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in
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of violence as if it were a legitimate (合法的) solution,
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any other. What is really frightening, what really
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you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch (关键时刻), we have made no actual
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at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instincts remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded
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of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that
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never solves a problem but makes it more acute. The sheer horror, the bloodshed and the suffering
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nothing. No solution ever comes to
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the morning after when we dismally (阴郁地) contemplate the smoking ruins and wonder what hit us.
The truly reasonable men who
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where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted
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their own kind because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as low enforcement. If half the energy that goes into
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acts were put to good use, if our efforts were directed at
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up the slums and ghettos (贫民窟), at improving living-standards and providing education and employment for all, we would not have gone a long way to
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at a solution.