No, I do not. My beliefs are my own. You are just deflecting as usual. I don't give a shit about either party.
Racist...Racist...Racist
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You don't know me nor do you know what I believe. Here, I'll help you. I am a Libertarian from a state whose motto is, :Live free or die."
The truest post in this entire thread!!! Unfortunately you'll never get those who refused to acknowledge or lack the empathy required to realized the impact of slavery on this nation and it's current state. They'd rather we all (black and white), forget it ever existed and "MOVE ON", not realizing it's THAT mentality that keeps this country from moving on.
Yeah, I gotta be honest. The best way for me to move on is to honor the people that sacrificed their lives for me. That is how I am moving on. I am never going to forget they existed. I am not going to forget they were used to build America the greatest country on the planet. It is the greatest country because of them and yet it is still a racist country. They would not want that and I am not going to act like that is okay. It's like you said. It's the mentality of people who simply are not able to have empathy that don't allow things to improve. While everyone else does all the work to progress. People of all color that understand and have empathy. We are 400 years behind as african americans in education, generational wealth, and not to mention mental health. So, it is easy for someone who is not behind to tell an african american to forget it. It didn't affect them at all.
Let’s dig into that CD. How exactly was our country built on the “institution of slavery”? I am willing to listen to your response.
Last Sunday, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina added himself to the long list of Republicans who have denied the existence of systemic racism in this country. Graham said on Fox News this past Sunday that "our systems are not racist. America is not a racist country."
Graham argued that the country cannot be racist because both Barack Obama and Kamala Harris had been elected and somehow, their overcoming racial hurdles proves the absence of racial hurdles. His views seems to be that the exceptions negated the rule.
In the rebuttal to President Biden's address to a joint session of Congress, the other Senator from South Carolina, Tim Scott, the only Black republican in the Senate, parroted Graham and became an apologist for these denials of racism, saying too that the country isnt racist. He argued that "people are making money and gaining power by pretending we havent made any progress at all, by doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal."
Scott's argument seems to leave open the possibility that America may have been a racist country but it has matured out of it, that it has graduated to egalitarianism.
I dont make much of Scott's ability to reason,. This is the same man who said in March that "Woke Supremacy", whatever that is, "is as bad as White supremacy." There is no world in which recent efforts at enlightenment can be equated to enslavement, lynching and mass incarceration. None.
It seems to me that the disingenuousness on the question of racism is largely a question of language. The question turns on another question: what to you is America? Is America the people who now inhabit the land, divorced from its systems and its history? Or, is the meaning of America inclusive of those systems and history?
When people say that America is a racist country, they dont necessarily mean that all or most Americans are consciously racist. However it is important to remember that nearly half of the country just voted for a full on racist in DJT, and they did so by either by denying his racism, become apologists for it or applauding it. What then do you call this country?
Historically, however, there is no question the country was founded by racists and white supremacists, and that much of the early wealth of this country was built on the back of enslaved Africans, and much of the early expansion came at the expense of the massacre of the land's indigenous people and treaties were broken also.
8 of the 1st 10 presidents personally enslaved Africans. In 1856, the chief justice of the United States wrote in the infamous ruling of the Dred Scott case that Black people "for more than a century before being regarded as beings of an inferior order, and unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
America is not the same country it once was, but neither is it the country it purports to be.
Racism in America has evolved and become less blunt, but it hasnt become less effective. The knives have simply been sharpened. Now systems do the work that once required the action of the masses of individual racists.
The fact is plain and simple. Detention centers were packed to the gills and no forms of protection given to these people at the initial phases of the pandemic. Those ICE agents and CBP personnel were place in risky situations.; the danger being the health risks that could be spread to their families. All detention centers were contracted out to defense contractors and owners of privatized prisons, who gave contributions to #45s run for the presidency. How about those that were mistakenly apprehended and deported? There no statistics on how many were wrongfully treated. So yes, some Mexican immigrants, who had citizenship became pawns to make it look like #45s plan was working.
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