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While it was white people who created the racist system, it was also mostly white people who changed that system into the least racist system in history, as it is today. While there are people who suffer the results of generational poverty rooted in historical racism, blaming long dead people for ones own circumstances will never serve to lift one out of said circumstances. It’s even less beneficial to blame innocent living people who are the same race as long dead offenders.
Do you blame young Germans for the Holocaust? If so, you’re upholding Hitler’s legacy.
While it was white people who created the racist system, it was also mostly white people who changed that system into the least racist system in history,
Hello A:
Well aren't we lucky?? White people CREATED the racist system, but TEMPERED it so it wouldn't be soo bad..
Well yeah, we are lucky. We live in the most prosperous time and place for the most people (regardless of race) in all history.
The system was created at a time when all peoples everywhere were very very racist. Then this system was one of the trailblazers for reduction of racism. Making it among the least racist places ever. And yeah, most of the people responsible for that reduction were white. That doesn’t mean you should thank white people, unless you know one of them responsible, then thank that one. But you probably don’t.
Sure. But today’s racism isn’t typically institutional, and when it is the issue is addressed relatively quickly, like at Harvard. Furthermore, racism is a shortcut for people who lack nuance in their thinking, which means it is not specific to one race over another. In other words, today’s racism can be found among people of any race. It is those individuals who should be held responsible for racism, regardless of their skin.
The worst racism today, is that which is perpetuated by academia and activists and acceptable in popular media. This is the racism premised on their new definition which claims people are either racist or not racist depending on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.
In 1866, General Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee as a “social club.” The name was supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. The Klan was not maintained by centralized national organization, but instead, operated as a network of local violent initiatives. The Klan referred to themselves as the “Invisible Empire of the South,” spearheading an underground movement against Radical Republicanism and Reconstruction in the hopes of maintaining white supremacy in the post-war South.
The Klan primarily performed heinous crimes against African Americans, especially those running for office in the South. In addition, many white Republicans and sympathizers were also targets of Klan violence. It is estimated that the KKK performed over 3500 racially-motivated lynchings in the South between 1865 and 1900. Furthermore, white Republicans who sympathized with African Americans, decried as “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags,” were frequently attacked.
White Democrats need to own up to what their history really is and that would be they are the racist and trying to rewrite history will not cover the Democrat history of racism.
White Democrats need to own up to what their history really is and that would be they are the racist and trying to rewrite history will not cover the Democrat history of racism.
Hello poochy boy:
You're the right winger who keeps calling Obama a nigger, aren't you???
Look.. You're a perfect example of what's going on.. The south hasn't changed its racist ways.. They just went from racist Democrats to racist Republicans..
Like I said, you're a good example.. You're right wing as hell, and racist as shit..
Look.. You're a perfect example of what's going on.. The south hasn't changed its racist ways.. They just went from racist Democrats to racist Republicans
The glaring elephant in the room of your argument is that it isn't Republicans demanding more people to pick their lettuce. That's you. Slave owners aren't defined by meaningless names and titles. They are defined by whether they want a brown person to clean their sheets and pick their corn.
The fact is, you don't think white people should have to do that kind of work. You think that's what Mexicans are for. You are the mecca of slave owner thinking. Sure, you like Tido in the way old slave owners liked their slaves. Slave owners love the help, but Tido better not jump Massa's fence. In your case, they'd better not vote or say things out of line. They pick the political fields to get you your massive socialism state. You like them only if they serve your extremely white self interests.
Thinking is not a good example of trying to describe Democrats. Democrats are the party of the KKK. History proves what you will not accept.
The Ku Klux Klan was controversial in the 1920s not only because of its intolerance and promotion of vigilante violence, but also because of its entry into American politics. During the first half of the 1920s, the Klan, which had previously been associated with the South, came to thoroughly dominate electoral politics in Indiana, supposedly helped elect eleven Governors (including Oregon’s Walter Pierce), and briefly controlled State Legislatures in the Western States of Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Oregon.
At the national level, the Klan is alleged to have elected dozens of Senators and Congressmen in the 1920s. Though at the local level Klan politicians were both Republicans and Democrats, nationally it was the Democratic Party that was most associated with the Klan because of intense infighting at its 1924 Presidential nominating convention.
Thinking is not a good example of trying to describe Democrats.
The irony of course is you are such a stupid partisan Conservative militant that you think education is a liberal conspiracy invented by Al Gore.
Democrats are the party of the KKK. History proves what you will not accept.
History proves that you are a morbidly pathological liar who enthusiastically mixes together past and present for the purpose of manufacturing a partisan political narrative. The Democrats used to be supported by the KKK a full century ago, before the KKK switched its allegiance to the Republicans. You cannot simply pretend those events didn't happen because they did. Outright ignoring any part of history which is inconvenient for your disturbed far right version of the world simply illustrates that you are a gigantic dickhead who is to be ignored wherever possible.
Thinking is not a good example of trying to describe Democrats.
The irony of course is you are such a stupid partisan Conservative militant that you think education is a liberal conspiracy invented by Al Gore.
You used to say Americans were all military flag worshippers including Democrats. You must have realized how stupid that was, seeing you're now defending the Democrats as though they are very liberal. Kudos to you for realizing your stupidity.
It's not to claim responsibility per say, but to own up to the fact that even in this time many white people are not anti-racist, more so just not racist. This allows for a certain section of white people to claim "not all white people" but yet never do anything to call out the white people that actually are racist.
I didn’t personally do anything racist, and I cannot accept responsibility for any racist things that anyone else has done, even if a racist would put me in the arbitrary racial category of people who were racist. Nor can I accept any praise for being in that same arbitrary racial category of people who did more to make this the least racist country in history.
The desire to place responsibility based on race is itself racist. Those who have sought to change the definition of racism are trying to hide from this fact.
Whilst it's arguable that whites in America may have been instrumental in creating a form of racism it is, and has been for a long time, the blacks who have prolonged this state.
The blacks have willfully protracted this national predicament as it provides a perpetual excuse for their laziness and inability to integrate with the rest of society just as Whites and Asians do.
Isn't this inherent racism and keeping it alive, by perpetuating the stereotype that black people are lazy and some of poor financial status all awhile ignoring the events of the past that have hindered black people from accumulating wealth. Example: Tulsa Race Riot.
I have no control over past events, all I can do is raise my children to be better than it by example. White people also fought to free slaves and while that doesn't excuse past atrocities, and pointing out that just about every culture and race has been a slave in the past doesn't make it any less egregious, I will not take responsibility for something I had no control over. Racism comes in all shapes and colors, it's not a "whites only" event so how about we stop pretending like white Americans are the only one's capable of acting racist and start putting responsibility on those (of any color) that do presently.
No because you couldn't tell me which ones are white, kinda white and not very white in the first place. Barack Obama is whiter than most people libs claim are white. Is he going to take responsibility, or pretend like he isn't half white?
Actually, Barack Obama is White. The race of a newborn in Hawaii at the time Barack was born is determined by the mother's race. Since the mom is always present at birth and the father isn't, the race of the kid follows the mom's. Sorry Black folks and liberals, he's one of us. ha ha ha!
If blacks ever accepted responsibility for owning slaves as well as capturing and selling the majority of them, then we MIGHT be able to have an honest debate on the subject