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Most of this thread appears to try to do something that is not possible to do in the United States.
Racism and White Supremacy has no eternal political party. Indeed there are no such thing as eternal political parties in America and no reason to believe there should be or would be. Hence as to the specific topic of the thread there is only:
- Resisting Racism and White Supremacy
- supporting Racism and White Supremacy
- being non-committal which is simply a somewhat passive form of supporting Racism and White Supremacy
Racism and White Supremacy exist, become institutionalized and thus systemic. This is as it was and as it is today in America. Presenting anecdotal anomalies in an effort to deny this is in a word quant, decidedly American and irrelevant. I wish these anecdotal anomalies were relevant. They are closer to incidental than they are to relevant. This includes the election of a non-white President. Heck that there are black CEO's is more significant than having elected a non-white President. This is not to say that Racism and White Supremacy are wholly American characteristics. They are however predominantly WASP characteristics elevated to science and systemized by American WASPs to such an extent that the German Nazis learned their Race Science from ........AMERICANS.
The plain truth of it is that Europe (the ancestral home of the WASP) was always resource poor. Hence they determined that they needed to colonize.....to conquer as a means to to survival. While there were other ways and are other means to survive, why settle for being one of many when you could convince yourself that you deserved the spot at the top of a totem.
The problem we have in the United States is that science caught up to our founding documents written by Racist White Men and at least ambiguous if not downright even handed in their treatment of race as seen through the prism of "the Equality of Man". I surmise that the Founders did not believe Racism and White Supremacy and Suffrage as seen through the eyes of their era would last indefinitely in this country. However they began another somewhat quant American practice of government kicking the can down the road. They kicked it down the road to Lincoln who tried to address it in his time not because he held heartfelt concerns about racial equality but because he knew the country had to move away from chattel slavery. It was then kicked down the road until Black Americans could no longer deny their suppression as Citizens and forced White Americans who still had most of the power to recognize the circumstance as untenable. The Arc of Justice is not an arc at all. It is more a line with defined kinks such as Lincoln and the Civil War, Civil Rights Legislation and SC decisions of the 1950's and 60's and the Great Society. Reparations of a sort to Native Americans are another example.
So yes, we still have Systemic Racism today. I am old enough to realize that it will still be with us as a country when they finally put me in the ground. These days I satisfy myself searching for and anticipating the next kink in the Line of Justice.
Racism and White Supremacy has no eternal political party. Indeed there are no such thing as eternal political parties in America and no reason to believe there should be or would be. Hence as to the specific topic of the thread there is only:
- Resisting Racism and White Supremacy
- supporting Racism and White Supremacy
- being non-committal which is simply a somewhat passive form of supporting Racism and White Supremacy
Racism and White Supremacy exist, become institutionalized and thus systemic. This is as it was and as it is today in America. Presenting anecdotal anomalies in an effort to deny this is in a word quant, decidedly American and irrelevant. I wish these anecdotal anomalies were relevant. They are closer to incidental than they are to relevant. This includes the election of a non-white President. Heck that there are black CEO's is more significant than having elected a non-white President. This is not to say that Racism and White Supremacy are wholly American characteristics. They are however predominantly WASP characteristics elevated to science and systemized by American WASPs to such an extent that the German Nazis learned their Race Science from ........AMERICANS.
The plain truth of it is that Europe (the ancestral home of the WASP) was always resource poor. Hence they determined that they needed to colonize.....to conquer as a means to to survival. While there were other ways and are other means to survive, why settle for being one of many when you could convince yourself that you deserved the spot at the top of a totem.
The problem we have in the United States is that science caught up to our founding documents written by Racist White Men and at least ambiguous if not downright even handed in their treatment of race as seen through the prism of "the Equality of Man". I surmise that the Founders did not believe Racism and White Supremacy and Suffrage as seen through the eyes of their era would last indefinitely in this country. However they began another somewhat quant American practice of government kicking the can down the road. They kicked it down the road to Lincoln who tried to address it in his time not because he held heartfelt concerns about racial equality but because he knew the country had to move away from chattel slavery. It was then kicked down the road until Black Americans could no longer deny their suppression as Citizens and forced White Americans who still had most of the power to recognize the circumstance as untenable. The Arc of Justice is not an arc at all. It is more a line with defined kinks such as Lincoln and the Civil War, Civil Rights Legislation and SC decisions of the 1950's and 60's and the Great Society. Reparations of a sort to Native Americans are another example.
So yes, we still have Systemic Racism today. I am old enough to realize that it will still be with us as a country when they finally put me in the ground. These days I satisfy myself searching for and anticipating the next kink in the Line of Justice.
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