It's now time to look at the cold, hard, graphic reality of what racism by whites has entailed. The information used in this thread will come from the book, "White Rage," by Dr. Carol Anderson.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
From the end of the Civil War to our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate, relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans.
White Rage — Carol Anderson
Starting with my next post, you will be shown in graphic detail the steps whites took to deprive blacks of equal rights and freedom after slavery ended up until our lifetimes. The root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism. That's a fact and it's time people faced that fact.
Racism exists across the racial spectrum. If you go to Japan, China, or some other Southeast Asian nations, you will find Asian racists who don't like blacks...and guess what, they also don't like whites, or any other races for that matter. There are North African Arabs that consider blacks as inferior and kill them. In the United States, there are white racists, Hispanic racists and Asian racists that don't like blacks and racist blacks that don't like any race that isn't black. Why? I don't have all the answers. Some of it may be a base subconscious tribal, "not of our tribe," mentality and as such, consider someone of significant differing appearance to be competition. There may always be racism throughout the globe, as there is now, all we can do is treat the person you meet with kindness and see how they treat you in return. If they don't treat you as an equal, they're not worth your time and energy.
Prejudice is different from racism. And this everybody is a racist argument doesn't seem capable of recognizing how whites have used the courts in America and how white nations use the military in order to oppress non white nations. I am talking about how racism has impacted the black community in America. There are no cases in America where a non white group has enacted and enforced laws and policies on another non white group in order to deny them equal opportunity. Prejudice is wrong, but it is not racism.
Where in my post have I said that "everybody" is racist? I'm only stating that racism spans the racial spectrum and denying rights to minorities doesn't end at our border. The slavery in the US ended with the Emancipation Proclamation and everyone involved is long dead. The Dixiecrat Democrats wanted slavery and they also fostered segregation and the Jim Crow laws. However, segregation is gone, as are the Jim Crow laws.
Blacks aren't victims and aren't oppressed. The last "glass-ceiling" has been completely broken when Barack Obama was elected as our 44th president. There are black Senators, Congressmen, local city and county administrators, heads of business, doctors, nurses, lawyers, mayors, district attorneys, and governors. You can be anything, those in the categories I cited, were focused and driven to achieve their goals.
Margaret Sanger, an avowed racist, created Planned Parenthood, with the intention of getting rid of blacks by installing Planned Parenthood into the inner-city areas and using abortions to do it. Push Planned Parenthood out and get men to stay with the family, rather than impregnating women and running off. Get Democrats out of city politics and demand better schools. That's what's holding the youths today.
As for that victimhood mentality, if you have a job, can read and write, have a roof over your head, furniture, transportation, a refrigerator, stove, food in that refrigerator and cupboards, some money in a bank, heat in the winter, television, a music source, a cellphone and can freely come and go where you want when you're not working.....you are no victim. Your living better than many places in the world.
