You don't get to make up what racism is. What I said was true, you whites here are making excuses for yourselves going back 500 years. You are the one making racist statement because you are making you comments based on false hoods. top of t hat you are referring to all blacks, I was referring to whites posting here. So you don't get to makeup what racism is because that is just exactly what you did. .I've run businesses. So here is your challenge:
Prove when racism ended and its effects were allayed. Show, with data and peer-reviewed studies supporting your argument, when the effects of the hundreds of years of anti-Black racism from chattel slavery through Old Jim Crow leveled off. Show when the wealth expropriated during that oppression was repaid to those it was expropriated from and through. And remember, after you’ve addressed the end of anti-Black racism you’ll still have to explain when anti-Latinx, anti-Asian, anti-Arab, and anti-Native racism came to an end as well.
Same goes for anti-Polish, anti-Italian, anti-Hillbilly, anti-Jewish, anti-German, and anti-French prejudices in the U.S
No, because we are talking about racism, not prejudice and all these people are white.
What's so different about one who thinks of Poles as dumb, Italians as mafia, or Germans as Nazis, as opposed to one who views Blacks as such?
Yeah, there's a major difference.
Anti-White prejudices is more tolerated in this society, it's more rampant in the media, and there's no sensitivity training to combat it.
I see the difference as this - the things you mentioned are negative generalizations of a group of people that may be held by certain individuals within a society. But not only have powerful people in America held certain views of Black folks - they have written into their law that they are less than human and spent years oppressing them, discriminating against them, and criminalizing their very existence. I heard a klansman say on TV, "They were never intended to be our equal." Although, as has been mentioned on this thread, they hypocritically wrote on paper that ALL men were created equal.
The KKK also had anti-Catholic views in the early 20th century, due to millions of White Catholics immigrating to the U.S from Italy, Ireland, and Poland etc.
Furthermore there were government prejudiced comments regarding some Whites in the U.S, in the early 20th century.
History of the Poles in the United States - Wikipedia
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United States Congress Joint Immigration Commission study prepared on Polish Americans cited similar studies and said Poles were undesirable immigrants because of their "inherently unstable personalities".
[100] In a historical text examining Poland, Nevin Winter described in 1913 that "an extremeness in
temperament is a characteristic of the Slav" and asserting this view as an
inborn and unchangeable personality trait in Poles as well as Russians.
[101][
discuss] Future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson called Poles, Hungarians, and Italians, in his 1902
History of the American People, "men of the meaner sort" who possessed "neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intelligence." He later called these groups less preferable than the Chinese immigrants.
[102] Wilson later apologized, and met publicly with Polish-American leaders.
[103] The 1916 book
The Passing of the Great Race similarly drew on intelligence studies of immigrants such as the Poles to argue that American civilization was in decline and society as a whole would suffer from a steady increase in inferior intelligence.
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