"There will always be some racism because it is part of the human condition. However, racism can (and is) being minimized."
What we see here at USMB is called the new racism.
Bullshit! Looks like you are deep into identity politics and giving people special treatment based on color for perpetuity.
Don't be white and lecture anyone about identity politics.
“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.”
There are all kinds of stories telling us how the so called founders struggled for several years to figure out how to figure out how much of a person blacks would count as human in order to be determined for representation in congress. After all blacks could not be as human as whites, no way! Starting in 1783 our wise and omnipotent founders began to try figuring out how to count slaves as population for representation. Finally in 1787, they figured it out. This ridiculous “conclusion’ blacks did not agree to allowed actual humans to count as 3/5th’s of a person because they were slaves. Whites still counted as whole people.
Identity politics are embedded in the constitution. Whites have played identity politics from the start giving themselves special treatment based on color for perpetuity.
The Naturalization Act of 1790. The act states: “any alien, being a free white person,” could apply for citizenship, so long as he or she lived in the United States for at least two years, and in the state where the application was filed for at least a year.
Dred Scott v Sandford. “A black man has no right’s a white man is bound to respect”.
“And be it further enacted, That to all white male citizens of the United States or persons who shall have made a declaration of intention to become such, above the age of twenty-one years, emigrating to and settling in said Territory between the first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; and to all white male citizens, not hereinbefore provided for, becoming one and twenty years of age, in said Territory, and settling there between the times last aforesaid, who shall in other respects comply with the foregoing section and the provisions of this law, there shall be, and hereby is, granted the quantity of one quarter section, or one hundred and sixty acres of land, if a single man; or if married, or if he shall become married within one year after becoming twenty-one years of age as aforesaid, the quantity of one half section, or three hundred and twenty acres, one half to the husband and the other half to the wife in her own right, to be designated by the surveyor-general as aforesaid: Provided always, That no person shall ever receive a patent for more than one donation of land in said Territory in his or her own right: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be located or granted under the provisions of this act.”
The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, Section 5
Jim Crow, Black Codes, Sundown towns, redlining, restrictive covenants, FHA racism, Refusal to give black vets GI benefits, racial bias in education and law enforcement, sub prime mortgages, etc. Identity politics.