- Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:00 pm
#130389
"If America is not the least racist big country in human history, then you'll be glad to provide your choice for that country."-johnfoibles
johnny, the United States was officially 100% racist until 1868. 100%. It's in the Constitution.
And despite your silly yammering about how you always give 105% to your endeavors, there isn't actually anything greater than 100%.
After that, a huge chunk of the country was still officially racist. There was Jim Crow around the South.(And a lot of the North.)
Blacks could not legally stay at hotels or eat at restaurants or drink out of water fountains and swim in public pools even as late as the 1960s. That's racist, johnny, believe it or not. I know you simply accepted it as the way things were, and I know you think they should just go eat and sleep with their own kind, but I hate to break it to you, that's still racist. And perpetrators of those injustices from the 1960s are still alive. They owe it to people today to try to make it right.
Blacks couldn't even vote in much of the country because they were not allowed to register or were lynched if they did vote. Until the Civil Rights Act in 1964 that's the way it was.
Today Republicans are STILL trying to stop blacks from voting in Georgia and dozens of other states, going so far as to make it a crime to take them water if they are standing for hours in intentionally caused lines outside the polls. That's now official legal policy. That's today, not the past. That's at least 90% racist, johnny. It's not debatable. It's a fact.
But let's not get sidetracked by the blatant ugliness of your silly assertion. Let's pretend for a moment that America actually "is the least racist big country in human history." (If that isn't an absolutely meaningless and unmeasurable assessment, I don't know what is. "Look, they're 60% racist and we're only 55% racist, so that makes it okay and we don't need to change a thing or improve or pursue social justice." That's embarrassingly racist all by itself, johnny, and it reflects a large portion of America, and includes YOU specifically.)
Now, even if your silly statement is somehow true, so what? You don't get points and brag about it just because you are slightly less horrible than some other horrible racist country. Injustice is injustice regardless of how many black people are victims of it or how many privileged white people benefit from it. You, as a white Irish male are STILL benefiting from the injustice of the past 400 years on a daily basis. That's not your "fault" but it's true. You don't need to feel guilty about it. You just need to help change it. If you PERSONALLY are not doing something to realize the "equal opportunity" you argue is the solution, then you are just ineffectually blowing hot air. (As you are wont to do.)
Whites can't turn back the clock, and we can't undo the injustice perpetrated on the dead victims of the past, but we CAN try to lessen the additional 150-year handicap legally placed upon the living victims of racism in this country.
- By Clownkicker