andel posted...
Vita_Aeterna posted...
Ben111 posted...
@Vita_Aeterna posted...
White supremacy has been in the DNA of Americans more-so than any other group, and that's a damn fact.
No it isnt. If that was a fact then Obama would never of been president, Ophra would never be one of the most popular people on tv, and football/basketball wouldnt be so popular.
That has nothing to with my statement.
When I say DNA, I don't mean the literal, but rather figurative DNA, a social, cultural and political history of white supremacy since the country's inception.
well definitely not more so than a country like germany that had the entire government modeled around white supremacy and murdering non white people.
as for the topic title, yes, white supremacy is a problem
That was one little instance of white supremacy that blew the hell out of proportion due to various circumstances and causes that is too complex to discuss right now. In fact, Germany was more accepting of Jews in the latter half of the 19th century than Russians. Other than that the United States was born out of the idea that all men should be free, specifically ALL WHITE MEN: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness", but this idea did not extent to African-Americans as we all know. It took the U.S 32 more years to abolish slavery when the U.K did it in 1833. An entire war was fought to keep the Southern states to unite with the North because the South wanted to allow and expand slavery, and keep a balance of power of Southern, slave-owning states. It took up until the 1960s for Civil Rights movement to end segregation and other forms of institutionalized racism. Yeah the U.S has a deeper history of white supremacy, and racism more than any other.
Sure they've come a long ways from that birth, thanks to great, progressive men and various events that helped push these old and tired racist beliefs out.
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