Is America Racist?

a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n

Yes America is racist against whites and it's disgustingly vile.

Is America Racist?

With all the one sided political infiltration at high authority government levels and the onslaught of small group minorities trying to rule supreme over the vast majority, I'd say it's reverse racism !! 😎💎

a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n

White supremacy in the USA until the 1960's was a lot like how Iran condemned the 9/11 attacks. "These acts are deplorable" as the public statement, and sending a gift basket to the families.

But since the 60's.

I have a friend in Poland that said Mein Kampf became a hot seller only after The Syrian refugees showed up. I'm sure that is true for many countries along that immigrant corridor.*

[* New conspiracy. Russia went into Syria to cause a mass muslim migration into the eastern flank of NATO and through Ukraine knowing full well it would cause an exploitable rise in Nationalism]

These views are a draw anytime unwanted new ways are made something you have to replace your own with.

In Poland the Muslims low tolerance for any commentary on their religion or customs was seen as, "So you want to come to Poland as refugees and still make everyone dance around your sensitivities? Why do we need to do what you want?"

The result was a rise in white supremacy and nationalism, but not necessarily both.

Similarity is why Trump was considered a racist president to the most reactive on the left. He came with the revamped 50's ethos similar to 30's Germany in enough ways to cause crocodile tears to flow. And although Trumps wasn't totalitarian and attempted to be all-inclusive, anything that seeks greatness through Nationalistic politics (Anti-globalist, closed borders, country first) becomes enough to call it Neo-Naziism or racist.

And to tie it to another thread that's why the most offended want offensive literature banned. They want to curb "free speech" by going after all the literature that motivates people before they can people become book burning Nazis.

Wait...

I don’t think Americans in general are racist but they sure obsess about race

Been a mass shooting, then let’s discuss the race of the perp

Been a murder, let’s discuss the race of the perp

New judge, let’s discuss the race of the judge

New superhero, what race are they

Actor taking on a role, what colour are they

originally posted by: LastFirst

originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n

The Left is unbelievably inescapably whole heartily 100% Racist .

But America as a whole no.

You have your opinion and no facts to back it up..

Affirmative Action, the specific operating method of the government is BASED ON RACE.

clearly the dictionary would make a great addition to your life

Thank you mate , you've provided the proof.

Affirmative Action A Bill passed by Lyndon B Johnson a Democrat in case you were wondering , and it is blatantly Racist.

originally posted by: Smigg
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n

Yes America is racist against whites and it's disgustingly vile.

Facts!

originally posted by: Alien Abduct

originally posted by: Smigg
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n

Yes America is racist against whites and it's disgustingly vile.

Facts!

Yes it is a fact thanks for pointing that out.

a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n

I don't want to hear "well, they were racist logos!", you tell Aunt Jemima that when she need to feed her 20 kids.

Aunt Jemima - From Wikipedia:

The Aunt Jemima name and character, appropriated from a vaudeville blackface character by Chris L. Rutt and Charles G. Underwood for their ready-made pancake flour mix at the Pearl Milling Company, is generally considered to be based on the enslaved "Mammy" archetype.[4][5] The use of the brand name became an important precedent in U.S. trademark law in a 1915 case between the pancake mix company and an unrelated seller of pancake syrup. The brand has been owned by the Quaker Oats Company (now part of PepsiCo) since 1926.[2]

Nancy Green portrayed the Aunt Jemima character at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, one of the first Black corporate models in the United States.[1] Subsequent advertising agencies hired dozens of actors to perform the role as the first organized sales promotion campaign.

Nancy Green - From Wikipedia

Nancy Green (March 4, 1834 – August 30, 1923) was an American formerly enslaved person, nanny, cook, activist, and the first of many African-American models and performers hired to promote a corporate trademark as "Aunt Jemima". The famous Aunt Jemima recipe was not her recipe, but she became the advertising world's first living trademark.

Nancy Hayes (or Hughes) was born enslaved on March 4, 1834.[2] Montgomery County Historical Society oral history places her birth at a farm on Somerset Creek, six miles outside Mount Sterling in Montgomery County, Kentucky. She had at least two and as many as four children (one of whom was born in 1862) with George Green. Local farmers from that area named Green raised tobacco, hay, cattle, and hogs. There were no birth certificates or marriage licenses for enslaved people.
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Green has been variously described as a servant, nurse, nanny, housekeeper, and cook for Charles Morehead Walker and his wife Amanda.[6][2][4][5][7] She also served the family's next generation, again as a nanny and a cook. Walker's two sons later became well known as Chicago Circuit Judge Charles M. Walker, Jr., and Dr. Samuel J. Walker.[6][5][7]

By the end of the American Civil War, Green had already lost her husband and children. She lived in a wood frame shack (still standing as of 2014) behind a grand home on Main Street in Covington, Kentucky.[2][4] She moved with the Walkers from Kentucky to Chicago in the early 1870s, before the birth of Samuel's youngest child in 1872.[7] The Walker family initially settled in a swank residential district near Ashland Avenue and Washington Boulevard called the "Kentucky Colony", then home to many transplanted Kentuckians.

So, YES:

• "Aunt Jemima" is a caricature, NOT a 'person'.
  
• "Aunt Jemima" is a racist stereotype, derived from blackface minstrel shows.
  
• "Aunt Jemima" was chosen as the trademark/logo by the developer of the Pancake recipe, a white guy, specifically to leverage the 'mammy' figure.
  
• The 'mammy' figure is a stereotyped image of the black servant, relegated to domestic service by virtue of her black skin.
  
• "Aunt Jemima" was portrayed, in the first instance, by a real person named Nancy Green.
  
• Nancy Green was born a slave, had (at most) 4 children (not 20), and lost them all by 1865.
  
• Nancy Green was hired to portray "Aunt Jemima" in 1893 - TWENTY EIGHT years after she had lost her children.
  
  

Your ignorance betrays your agenda. In the only example you went into detail about, you got every detail wrong.

The answer to your question is "yes" and "no".

There are millions of racist Americans. Overt, covert, and accidental.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of racist laws in America. Overt, covert, and accidental.

But America is NOT inherently racist as a nation. You remember the Declaration of Independence, don't you?

"We hold these truths to be self evident ... that ALL men are created equal..." ('men' = 'mankind')

Of course it takes PEOPLE and LAWS and SYSTEMS to put that into practice, and America has made much progress AND made many mistakes - but ALL means ALL. If you single out any section of humanity, and decide that they are not equal to others and therefore don't matter, then ALL lives don't matter.

If some people are not free, then "ALL people" are not free.
If black lives don't matter, then ALL lives don't matter.
If trans lives don't matter, then ALL lives don't matter.
If First Nations Peoples lives don't matter, then ALL lives don't matter.

No society is perfect - and the attempt to improve it takes a lot of hard work.

I just wish you could find it in your heart to help instead of moan about your imagined loss of privilege.

a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
There is not yet thought crime here.
The constitution protects buttholes, so yes.