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Originally Posted by Destroyer
We can throw out numbers all day especially when no one is citing sources
Trust me, the media wants you to believe that the majority of people are racist
That simply isn’t true
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I just named a source and a reason for it. If the majority of the people in this country were against racism, Donald Trump would not be president. Point blank motherfucking period.
You want to dig into how the vast majority of people in this country who are white do a damn fucking thing about the deeply racist "drug war", itself or the prison industrial complex it feeds? Or how the Supreme Court supports amployers right to discriminate against you based on hairstyle, specifically dreadlocks and afros? Or the practice of schools to suspend children for the same...EVERY single person who supports the men and women who pass and support these actions are straight out affecting fucking racism.
Those men and women, I'll remind you are the "representatives' in congress and sitting on the supreme court and in the office of the President...the fact that these people run a republic whose leaders are elected by vote should tell you all you need to know about how at least 50 percent of this country REALLY feels about the subject.
You want us to cite sources for something that is readily established in this country? How about you cite a source that shows us how all these laws, precedents, the representatives who support them, and the citizens who apparently voted for them, are not directly responsible for supporting and willfully perpetuating institutionalized racism.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the country to associate mrijuana with hippies, and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did..."
-John Erlichmen
Advisor to Nixon
This country institutes laws ad regulations, sets precedents like this, and carries it out nightly on TV...and STILL, it continues. How can you honestly tell me, that a REPUBLIC, that is ostensibly driven by Democracy, can have this happen without recourse...can allow this to continue, and HAS been allowing to it not only continue, but expand for 50 years...how can anything but HALF this country be supportive of it? How can we interpret it as mening anything BUT half this country is racist?
When racist laws and practices are allowed to not only pass but persist...by majority vote?