Hatred, fear and violence have try to cripple and destroy a culture for hundreds of years.

The ‘logic of racism’ is the assigning of imaginary differences.

This leads to the rationale of oppression by racists.

This rationale became institutionalized, through pen to paper.
It allowed the whites becoming rich through slave trade. The book Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the books hero becomes wealthy through slave trade. This was a time when white oppressors believed black people to be “savages” and “ “cannibals.” During the same century, the Founding
Fathers described black people as 3/5s of a human. White supremacy is at the core of America. It committed genocide and then built a country on slavery. In Gullivers Travels, the crew take a land for the king to civilise a “barbarous” people. Colonialism is Africa was robbery
violence and murder on a grand scale. Looking at early movies such as “Rastus in Zululand” in 1910, blacks were portrayed as cannibals. In 1911, “Tony the Greaser” reduced Mexicans to “greasers” and the 1915 movie “Birth of a Nation” idealised slavery and degraded slaves.
We know Hollywood movies portrayed Native Americans as the intruders. Children would play Cowboys and Indians, where the Cowboys were the “ goodies.” In fact, in the 1950’s, Hollywood tried to show the complete absence of black people. Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man” shows New York
Subways and prisons that was totally devoid of blacks. Even films like Shaft just have heroes that fit nicely into characters that could easily be white. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner invites an elite black into the club, but always on white terms.
Racism, in America is at the
core of its ideals. It goes back centuries and Make America Great Again is exactly that. There was once talk on “neo-racism” but there is nothing to define that the racism we see today is a new type of racism, it has all of the anatomy of the racism of old. This neo-racism
was based on “the White supremist view has all but disappeared.” This we know is not the case. It also stated that racial prejudice “ was no longer a major political force” we know this not to be true also. Old-fashioned racism remains alive and all too well. You also hear it
In comments such as “ white America is no longer racist.” When neo-racism was put forward, it was logically flawed, it had its hypotheses, but no methodology or empirical evidence to back it up. If they cannot distinguish empirically the differences between old and new racism,
the variables become too closely correlated, it’s like trying to find differences in the same thing. That’s empirically impossible. It is clear that there are Americans that want to conserve an America that was built on the supremacy of whites. And America never really wanted to
change. After the Civil War, statues should have been destroyed and certain flags made illegal. This would have been the beginning of real change, but it never happened. They were allowed to continue.
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