tailgater wrote:I find the complete opposite is true.
Sure, there are your occasional bonehead racist or malcontent that wants to blame race on all of life's woes.
But overall I find that people are accepting in this country.
Honest question: What would it take for your to view America as being inclusive?
I b*tch a lot on these boards because it's fun.
But pointing out the azzwipes is different than feeling that our country is inherently repulsive. Which is what I consider racism to be in this year 2017.
Sometimes bad things happen.
We need to stop blaming bad things on skin color or religion.
We are no more a nation of racists than we are a nation of murderers. We have both, but they don't define us. Unless we let them.
That was not the point I was trying, obviously inarticulately, to make. I do not think our country is repulsive, only some of the main levers of power. The last segment of my rant states in a nutshell where my view of the current state of America is. We are better situated than any other country in the world to achieve greater success and move mankind forward. What would it take to make me feel America is more inclusive?
We need an overhaul of our political process that empowers the wealthiest among us (including the Koch Brothers and their cronies who evolved from originating the John Birch Society/spawn of KKK) to control media outlets, buy politicians, write favorable legislation for their businesses, enact tax dodges for themselves and denigrate science and the studies of their industries that prove they are slowly destroying the world. Their media mouthpieces influence their audiences, large swaths of the population, with hate filled propaganda aimed at instilling fear and hatred of poor people, especially colored poor people. While they are lining their pockets, building their wealth at everyman's expense and avoiding paying their fair share of taxes, they pit the middle-class against the poor, blaming the poor for all the nation's problems. They seem to have little interest in advancing knowledge to improve the world, to rebuild the systems that allowed their rise, to replenish public education systems that helped produce the labor pool that filled their company's staffs. They are motivated only to squeeze more profits. Trump is the embodiment of that.
They may or may not be racists...I lean towards the former based on their behavior. They use race to divide us all.