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A thought. \u00a0Is America a Racist Nation<\/a>? \u00a0Yep. \u00a0That\u2019s because America inherited the racist justifications used to excuse the African slave trade and persecution of American Indians by the European imperialist powers. \u00a0Protestant England, Catholic Spain and Portugal, and yes, the Islamic world. \u00a0All had their own Racist Justifications for what they knew was wrong, but a justification for what they wanted. <\/p>\n

The thing is, America is a young nation formed in the midst of this. \u00a0Those cultures and nations and kingdoms were already ancient by the time the Founding Fathers came together to make some sense of this mess. \u00a0The slavery and racism that America had on day one of its official existence was, of course, the gift given from England. \u00a0Not that England was unique. \u00a0But that\u2019s where it came from, and it was in their blood like persecuting opposition to gay marriage is in our blood today.<\/p>\n

But when it was time, those cultures could simply dilute those racist excuses into the larger pool of their more ancient cultures, customs, traditions, values, and histories. \u00a0America as a nation couldn\u2019t. \u00a0Racism used in America to excuse African slavery and Indian persecution was there from day one. \u00a0There is nothing greater to swallow it up. <\/p>\n

Of course that\u2019s not to say racism only exists in America. \u00a0Or that those other European nations don\u2019t still have traces of it in their blood. \u00a0But if England adopted flagrant racism to excuse the slave trade or stealing land from the native inhabitants, all of which it benefited from for almost 200 years, that was only a small part of its history that stretches back centuries upon centuries. \u00a0Same with Spain. \u00a0Or any of the Islamic states that had their own brand of \u2018they\u2019re just so close to animals\u2019 reasoning to justify the robust Arabic slave trade. <\/p>\n

America? \u00a0Nope. \u00a0Our existence has had that from day one. \u00a0If we got rid of all traces of racism tomorrow, we would have to exist another 600 to 800 years without racism to have the same amount of overarching culture to swallow up the blight. \u00a0That we\u2019ve come this far already, in only a matter of a dozen generations or so, is \u2013 to me at least \u2013 a point to celebrate. \u00a0Especially when we consider the fact that in such a short time, there are 15% of non-whites in the US Congress, vs. 4.2% non-whites in the much more ancient (and far less racist) British Parliament. \u00a0Put that in your clay pipe and smoke it.<\/p>\n

Just saying. \u00a0Since this week is a week once reserved for, among other things, thanking God, being with family, celebrating our heritage; now it\u2019s a week to be reminded of white racists imperialists slaughtering godlike indigenous people in order to set up a holiday which is only good as a means for increasing Wall Street\u2019s bottom line. \u00a0I thought it was worth the reflection.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"