The US does have a racist past and present. Racialization is a leftist invention. After the slavery, progressives arose and there has never been real attempt at reversing their racist agenda. Take minimum wage for example.
The operation of the minimum wage requirement would merely extend the definition of defectives to embrace all individuals, who even after having received special training, remain incapable of adequate self-support... If we are to maintain a race that is to be made of up of capable, efficient and independent individuals and family groups we must courageously cut off lines of heredity that have been proved to be undesirable by isolation or sterilization.
-Henry Rogers Seager, President of the American Association for Labor Legislation
It is much better to enact a minimum-wage law even if it deprives these unfortunates of work, better that the state should support the inefficient wholly and prevent the multiplication of the breed than subsidize incompetence and unthrift, enabling them to bring forth more of their kind.
-Royal Meeker, U.S. Commissioner of Labor under Woodrow Wilson
[Minimum wages] protect the white Australian’s standard of living from the invidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese.
To our reproach it must be said, that though for a century and a half we have had under our eyes the races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history. I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. It is not against experience to suppose, that different species of the same genus, or varieties of the same species, may posses different qualifications. Will not a lover of natural history then, one who views the gradations in all the races of animals with the eye of philosophy, excuse an effort to keep those in the department of man as distinct as nature has formed them? This unfortunate difference of colour, and perhaps of faculty, is a powerful obstacle to the emancipation of these people. Many of their advocates, while they wish to vindicate the liberty of human nature, are anxious also to preserve its dignity and beauty. Some of these, embarrassed by the question 'What further is to be done with them?' join themselves in opposition with those who are actuated by sordid avarice only. Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history. When freed, he is to be removed beyond the reach of mixture.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
It was always a "racist" country, because racial differences have always been self-evident.
A quote from it thought I'd put here, "they say we're a nation of immigrants, while at the same time he have a hideously racist past."
Maybe I should watch, because on it's own those two statements are not mutually exclusive.
Nah, maybe all these immigrants long for a good dose of opression.
It can't be, that living even in a hypothetical racist as fuck US is still orders of magnitude better than at least 70% of the planet.
The US does have a racist past and present. Racialization is a leftist invention. After the slavery, progressives arose and there has never been real attempt at reversing their racist agenda. Take minimum wage for example.
-Henry Rogers Seager, President of the American Association for Labor Legislation
-Royal Meeker, U.S. Commissioner of Labor under Woodrow Wilson
-Arthur Holcomb, Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
It was always a "racist" country, because racial differences have always been self-evident.