Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?

[Nevilledog]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/the-end-of-denial/614194/


Marine One waited for the president of the United States on the South Lawn of the White House. It was July 30, 2019, not long past 9 a.m.

Donald Trump was headed to historic Jamestown to mark the 400th anniversary of the first representative assembly of European settlers in the Americas. But Black Virginia legislators were boycotting the visit. Over the preceding two weeks, the president had been engaged in one of the most racist political assaults on members of Congress in American history.

Like so many controversies during Trump’s presidency, it had all started with an early-morning tweet.

“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,” Trump tweeted on Sunday, July 14, 2019. “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough.”

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[zipplewrath]

1. Yes

That's the simple answer. We're at the 100+ year anniversary of women's suffrage. We're at the 75 year of the end of WWII. We're approaching the 50th of so many civil rights anniversaries. LGBTQ rights have expanded greatly over the last few years. We want to address these issues. But it requires a body politic that doesn't spend time on birth certificates and spends it on issues that really matter.

[abqtommy]

2. +100