A Tale of Two Mothers in America in a Post Racial Society

[RainDog]

116. American society is racist

anyone who disputes this has little to no knowledge of past or current history, and maybe even a lack of understanding about the very term "racist society."

but please tell me how your study of history has indicated that America is not a racist society.

fwiw - to note an overarching political and social reality is not to say every single person within a society is racist, or that people do not try to address the racism that is part of the cultural atmosphere within a society in which someone lives, and which they breathe in, without thought, but simply b/c it is all around them, like the air...if the majority of history and law and the application of the law demonstrates racism that repeats itself with variations generation after generation - that's a racist society...and I don't say that as an accusation toward any person - just as an acknowledgement of culturally available facts that demonstrate bias against, in this case, African Americans in the United States.

France is a racist society, even though it was the first to agitate for the end of all slavery, and even though African Americans in the past - and present - often find French society less racist than American. If you talked to immigrants from Algeria, etc. you would know about this racism more than you would as a African-American visiting that nation.