Is America Doomed to Repeat Its Racist Past?

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16. I agree, Solly.

"They want to hate." That to me is the very essence of what we are dealing with. We can't educate that away or shame it away or legislate it away. It is who they are and they will procreate and pass it on.

What cycles isn't racism but the public face of racism. I can remember back in the 1950s when it was common to see horrendously racist cartoons in our newspapers and ads in magazines; in the 1960s some people were still casually speaking of n***** without giving it a thought. These types of things disappeared in the mainstream, but they were always still very much alive. I think that many of us white people placed too much stock in the visible progress that had been made without looking beneath it to reality of the struggle going on beneath the surface. Charlottesville shocked a lot of people but it shouldn't have. Trump made it safer for them to strut their vileness, but he didn't birth them. They have been living among us all along.