The United States of America is a racist country....true or false ? 🇺🇸

After last nights election, and the recent results in Georgia, and in Florida. It is obvious that the mental stronghold on certain segments of White America still have an impact that results in an unnecessary fear based on propaganda and division. It ain't that damn bad, ok. It could be worse. Do you agree, that the US is still to some degree a racist country.

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quitwhendone · M

Countries aren't racist. People are racist. The USA has had racist policies codified into law with slavery and Jim Crow laws. The USA also has a multitude of racist citizens of all races, just like every other country.

Strictgram · 70-79, C

@quitwhendone Slavery and Jim Crow originated with democrats as I think most people know. Every racist gov was a dem.

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Zonuss · 41-45, M

@tindrummer And then began again with the Republicans. 🙂

quitwhendone · M

@Strictgram Slavery started here long before the US was a country. It had nothing to do with any party. And, yes, I know that Jim Crow laws were initiated with racist southerners who just so happened to be part of the Democratic party. And...? What's your point?

Parties change. The Democratic and Republican parties have both changed a lot over the years. The Democratic party has long been the populist, working man's party. But it began changing in the 1960s when Democratic leadership got behind the Civil Rights movement and when Black politicians started getting elected and became powerful in the party, especially in the South. Southern whites began fleeing the party and went to the GOP.

The Republican party has changed a LOT, internally, since 2009, with the advent of the Tea Party, which was, in part, a backlash against the election of a Black president. It's changed even more with the ascension of Trump as party leader. The old guard Republicans like the Bushes, Reagan, Ford, Dole, and McCain wouldn't recognize or stand for the GOP as it is today. American Conservatism, itself, has changed a lot in the past three or four decades with the advent of right-wing talk radio and a television news network devoted solely to countering liberalism and Democrats.

And the parties will change again in the decades to come. Let's see where they go.