The cries of racism are more shrill and louder than they have ever been in our nation. Yet, the term racist or racism means less now than it has ever meant. Someone stated that “nothing is racist if everything is racist.” This is a true statement. If everything is racist, then racism is the norm for that society. If everything in the United States is racist, there is no racism in the United States!
The socialists who are trying to
destroy our constitutional government are using race to divide and conquer
Americans. I believe that there are racists in America, but I also believe that
they are relatively few. This is especially true when compared to the millions
of people who are called racist!
In an effort to understand exactly
what is meant by racist or racism, I went to a dictionary for a
definition. Merriam-Webster online dictionary defined racism as “a
belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities
and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular
race.” The Free Dictionary online defined racist as “the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability
and that a particular race is a superior to others; discrimination or prejudice
based on race.”
In other words, a racist is any person that is intolerant,
prejudiced, or bigoted against another person or group of people of a certain
race – or against a person or group of people that are not a certain race. If
any person – White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Mexican, or whatever – thinks that
their race is superior to every other race, that person is a racist no matter
to what race they belong.
Most Americans – particularly those who voted for
Barack Obama for President in 2008 – thought that electing a Black man as
President would end racism in the United States. His election made the race
problem worse than it had been for several previous decades.
Now we are being told that the United States has been
racist since its beginning and fought the Revolutionary War to maintain the
institution of slavery. We are told that even our founding documents – the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution of the United States – are racist. I
recently learned that highways are racist, and today I learned that soap
dispensers are racist. We obviously have systemic racism from the top to the
bottom of our nation! Yet, if everything is racist, nothing is racist.
I also sought understanding about systemic racism and found this definition at Cambridge: “policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization, and that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race.”
If the United States is guilty of systemic racism, only
one race would be thriving, and the leaders of the nation would be coming from
only one race. For example, Whites should be the only race thriving if the
United States has systemic racism. That would mean that there could not be any presidents,
vice presidents, governors, mayors, sports stars, CEOs of corporations, etc.
that are of any other race. We know that this is not true and is becoming less
true with time.
President Barack Obama is a Black man. Vice President Kamala Harris is a Black woman. Tim Scott is a Black senator, and Maxine Waters is a Black congresswoman with many other Black representatives joining her there. Oprah Winfrey is a famous Black television star, and Meghan Markle is a Black woman married to Prince Harry. There are thousands, maybe millions of other Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Mexican leaders in our nation. This number does not include all the Black super stars on football and basketball teams. It also does not include citizens of Asian, Hispanic, or Mexican descent who are leaders. This site gives information on the racial makeup in the current Congress.
About a quarter of voting members (23%) of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are racial or ethnic minorities, making the 117th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse in history. There has been a long-running trend toward higher numbers of non-White lawmakers on Capitol Hill: This is the sixth Congress to break the record set by the one before it.
Overall, 124 lawmakers today identify as Black,
Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native American, according to a Pew
Research Center analysis of data from the Congressional Research Service. This
represents a 97% increase over the 107th Congress of 2001-03, which
had 63 minority members.
Among today’s senators and representatives, the
overwhelming majority of racial and ethnic minority members are Democrats
(83%), while 17% are Republicans. This represents a shift from the last
Congress, when just 10% of non-White lawmakers were Republicans. Our analysis
reflects the 532 voting members of Congress seated as of Jan. 26, 2021.
How can the United States be systematically racist when citizens elect a Black president, a Black vice president, a Black senator, and thousands of Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Mexican representatives, governors, mayors, and other leaders – with the numbers increasing? It is not possible! However, I will admit that there are racists and bigots in the United States, and I believe that they come from every race.
Most Americans judge people on their
character and not the color of their skin. I hardly noticed the difference in
races – I saw the difference but it did not matter – until the past dozen
years. Now, I cannot NOT notice it because of the cries of racism and racist.
My husband and I have trusted our cars and trucks to a
Black mechanic and his family for nearly four decades. We did not take our
business to him because of the color of his skin. We went to him the first time
on a friend’s recommendation, and he proved to be an excellent, fair, and
honest mechanic. If he had been anything less, we would have taken our business
elsewhere.
Although the heritage of both my
husband and I and our posterity to this point is White European, my extended
family is a mixture of all races. We have family members who are Alaska Native,
Asian, Black, Hispanic, Mexican, Native American, and several Central and South
American. We know that certain family members are other races, but it makes no
difference because they are family.
This is the way that America should
be. We should treat each other as human beings no matter the color of our
skins. We should not expect anyone to be less of what they are, whether they
are Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, Mexican, or whatever. God created them the
way that they are, and we are all His children. We are family, and we should
start acting like family! We are Americans and should work together to make
American as great as it can be!
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