06-13-2020, 02:19 PM
sekker wrote:
Ignore the racism issues (much of the North were free states or had few non-whites).
This statement undermines everything else you say.
The myth that any part of America's past, no matter where geographically or historically, can be reasonably considered apart from racism is a racist idea.
America's structure from its inception, meaning the union of all its states, the merging of its economies, and the development of its 'democracy', has been predicated on the racist idea that Black people are inferior to Whites. Trade relationships, military alliances (pre- and post-Civil War), deep financial and banking ties, a common heritage of anti-indigenous genocide, and a shared federal government make all of the United States complicit in its racist policies, past and present.