It's just my life.

I was around 10 or 11 when integration of schools began in my medium size North Florida home town. Previously my elementary school was a block or two away. After integration I rode a bus a few miles to a historically black elementary school that was repurposed to only have 5th and 6th graders from all around town. I had absolutely no issue, I don’t recall any of the children having any issue with it but I’m it sure caused plenty of white parents ‘angst’. This experience led me to see that ,sadly, racism is taught to children and the terrible harm it does.

After the last number of years Republicans have no room to hide. If one is a Republican then one is a racist. Plain and simple. No longer any cover provided by the empty phrase ‘I’m a conservative not a racist’. Maybe there never has been any cover, but now it is, as Malaise would say, pellucidly clear.

I appreciate your comment. However I respectfully disagree with the idea that all republicans are racist.

We live in a world of chaos, it's very difficult for us to find truth when we were filled with lies.
If you ever have the opportunity to speak to someone who's a Republican voter. You will find that their personal motivation is not bent toward racism. Typically they have bought into the sub categories that the republican elected officials claim exist within their Party. They might be pro small government.
They might be a one issue voter about abortion because they tie it to their religion.

They're not looking at the big picture of the overall ideology of the Republican party. Simply because they're comfortable with their one issue that they've determined makes them a Republican.

So I understand where you're coming from because we are outside looking into their party. Just as they do the same to the Democratic Party. And when you're outside of a party it looks like everyone is there with the same goal. But once you go inside you realize each person has an individual reason for being a part of that party. And very rarely is that reason racism.

Thank you for your comment though it is beautiful.
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My entire extended family are southern, small, rural town Republicans.
They are primarily Evangelical Christians. They hide behind this banner despite voting for the most un-Christian of policies (not helping the poor etc) and un- Christian of candidates (Trump, twice.). Not a one of them is a multi-millionaire, let alone a billionaire so I can’t attribute their affiliation to greed.

You are right, they may not all be racists (and anti LGBQT), but if they aren’t they sure don’t mind embracing and being accessories to racists. For this reason I put them in the same category as racists.

It's amazing that they see the same things we see, but are still able to dig in do they one belief that keeps them a Republican. They treat their one belief as if it's not part of a hole that's keeping the watch ticking.

It's OK the tides are turning, even Fox noise is beginning to let more truth leak out.

Many Republicans may not be racists, but they seem to be silent when members of their party come out with openly racists statements or policies. If you aren't a racist, but you're OK letting your police department or other government agency engage in racist actions can an outside observer actually tell that you're not a racist?

I've watched and looked at things for a long time as well, what I can see are centuries of bigotry from mild to extreme that are perpetuated to maintain one dominant culture in this country. An example is changing your name to make it more English looking/sounding. The myth our great grandparents told their children was that the immigration people did it because they couldn't understand the names. The truth is the immigration people had the passenger manifests and knew what the name was, sure some things don't transfer into English orthography, but it was the individual who changed the name to make themselves appear less foreign. That's pretty benign I guess, but it changed lots of European ethic groups into white, English and stripped plenty of people of more unique heritages.

But white folks who could change their names were lucky, it's harder for people who don't look white and English to pass. The problem is that all those white folks seem to have passed on the resentment of having to pass to their kids, but didn't acquire any compassion to temper it.

even though it is personally painful.

And also getting worse. It is becoming totalitarian. And the "conservatives" don't want to recognize the racism.

How many times have we heard people caught in the act of blatant racism on tape then say ‘that’s not who I am’, ‘I was having a bad day’ or ‘I was drinking’ ad nauseous.

It's interesting on how republicans tongues always slip on racism isn't it

Oops

Thank you for sharing.

I didn't mean for it to sadden anyone
I hope people see the beauty in the truth
And it provides the clarity we may need to lean on when the republicans are trying sew a seed of complacency within the Democratic Party potential voters.

Example Rising Gas Prices
That's always an easy hot button they like to push whatever democrats are in office.

Remember when Jimmy Carter was in office and there was a gasoline shortage and everyone blamed poor jimmy Carney.

And what did we get next Ronald Reagan a man who used cocaine. Funneled into the black communities is crack... In an attempt to fund illegal operations in the unran contra affair.

And then had the audacity to make crack, carry more for prison symptoms than cocaine.

And so not only did they create a money making scheme and a listed drug into the black communities. They also use that opportunity to completely destroy the black community and make money off of our black men and women by throwing them into their now for profit prisons. And not one president has decided to correct that wrong in a meaningful enough way.

Those people's records are not exponged, Those people don't get pardons, Many of those people only recently got their voting rights back.

Find the joy in the truth. Does the long as we remember history.

We are not doomed to repeat it💜

I believe that we as a country have never come to terms with our racist past—not that racism is in the past. It is alive and well in many of the sick parts of our society. I fully agree with you that much of what the Republican Party stands for can be described as slavery. To be enslaved is to be held in bondage. The plight of black and brown school children forced to attend substandard public schools is a form of bondage because most of their parents cannot afford to send them to better schools.

The plight of undocumented agricultural workers who are denied a path to citizenship is a form of bondage because they have no rights without citizenship, even after having worked here for decades.

The plight of women forced to birth unwanted children is a form of unwilling bondage because the woman is now forced to carry the burden of caring for a child, often without the economic resources to do so.

The future plight of LGBTQ if Republicans are able to resurrect sodomy laws and overturn same-sex marriage and other civil rights will become a form of bondage as LGBTQ will either have to flee for their lives from red states or face living in secret and fearing being caught.

The image of slavery should no longer be the black person in shackles. The Republican Party has found ways to metaphorically shackle black and brown people, women, and LGBTQ.

And if we always speak about the Republican party in terms of their Is unstated ideology.
Our entire country would never fall for their bullshit. Because let's face it. No one has ever chosen to be a slave.

Was only two cops in the town, Sheriff hated guns, and the bumbling deputy had to keep one bullet in his shirt pocket. And of course Aunt Bees home cooked meals to any rarely locked up citizen. But that beautiful scenario would only work in a town with no blacks there criming everything up.

And the only person married was the town drunk🤣🤣🤣

for sharing your truth.

THIS IS OUR TRUTH

My story is the American story. THAT never gets told. HOWEVER IN OUR HEARTS, we all know TRUTH when we hear it. Read it, and also experience it.