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callese · 10 months
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b0bthebuilder35 · 8 months
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ABOLITION NOW.
When I look around, it pains me to see so much suffering. What pains me even more is watching human beings blatantly ignore each other’s suffering. It seems unfathomable to me. This country that so many think is somehow “great”; “progressive”; “evolved” was built upon “Indigenous genocide, African enslavement, looting, exploited Asian and Latine labor, mass manipulation, white supremacist violence, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and cisgender fear” (@/RISEIndigenous on IG). We have done nothing to address ANY of this in the last FIVE HUNDRED YEARS.
In fact, through our education, law, penal, economic, science, food, water, you-name-it systems, through every facet of this society, these horrific and backward values, morals, and ideals work in deafening silence to incise themselves into each person’s individual and collective psyche. Every single day we hear about another act of mass terror. Every single day there’s another mass shooting, an instance of police brutality or murder, another politician doing something horrific, another child missing or murdered, unsafe working conditions or another company doing some awful thing to its workers, another viral racist/ableist/sexist encounter, death, dying, disease, the list goes on and on and on... Violence surrounds us, eats away at us, forces us to believe this is normal. The spectacle of violence and other human beings’ suffering has become our everyday life. We see it on the news, on social media, in tv shows and movies, in the written word, in the streets, in our classrooms. It’s inescapable, intentionally so. We’re all suffering, ignoring each other’s suffering.
Some of us have become numb – so numb we don’t even care for others anymore. We’d rather look away from the pain than face it, address it, uproot it. We’d rather not think about the source of all this agonizing. We don’t care because it doesn’t matter to us; only ourselves matter to us. We no longer value community, not the way we should. It’s us against us rather than us against them. We’d rather believe that we’re safe— that safety is even attainable— if only we subscribe to the categories and binaries whiteness works to indoctrinate us into our entire lives with rigor. If we prove we’re not like “the other ones”, we can achieve something they never could. If we’re the quiet ones, the “good ones”, we’ll be safe. If we play by their rules, we’ll become them, and well, that’s just fine. So fuck everyone else. Who cares about who’s beneath us and who’s beneath them, right? They should just work as hard as the rest of us, right? No matter the obstacles they face that some of us will never even have to think about our entire lives – clearly, if they’re still on the bottom, they’re not working hard enough, right?
This cannot go on. It’s simply not true. None of us are safe. Safety is an illusion in this society. People are dying horrific deaths in schools, at concerts, at grocery stores, in the streets, in their homes. Some deaths are quick, some are slow – all are just as violent. We watch on, some even enjoying the spectacle of violence and death, though they would never admit it (or perhaps they do, anonymous on the Internet or in whispers to their friends). Some whip out their phones to record if they feel like it. Some have good intentions, intentions of getting the world to pay attention, of saying “I am with you, I see you, I stand with you”. But then the suffering goes viral, and we watch and rewatch and rewatch the same terror enacted over and over and over. We read the comments saying the violated person deserved it; it wasn’t even that bad; it’s their fault. What right did they think they had to exist as themselves like that? They should’ve just complied with the officer pinning them down, cutting off their air supply, screaming at them, pointing weapons at them, beating them, endangering them, right? They should’ve just smiled at that white woman screaming slurs at them, right? They should’ve just played the game, been a white man, or embodied one, if they had any sense at all, obviously (as if it were ever that simple).
Tell me... when you see these videos, these articles, these comments, what do you feel? What do you do? Do you scroll on, perhaps shaking your head in disgust, maybe giving a share or a “like”? Do you comment back in agreement? Do you fight with the people posting these disgusting comments, maybe try to educate them? Do you feel the person’s pain as if it’s your own? Do you look away? Do you watch it over and over? If you do feel the person’s pain as if it’s your own, what do you do next – do you compartmentalize what you just saw, what you felt? Do you donate to the cause? Do you talk about it with your friends or family, listen as they comment on what a horrible and unexpected tragedy it is, and then move on to the next topic? How are any of these options helpful? How are they any different from each other?
In the last five hundred years since white europeans stole this country from the Indigenous people and brought with them disease, genocide, chattel slavery, and brutalization under the guise of “civilization” and “humanity”, they’ve done nothing that actually benefitted any of us who aren’t rich and white. If it seemed to have benefitted some of us, it was only because it benefitted them too. Never has this government done something that did not benefit the rich, white elite in some way. The rich have gotten richer while the poor get poorer, regardless of what you look like — though the creations of race, property, and ownership guarantee some of us are disproportionately affected. White supremacy hopes we won’t notice this, that we stay divided, that we keep fighting amongst each other instead of realizing there’s strength in numbers. They don’t want us to think about how there are entire amerikan dynasties that still thrive off money made from enslaved Black people’s forced labor on plantations, that there are amerikan dynasties today thriving off prison slavery; immigrant slavery; child slavery. They don’t want us to think about how during the Reconstruction era, poor whites, Black, Hispanic/Latine, Asian, and Indigenous people began to work together; began to see value in community again. They don’t want us to think about how they saw the danger in that, that whiteness, and therefore amerika, might fall if we all came together, so in came segregation and then mass incarceration. They hope the simple yet horrifyingly deadly belief that some of us are somehow intrinsically better than others because of the color of our goddamn skin will be enough to keep us at each other’s throats. So far, their hope has proved to be very successful, indeed... All of us fight against each other for scraps instead of working together for total liberation.
We’re a society that’s become numb to the brutalization of others over five hundred years of white supremacist indoctrination. We’ve been in such a state of constant terrorization and indoctrination, everything we consume is another form of propaganda and we haven’t even noticed the ability for us to care for each other has been stolen. We must face this reality. We must confront the myth that rich white europeans have been carefully cultivating and, with our help, maintaining since they first arrived here in 1492. We ignore it and it continues. All you have to do is look around. What has gotten better in the last five years of our ignoring? The last ten? Twenty? Fifty? One hundred? Five hundred? If you really think about it... nothing. These acts of mass terror and violence only get better at disguising themselves as something else. Politicians get better at fluffing their words just so. Millionaires and billionaires pretend to be likable, to be “like us”, to understand. We allow them to. We would rather believe we can achieve something virtually unattainable one day than believe we can all live together in harmony with ourselves and the land (even though Indigenous people have done this for millennia). We get better at convincing ourselves that we’re “progressing”, becoming more “civilized”, yet there are people starving, dehydrating, suffering, dying all around us all the time. The sickest part is the very idea of “civilization” is what built this country, what’s constructed whiteness as good, pure, godly, and Blackness and Indigeneity as bad, guilty, sinful, and everything else in between an other that has no use to “modern civilization”.
We have to convince ourselves and each other to feel, to care, to see and hear other people’s thoughts, beliefs, feelings, emotions, PAIN. We cannot keep looking away, ignoring, praying for better days, and expecting that to do something, to change something. We have to call out, call in, scream from the top of our lungs, and never shut up. That’s what they would like — for us to be quiet, silent, gone; for us to think it’s one another that’s the problem rather than the system. That’s why they give us crumbs and expect us to be grateful. That’s why they keep trying to convince us to use the very systems that oppress us to liberate us. That’s why they try and convince us we’re crazy for wanting things to change now, not in some far-off distant future that works for their timeline. They hope this will be enough that we’ll stop fighting against them one day, that we give up, or that we get snuffed out. They hope we’ll get tired, that we’ll believe them when they say they’re “working on it”, that they care by words and empty promises alone. For some, this works.
For the rest of us, we’re stuck fighting a never-ending uphill battle where we have to prove the validity of ourselves and others’ very existence. We have to fight not only those at the top, but those in the middle who believe working within the system will somehow liberate those of us who have been victims of violence, mass terror, and genocide for over five hundred years. As if “peaceful protest” has ever got anything done in the past. As if they listen when we do peacefully protest. They hope we’ll believe that all these issues are actually in the past, so there’s no use in looking there because at least we’re better today. But we know this is part of the myth. Those of us who are brave enough to care, brave enough to stand up even when it feels like our very limbs will fall off, even when others are pushing us down, stomping us out, killing us... we’re brave enough to scream when it seems nobody cares enough to hear, brave in the face of brutalization, dehumanization, and terror; we know their hope, their fear, their violence, is not enough. They cannot kill us as much as they’d like to. They can only hide us; threaten us; bury us. But we rise. We fight. We grow. We continue. We will bring the better days the rest only pray for.
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ancient-healer · 1 year
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The fact that a man as extremely corrupted and completely wicked and full of hatred and evil as Trump being able to run for presidency again just continues to show that America is so deeply fucked as a nation and system. A man who committed multiple accounts of treason, who was the ring leader of a coup against our government, also a man who stole classified documents and most definitely and likely sold them to one of our adversaries. Is literally going to run for president again. I swear this country would seemingly let itself be destroyed equally by White supremacy and by a piece of human shit man who would easily sell U.S nuclear codes to Putin if he can get something out of it for himself.
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lordrakim · 6 months
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‘Moms For Liberty’ Member Complains California School Teaches ‘White People Have No Culture’
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bobby-luv · 6 months
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quotesfromall · 7 months
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Even whites who abdicate racial privilege can readily reclaim it at the moment they cease to actively reject it. The automaticity of unconscious race stereotypes and in-group favoritism make complete abdication all but impossible.
Amanda E. Lewis, What Group?
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malikismindful · 1 year
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Peace and Love, Black Family! Racism has multiple facets, and you better believe that Black people in the Divided States of AmeriKKKa are just as susceptible to all forms of racism in 2023 as we were in 1823. While all manifestations of racism are hazardous to our longevity, disabling our longterm ability to thrive as a race, I believe that INTERNAL RACISM is the worst manifestation of racism. Why? Because Black people have continued the internalization of the racist stereotypes, values, images and ideologies continually perpetuated by the White dominant society about our own racial group. Black people who live in White countries, as well as those who live in predominantly Black countries struggle with internalized racial inferiority. The internalization and display of a demeaning self-concept we have now is based on our racial classification throughout history, which speaks for itself. It's a multigenerational cycle of disempowerment and disenfranchisement that shows itself as destructive habits. Colorism, isolation, protectionism, addiction, self-doubt, self-hatred, anger, shame, ethnocentrism, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, and so on are just a few examples of how we have been programmed to further our perpetual lynching — interpersonally, institutionally, and structurally. Our biggest issue in the war on racism is our own internal racism we hold within ourselves. Our own self-hatred is what the White power structure has counted on when the police isn’t killing the next Black person in broad day! You better…GET ON CODE. STAY ON CODE.🩸💣🔫✊🏾 BLACK POWER! #blackpower #blacklove #blackman #blackwoman #empowerment #blackrevolution #raceonly #blackpeopleonly #black #revolutionary #power #truth #knowledge #blackconsciousness #blackpower #blackqueen #blackunity #blacknationalism #african #panafrican #blackpeople #blackowned #malikismindful https://www.instagram.com/p/CppqeCKOAIIzW4zIb1YjKaFyl-uvCS67btm0SU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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militantinremission · 9 months
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Is ending Affirmative Action in College Admissions a bad thing?
I wanted to monitor any fallout resulting from the SCOTUS Decision on Affirmative Action before speaking on it. Watching Mainstream Media frame the narrative has been interesting. An assortment of News Anchors, across the Major News Networks have featured a variety of individuals to give 'their' perspective; but NONE of them appear to be Indigenous Black Americans. The Black Immigrants speaking on 'Our Behalf' do not share Our Experience of Racism in AmeriKKKa, so they offer a weak argument that can be easily picked apart.
None of the Black Immigrants interviewed mentioned White Supremacy by name. They speak of a 'Black' Experience in AmeriKKKa of discrimination & bias, but not the Systemic Racism that Indigenous Black Americans face. They also seem beholden to the forces of White Supremacy. The fact that Mainstream Media spotlights This Group to discuss Affirmative Action in College Admissions, is indicative of who has been chosen by these College Admission Boards over the decades.
Affirmative Action is being presented by Mainstream Media as a 'hand out' for Minority Groups, but this is completely false. Affirmative Action was designed specifically for American Descendants Of Chattel Slavery, as a compensation for being shut out of The New Deal & The G.I. Bill. Using Benign Neglect tactics, Liberal- Progressives [intentionally] transformed Affirmative Action into 'Diversity Initiatives for Minorities'; which benefited White Women, White LGBTQ..., & Disabled Whitefolk more than the Blackfolk that it was designed to help.
If 'The History of Race Relations in America' wasn't weaponized & repackaged as Critical Race Theory, The Public would have a clear understanding of what Affirmative Action is & why it is necessary. The Argument Against Affirmative Action in College Admissions largely comes from Asian Students that were denied Admissions to Harvard & The University Of North Carolina. The Students argued that they were discriminated against because of their Race, & the preponderance of this bias leads to Asians gaining Admission at a lower percentage than Any Other Group.
On ABC's 'This Week', Sherrilyn Ifill, of Howard University Law School explained how both UNC & Harvard held separate trials on the issue of Asian Admissions. In both Cases, Asians were NOT found to be underrepresented. 'The Real Dana', w/ Judge Joe Brown pointed out that Asian Attendance at Harvard is 27.7%, while 'Afrikan- Americans' are 9.9%, & Hispanics are 12%. The only group w/ a higher Admission Rate than Asians, are 'Harvard Legacies' [Whitefolk] at 38%... Judge Joe Brown gives background on the SCOTUS Decision, by explaining that it was inevitable.
He says that Affirmative Action was created w/ the intent of bringing Future Leaders of every Community into each other's orbit. Getting these individuals familiar w/ each other on the Collegiate Level, would benefit Society moving forward. Unfortunately, a group of Black (boule) students at U.C. Berkeley (19 Dental students, 19 Medical students- back in 1971) wanted Racial Quotas established for Berkeley Medical School. According to Judge Joe Brown, the measure was passed, despite going against California State Law (& 219 Black Law Students). This action changed Affirmative Action into a Racial Quota Program that was destined to end. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor famously quipped that Affirmative Action would end after 25Yrs, but the Original Construct barely lasted 10Yrs.
Throughout the 1970s & 1980s, Affirmative Action was stripped from the hands of Indigenous Black Americans that it was created to help, & given to an ever expanding number of Minority Groups. Today, Minorities have collected so many resources from Us, that They feel comfortable enough to speak for Black America. They [arrogantly] equate Our Experience w/ their Own. Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, & Dinesh D'Souza are at the top; but there is a long list of Black Immigrants that also feel that They can speak for Us. Hint- If you can't say [Publicly] that White Supremacy is the underlying cause of Black Oppression in America, then you CANNOT speak for Us.
The SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action in College Admissions has triggered expected reactions. Chief Justice John Roberts ruled on the grounds of the Color Blind intent(?) of The U.S. Constitution, so he needs to clarify. How does he explain Indigenous Blackfolk being relegated to 3/5ths of Humanity, in a (so- called) Color Blind Society? Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, & Coney- Barrett were expected to tow the Conservative Line. Justice Kagan was expected to tow the Liberal Line, but attention remained focused on Justices Thomas, Sotomayor, & Brown- Jackson. All three were beneficiaries of Affirmative Action; at least more clearly than Justice Kagan.
Justices Sotomayor, & Brown- Jackson both dissented w/ this Ruling. Justice Sonia Sotomayor offered what she called 'the most obvious data point available to this Institution today'. The Example of 3 Supreme Court Justices of Color. All graduates of elite universities & law schools that offered race conscious Admissions Programs, who went on to have successful legal careers. Justice Ketanji Brown- Jackson offered the additional commentary of the 'let them eat cake obliviousness' of the Majority, & 'ostrich like hope' that ignoring Race will somehow make racial inequities disappear.
Justice Thomas concurred w/ Chief Justice Roberts' Ruling, emphasizing the Race Neutral Argument. He went further, singling out Justice Brown- Jackson when he said: "As she sees things, we're all inexorably trapped in a fundamentally racist society". He goes on to accuse her of labelling All Black People as victims. Clarence Thomas has been under a microscope, ever since his ominous gay marriage comments following SCOTUS' repeal of Roe vs Wade. Reports of unethical behavior by Justice Thomas & his Wife, has kept him in the spotlight.
The dumpster dive into Clarence Thomas' Life has revealed that he has extremely low regard for Affirmative Action. He blames his trouble finding work, fresh out of Yale Law School w/ being typecasted as an Affirmative Action beneficiary. It's interesting how a former 'Black Panther sympathizer' never considered Race as a factor. It's said that Thomas affixed a 10 Cent Stamp to his Yale Law Degree- claiming that thanks to Affirmative Action, that's all it's worth. Ironically, despite Clarence Thomas' (nearly obsessive) desire to prove himself on his own merits, EVERY JOB that he landed in the Law Profession, was predicated on his Race.
I'm not a fan of Ketanji Brown- Jackson, but I agree w/ her more than I agree w/ Clarence Thomas. His condescending tone towards her reminds me of Anita Hill- another Black Woman w/ a Legal Mind superior to his. Both women make Thomas look like a 'mental midget', & he KNOWS it. All of the attention that Justice Thomas is getting is jeopardizing his usefulness. White Supremacy moves in the shadows; the spotlight on the 'excess' of Justices Thomas & Alito will likely affect the future of SCOTUS. This may explain the effort to show that the Justices found consensus in most of the Cases they preside over.
From an Indigenous Black American perspective, the issue of ending Affirmative Action in College Admissions is moot. It hasn't benefited Us specifically in over 30Yrs. The fact that Asian students are the protagonists of this move is gut busting! The Asian presence on College Campuses is literally 4X their percentage of the American population. I guess they don't understand that this action will reduce their presence on College Campuses. I wasn't aware of the number of Asian students that lie & cheat to get into College; the extra scrutiny expected from the SCOTUS Ruling will certainly affect those individuals.
Some are saying that Black American students should look to HBCUs, but Indigenous Black Americans, as a group, have been unable to afford HBCU tuitions for over 30Yrs. The majority of the students on these Campuses, like the majority of Black students on Ivy League Campuses, are Black Immigrants. They are being prepped to become the Joy Reid, Roland Martin, Barack Obama, & Kamala Harris of the future. Their experience/ perspective once again, is of discrimination & bias, not Systemic Racism & White Supremacy. These are the folks that allow People Of Color/ Brownfolk to pass racist remarks w/o 'putting them in perspective'.
Affirmative Action Programs & the Diversity Initiatives that they were repackaged as, offered Minorities an enormous 'hand up' over the last 45+Yrs. Post Vietnam, Immigrants were offered what Professor Black Truth calls: 'goodies giveaways & guarantees' that Indigenous Black Americans were promised, but never received. Immigrant Enclaves began popping up, as thriving Black Communities began to decay. Is it a coincidence that many of the new store owners in Our Community were inhabitants of these Enclaves; in areas that were former Sundown Towns?
The AmeriKKKan Government is making it abundantly clear that it is Green Light Go w/ the campaign of Anti Black Racism. Using their 'Model Minority' as a proxy may surprise the newcomers, but those of Us w/ blood & bones in the soil have been foretelling how THIS will be White Supremacy's Method of Attack. Ending Affirmative Action in College Admissions will inevitably lead to the End of Affirmative Action altogether. I say good! It has been an albatross around Our Collective Neck. We get the accusations of tokenism & mediocrity, while others reaped the benefits. Let All of the minorities earn their keep- No More Free Milk from Black America! Get your own legislation, & we'll get Ours.
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Amerikkka has a lot of issues predominantly a race issue second to their health issue. Amerikkka doesn't have healthcare but rather a Sickcare. Their foods are loaded with chemicals and grown with chemicals other counties/continents banned. It's time the people started growing their own foods again rather than supporting these corporations that are corrupted. Capitalism and inflation have run rampant. The cost of living is out of control. Basic necessities shouldn't cost you a kidney, a liver, and a lung it's time the people fought back against the machine stop being a cog. Racism effects/affect Black People both mentally, physically, and spiritually it's affected our DNA years of trauma inside your DNA. It's time we better ourselves and end the generations of trauma. We must eat better, cleanse ourselves, and escape the system of White Dominance.
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callese · 8 months
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b0bthebuilder35 · 2 years
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i'm sobbing i can't believe you just called a jew a white supremacist
it’s so clear very little of you in my asks know anything about white supremacy, colonization, and whiteness as an ideology because that shit affects everyone. you could be quite literally anything and subscribe to white supremacist ideology because it’s a SYSTEM OF BELIEFS that everyone, especially in amerikkka, are indoctrinated into literally from the time we are born and have to be actively unlearned and challenged. so yea. I did call them a white supremacist bc they’re subscribing to white supremacist beliefs. I don’t care if they’re Jewish, that means nothing to me if you’re actively engaging in white supremacist ideology.
some of you seriously just need to google critical race theory before you respond lmfao this society is so sad
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ancient-healer · 2 years
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king-shango-the-great · 7 months
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Yo, I'm vexed at this. You hear me?
VEXED!!🤬
Listen, I'm not American, & I am new to Cali. But the places I've lived in the States (NY, Chicago, etc ) there weren't any Samoans or Pacific Islanders (that I was aware of). I only learned about them thru TV, especially in Wrestling.
I thought they were cool, especially after I moved out to Cali. They are very family oriented (which I appreciate), they practice & respect their culture (which is very important to me), & they always seem respectful whenever I see them in public, especially whenever I interact with them.
But the most important thing for me, is that they don't have a history of oppressing or exploiting Black people, the way EVERY other group/nationality/race does.
Which makes it all the more weird that they would teach their people these ideas about us.
So I did a little more research after watching this vid, & found this...
This is why its important to learn different languages. It frustrates me to no end, that Black people in Amerikkka only know English, & that they feel some sort of misguided pride in knowing the Massuh's tongue over others, when other groups here know at least 2 (sometimes 3) languages. Our ignorance is our disadvantage, but I digress...
So basically, this is their N-word for us.
As someone who has traveled & lived in several countries, I've heard variations of the N-word all my life... from Hei-Qui (Chinese), to Zinji (Arabic), to Negro/Negao (Spanish/Portugese), to Kaffir (South African, to Habasi (Hindu).
But now it looks like I'll be adding Meauli (Samoan) to my list.
Not only does this make me vexed, it makes me sad. Granted, I am not a POC'ist in the slightest, because I know that's a myth. But I did think that, as previously stated, Samoans & Blacks were, in not on a level of solidarity, then at least not on bad terms.
So as a Black man that is rather large & very distinctive looking, now I have to wonder if I've been called a Meauli without even knowing it 🤔
I've always known that the whole concept of POC solidarity has been a myth, but I did foolishly allow myself to believe that Pacific Islanders were the exception or the outlier.
Looks like John Henrik Clarke was right (not that I doubted him), when he said "we have no friends". 😒
Subsequently, this is all the more reason I need to leave Amerikkka. Not only does this place foster this way of thinking, but I truly don't think different groups are meant to live amongst each other. Never in the history of not only humanity, but of nature itself, have we seen large groups of races or species cohabitate peacefully, especially not for very long.
Thus, Amerikkka is a failed experiment in that regard.
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