Is More Racism the Cure for Racism?
Harris Nomination Ramps Up GOP “Black Attack”
20th Century Americana Reboot
It’s just a couple weeks at the most since Joe Biden resigned and Harris stepped and already the full-on racism blows up. It’s the Jaws blockbuster — just when you thought it was safe to go back into politics. But could the cure for racism be more racism?
It’s hard to imagine the answer is Yes. But almost all racism — or white racist rants and attacks against blacks — occurred in the vacuum of whiteness. Sure, some pro-civil whites agitated after the Civil War, but once 1900 hit, that abolitionist drive slowed down a lot, and the president’s investigation in slavery he opened in 1903 was closed around 1906 or so after it just couldn’t be stopped and the USDOJ. That Federal Department started to protect black Civil rights, somehow after 1908 reversed, and turned into one that hates those rights and was weaponized against the very people they were created to protect. During the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, their monitoring of civil rights was a monitoring against black civil rights leaders, not a protecting of them. The white vacuum of apathy grew in response.
How we got to today was through an erosion of democracy over the last one hundred and twenty years. We have to look to the spreading out of the South of…