so a racist is a "person of non-color"

who hates and fears a person of color. Right?

we as human beings

I feel have reached certain ecological environmental 'tipping points'. Social? We shall see in the coming months, more than likely.

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what is the deal with this continuing racist behavior of whites

and that this behavior is still in place and widespread, nationwide, today August 29, 2016? I awoke this morning after a restless night of dreams, nightmares really. Nightmares of a time when PoC were being forced onto trains and sent to "relocation camps" to be reeducated in proper etiquette toward 'other' races and eventual 'employment' back into the agricultural fields, literally, and super large pig and chicken farms. This segment of a night of troubled sleep awoke me very early this morning.

I was in a restaurant yesterday and overheard a white couple, middle aged, talking about how far the negroes have come. I turned around and asked, quietly, far from where? Slavery, segregationist laws that denied civil and voting rights, ghettos? Far from where? People around us got quiet. The ones I was talking to said not a word. I was was finished with my meal. Left a tip and went to the register to pay. I quietly said, PoC never should have had far to come from, I left. I am so sick of this fucking arrogant and demeaning mentality of many americans.

Don't get me wrong, there are some progressive and liberal whites out here. Some are even friends, yet who put this onus of responsibilty on their shoulders in the first goddamn place to be the supreme race? God, fate, darwin's natural selection? American racism is an example of a systemic and institutional sickness that so far, is not being cured. It is an infection, in this day of the trumpenfuher that is widespread and virulently infectious. How can I state this fact? Generations of precedent. Each generation of racists train a new generation of Dylan Roofs, trump supporters and new klan members. After years of thought on the subject of racism and racial warfare for dominance I have come to the conclusion that somehow racial memory of long ago events are embedded in our DNA and in those prone to fear 'others' is a prompt to them to try to dominate all 'others' Something like trump is agitating now.

Long ago African Empire was exemplified by Timbuktu. At it's height 25000 students from all over the civilized world attended the University. This fact alone dispels any myth of inferiority among PoC in the world at that time, yet fear made many try to diminish this acheivement by perpetrating the "they are all ignorant savages myth". Modern Tarzan movies pushed that into the minds of many. Am I wrong? It was for this reason that African Empire was not allowed to flourish and
that African Empire was destroyed by envious Dutch, Arab, Portuguese, British and Asians with a host of others. The new americas involvement in that dastardly trade in slaves is etched in the memory of many, black and white, Union and Confederate. Yes to you people looking to spread the blame, intra tribal/nation warfare did supply some of the slaves for trade, but a vast majority came from those excursions/incursions by the many nationalities mentioned into the interior that provided the bodies from the many destroyed villages and towns that helped destroy African Empire. Gunpowder was the deciding factor

On to the present. This election is about racial and gender dominance. This is no small wonder given the rise of open racism and state sanctioned murder and execution of men, women and children of color since the ascension of Barack Hussein Obama as POTUS. No small wonder at all. Happy election season.
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I will never give up

yet, to keep having these Trump and Alex Jones types pop up on MSM and Internet every four years since my first vote in the '72' election IS frustrating. I would never shame patriots who fought and died so that we still have our ability to have our voices heard at the ballot box. I NEVER SAID I FEEL INFERIOR TO ANYONE. My high ground position of equality bestowed upon me by the current POTUS is inviolate. The current slime called the RW is something I try to avoid stepping in yet there is so much of their excreta laying around that just the stink of them keeps me shaking my head in wonderment that americans can believe and give backing to obvious racists, homophobic, mysogynistc pigs. THIS shows me what is just under the surface veneer of 'freedoms' we still enjoy in more or less degrees depanding on race and financial status.

Your 5 main points are well taken and appreciated because they are grounded in truth.

point 1-- you point to the DNC's new found courage as exhibited this year. I put forth that we more than likely would not have the resurgence of the racism and bigotry we are experiencing IF in the last 7+ years that same DNC had shown some political muscle and had our current POTUS'S back. THEY DID NOT ever speak out on the obvious racist treatment of BHO by thec Senate and congressional RW and our own 'bluedogs!!!!'. . Where was Wasserman then these last 7+ years in regard to that fact........I know that american politics creates strange bedfellows but the last 7+ years those bedfellows had a romp at the expense of BHO. Only his willpower got things accomplished over the racist RW (both Party's) of this country's political system. I hope you are right that our Party leadership is wiser now than in the last 7+ years. Yet I don't trust the leadership of our Party nor will I again only and until I see positive pushback continuing by our Party leader HRC. I will vote for HRC no matter come hell or high water, don't misunderstand me.

point 2--true and that will be our saving grace this election.

point 3--I learned long ago never to assume anything. Especially when it comes to american politics and money. ALEC proved this to be true. All I know is that the MSM WILL make this seem like a horse race when in fact, it is not. They will do this just because of advertising dollars and the RW that owns and operates the MSM. Low information voters, of which there are many millionss totally depend on MSM for all of their information. That's information dumbed down to appeal to this sub stata of american citizenry.

point 4--a lot of voters get their information from the internet today, true and that includes the dumbed down low information voters who stick to just information an Alec Jones disseminates or that hate radio disseminates, of which there are many. I just hope that decent people will be able to first vote, all the RW ID laws are making that difficult in many areas and that gerrymandering won't hurt us too bad either, something I am not comfortable believing our Party can overcome. The MSM will never bury Trumpfuhrer until he loses and then those same media outlets will go looking for their next money maker political star.

point 5--I don't doubt that HRC will destroy trump in any debate on any subject, yet do not forget who usually moderates these events, the chuck todd types who are capable of being able to make the good look bad and the bad palatable. My only hope this election is that a majority of women are sick of this mysogynistic buffoon and will come out in overwhelming numbers in favor of HRC. I imagine the last 7+ years of attacks on reproductive rights of women as well as civil rights attacks should be cause enough to bring out the many, many women who have to prove that the white male dominated RW is an idea that needs to be relegated to the dustbin of history.

The only way I am is very angry at a system that is still racist, mysogynistic, homophobic and just mean in this 21st century. Depressed? No! Despairing? No! I know that when I get sick of this shit, I have a place to retire to that will allow me my peace in my so called 'golden years'. What is frustrating is the young people I come into contact with, on a major university campus, who are all the words I have used to describe the RW. November will be a major turning point in the test of american choice of leadership. We shall see. I will be dropping by me local Democratic Party office today to put my body and mind where it can do the most I know to do. Happy election season

if you say so

I am just not so sure. HRC has the women's vote I presume, but with the "let it bleed" media looking for $$$$$, the truth does not matter anymore, as has been always in this country, only ratings count. This sub standard 'media' we have providing our 'news' is a shameful reflection of our substandard culture driven by hate of all typesthat has been here ALWAYS but is being refreshed and revitalized by the like of Trump and his surrogates like Lepage of Maine ect.. Even with being a retiree, I am out in this society everyday, yes everyday for between 4 hours to longer, doing a public service job. Americans are angry, spoiled with a mentality that is narcissistic, privileged and selfish, these days. This election season is creating more angry, violent idiots that I even saw with Nixon and Atwaters machinations of the electorate in my first voting election.

thank you for your information

on slavery-serfdom, Europe and other places. FYI I do not watch any "if it bleeds" MSM. Just don't because of who, for the most part, are able to slant the news to be important to those that wish to remain fearful and uninformed. My knowleddge comes from years of private study that started in college. One such resource I have relied upon, 'The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of Race from 4500 BC to 2000 CE. is among many I still refer too. Lerone Bennett has a series that was/is important in my understanding of american slavery and trade and that I still rely upon.

I understand human nature in regard to how warfare and dominance has played a prominent role in the fits and start progress of the human race in both intra race and inter race warfares of dominance and greed. Therein lies my basis for knowing who and what has been responsible for the many millenia's of hate, warfare and destruction of whole civilizations and cultures over the history of human existence. All have been responsible, no race is without taint.

Allies come and go. Those that stay, in my experience, are not driven by any real loyalty to the AA, just by an ethical and principled standard that all should try to attain to achieve a real discernable movement toward equality that won't takre another 6000 years to attain. Those who leave never were allies. Period.

I appreciate this discourse. I have a need to understand the viewpoint of those like you because it helps me to feel there is a glimmer of hope that truly good people can change this world in positive ways, one day.

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its just that all the women screaming with hate etched in their faces at his rallies give me some concern. I just hope enough of us liberals and progrssive can sink the hateful ship of the trumpenfuhrer.

I know that half of american voters ARE conservative VOTERS

that is the major reason for racism STILL being so entrenched and embedded in this society and its culture since the first slave was freed. When the first slave ship, The Good ship Jesus arrived in Jamestown, a British 700 ton, no one at that time had an inkling of what horror, degredation, murder andd rape that would last for centuries right up to our modern times it held in its hellish hold.. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

I am 68 years old and have been voting since 1972. I have since watched in disdain as this country has slowly drifted toward the extreme RW conservative abyss that it is looking into now with this election choice that the conservatives have nominated as their candidate. What mockery, what insult to all black and white patriots who have died fighting for equality for all in this society. Minorities in this country should not still in 2016 be fighting to vote. Young blacks should not have to deal with fear every time he or she sees a police officer as they walk or drive in our 'free' society. From Trayvon Martin to Tamir Rice and Sandra Bland the reason for this fear is murderously clear and it is despicable in its stinking hypocrisy.

Minorities are americans ready to give their life for this country. I am a man who has always been classified by the early american apartheid system as a minority volunteered for Vietnam asnd the Army. Misguided loyalty but true and served honorably, ETA as Sgt E-5 after 2 years 7 months active duty, 13 months in Vietnam. I came home and was still classified as negro, a word with negative connotation and worse. The worse word still used frequently in this society to prejudge a certain type of citizen of america. Don't misunderstand me, religion, fear and the hate fear creates has kept racist white people hateful and always potentially murderous.

It's the conservatives shooting and killing young, unarmed AA men, women and children. Not progressives or liberals. Conservatives have made themselves a hated group in my experience with them. You can intimate that I am racist or bigoted because I see the hate of bigotry and racism when some whites interact with AA. I see and hear it every day in the job I do. Whites try to bait me with talk of section 8 housing and robberies that are perpetrated by AA. I never take the bait except to say whites do the same thing. Rob, kill, rape and destroy whole cultures and countries.

I don't hate all white peopler, just the ones that hate me based on their superficial and ignorant criteria, my skin color. Yes I DO return hate for hate just as I do for love and kindness. Turn the other cheek in not in my vocabulary and never will be. American liberal and non racist conservatives, if such an animal exists among whites, need to GROW UP and tell their racist counterparts to cease and desist their ignorant and antiquated ideal that white skin is supreme and start working, TRUELY, with all citizens of this nation to finally make it the great nation it has the potenial of being.

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don't these closet david dukes know that we know what's going on with their hate. They just don't care and see the poorAND minorites as expendable. Same thing going on where I live, all R&D and other work in the far suburbs and no public transportation for people lucky enough to be hired. It's a fucking shame we have all these racists in leadership positions voted in by a racist base that walks among us silently smirking inside knowing that they are trying to destroy "those people".