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malaise

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20. Institutional racism remains one of America's biggest problems

Reply to Zolorp (Reply #10)

Tue Feb 18, 2020, 06:54 AM

Feb 2020

Until the society repairs it's brains re non-white people, the country will remain divided.
Until the Western view of the white man as superior is crushed, we're all doomed.

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A truth about America from Shelby Foote [View all] Zolorp Feb 2020 OP

Jon Stewart one time talked about 'a country that had just fought a civil applegrove Feb 2020 #1

I think the big problem about the Civil War is that the South never accepted the loss... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #2

I don't think it ever ended. djg21 Feb 2020 #7

Yes scarytomcat Feb 2020 #21

Yes. And reconstruction was poorly executed. Buckeyeblue Feb 2020 #8

It would have gone much better had Lincoln not been assassinated whathehell Feb 2020 #16

THIS malaise Feb 2020 #19

And we know which nation Foote would fight for tishaLA Feb 2020 #3

That does not alter the fact, to understand the character of America, you must understand that war. Zolorp Feb 2020 #4

That's your opinion, some have a different one Sewa Feb 2020 #15

I never thought I'd see the day DU would tishaLA Feb 2020 #17

From the beginning to potentially the end Dan Feb 2020 #5

More than any other period of American History, the Civil War defines White Privilege in America. Zolorp Feb 2020 #6

This would be an interesting discussion.... Dan Feb 2020 #9

There are other answers to reparations other than cash payments Zolorp Feb 2020 #10

Maybe a simple question is Dan Feb 2020 #11

Honestly, as an old white man, it is priceless Zolorp Feb 2020 #13

I wouldn't want you to give up your privileges, Dan Feb 2020 #14

Yeah, so is Male Privilege whathehell Feb 2020 #18

Institutional racism remains one of America's biggest problems malaise Feb 2020 #20

Since African countries have also suffered from colonialism Ex Lurker Feb 2020 #12