trump and the Republicans are not exclusively responsible for doing this, because trump and the Republicans didn’t invent the lie called “race”. It was here for centuries before trump and the Republicans ever came along. So, getting rid of trump and the Republicans will come nowhere close to solving this age-old problem. Sooner or later we on the Left are going to have to stop telling ourselves that lie.
Scientifically, there has never, ever been any such genetic distinction as race. And we have always known (even in the late 1600s, when the first “legal” distinction was first being manipulatively created in the courts of the American Colonies) that there was no such thing. Therefore every, single, solitary one of the billions upon billions of acts of racialized violence — no matter how big, no matter how supposedly small and/or invisible — that have occurred over the last five centuries have been, without exception, committed on the basis of a known scientific untruth. All on the basis of one, single, never-ending, unjustifiable, hollow-at-it’s-foundational-core EXCUSE — never a reason! Meaning, not once in more than 500 years has there literally ever been even one single actual REASON to inflict racial violence. Again, literally...not once! That is an unfathomably powerful truth! But, even more...if there has never even once been an actual legitimate scientific reason to inflict violence predicated on supposed race, then that also means that every single one of those accumulated five centuries of racist acts have been predicated on something deeper, darker and even more terrifying! Fundamentally inherent sadism (without reason)...alone!
Every single act of systematic white supremacist violence that has ever happened in the last five centuries has been predicated on that fundamental sadism! Now, here’s the other real scary bombshell! Therefore, every day that Progressives themselves continue to tacitly allow and/or willfully ignore — versus very consciously fight against — any and all acts of racism, they are themselves in fact tacitly participating in perpetuating that foundational systematic fraud. Because again, the two are inexorably inseparable.
Race has always, from it’s very inception, been a lie. And straddling the fence (or simply pretending to not know or understand) about the (literally without exception) sadistic violence that has always been hermetically attached to that fundamentally fraudulent concept has therefore never been a legitimate moral stance either.
Race is, and has always been, a lie. And either you are consciously fighting against the (always) sadistic violence that has always been joined at the hip to that foundational lie, or you’re tacitly allowing the systematic continuance of that original lie to inflict further harm. Morally, there is no middle of the road! Meaning every single instance of, “Yeah, but what about...”, uttered far too often on this site, is predicated on fundamental hypocrisy too.
The hypocrisy of the continued supposed existence of race is now out of control, and decimating everyone’s quality of life at an increasingly accelerating rate...black and white...and everyone in between! And the hardcore truth is that the fraudulent five century old system underlying it all can only be dismantled by the folks who created it. (By them finally getting honest about WHY they created it.) So...do we really have to descend all the way into incomprehensible and historically unprecedented amounts of pestilence, homelessness and starvation before we’ll admit the root of what’s killing us?