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Is America a Racist Country?
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Even posing the question that challenges whether or not America is a racist country is in itself quite the racist stance, when you consider the violent series of events that transpired in the quest to uphold the statutes of white supremacy, and permanently destabilize the survivability of natives, criminally tossed out of the land they were born to inherit.
Likewise, the venom of white evangelism made its way to Black and Brown territories with the mission statement of British imperialism, that still dictates the manner in which invaluable resources are dispersed to the western world, while victimized originators of those riches have to continuously suffer punishment from God Almighty, who gave blessings to white invaders, brandishing bibles.
Some days ago, President Joe Biden delivered his long-awaited address to the nation, before a joint session of of Congress, and considering the horrific year we’ve endured in the middle of a global pandemic that has so far resulted in a death count of more than 570K with new cases popping up on a daily basis, the Comforter-in-Chief managed to uplift themes of emerging optimism.
The standard rebuttal by a chosen representative from the other side of the aisle is usually smothered in theatrics, featuring itemized reasons why the party officially in charge of The White House needs to be assigned a move out date, when the next election cycle comes around.
For this episode, the honors were bestowed on none other than the newly-minted darling of the GOP, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who spent the time allotted to his scheduled response to the president’s prolific speech, brazenly spewing out harmful rhetoric that accurately validates the white power mantra of his ailing party.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was so moved by Tim Scott’s disgraceful performance as a Black man who has willfully sold his soul to the deceit of whiteness that he publicly anointed his Black protege as the “future of the Republican…