MOST BLACKS BELIEVE THAT RACISM CAN ONLY APPLY TO THEM
AND THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO BE RACIST
Much of the bro ha ha over Whoopi Goldberg believing that the holocaust was not based on racism is not unusual in today's view and obsession with racism. To many, racism is wholly a problem in the United States and can only be practiced by white people concerning black people.
Fact is, racism is as old as human existence and so is slavery. Slavery still exist today. In all tribal warfare the winners got to make slaves of the losers, it was probably the rule more than the exception. The exception was often out right genocide of the losers. Particularly if they had no value from work or sale.
As of 2018 the countries with the most slaves were India ( 8 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 Million), Nigeria (1.39 million) Indonesia (1.22 million) and the Congo (1 million) In fact some estimate that there are as many as 40 million people enslaved in one form another in the world today, the most at any time in human history.
Not all slavery is based on racism, some of it is a way to repay their debts, some is human sex trafficking that is still big business in today's U.S. inner cities. Some is still the old fashioned just because they can.
I suspect that most African slaves were the losers in tribal conflicts and when it became evident that there was a market for slaves, they likely found more enemies to enslave and sell.
Organized government endorsed slavery in the 20th and 21st century has largely been the domain of totalitarian socialist governments, who view the individual as just an consumable asset to be used by the state. This is the end result of all totalitarian governments.
As for racism, it seems suspicion of people who look different or have different cultures seems to be part of human nature. It becomes a problem in a free society when people intentionally treat such others in a different way than they would treat those who are of the same race or culture.
It seems that there is a prevalence of thought today that black people can never be racist. They can only be the victims of racism. How would we explain the overt racism of Farrakhan and his followers who are the most outspoken purveyors of anti-semitism in this country. Or the obvious racist attacks on Asians by African Americans. Ask the Asian population, if you would really like to know the truth. Or the tenets of "Critical race theory" that believes that all white people are racist and that all the causes of misfortune of the black population is because of white racism. This whole theory is racist in that it labels a whole race, the white race, as racist.
While of course there is a history of racism in this country, as in every country in the world, it has become a political weapon that has likely set race relations back decades, if not forever. Whoopie just spoke what she believes, and what she has been taught by the purveyors of victimhood. Whoopie is a person who has experienced much success in this racist world and has now stepped into it by her ability to be heard, because of her success.
We often hear the comment that the U.S. needs a conversation about race. It is much more of a lecture from activists to further divide the country. A conversation would allow for differences of opinion. No differences of opinion are allowed and are usually dismissed as racist.
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