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Yes, America Is Racist
Allow me to say this in a way your conservative friends understand
Tim Scott vs. Black people
On April 28, 2021, President Joe Biden gave a speech stating that White supremacy is the number one threat to America. On his 99th day in office, the president said this:
A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us. A cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear. And now a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
Tim Scott, the nation’s only Black Republican U.S. senator, immediately provided his racism-defense rebuttal by saying this: “Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.”
When you look at the details, these two points are pretty striking. First, you have a septuagenarian White man explicitly calling out White supremacy by name, describing it as an element of domestic terrorism (which it is). Then you have a 55-year-old Black man who seems batshit afraid of even doing that, trying to argue that America isn’t a racist country (even though it is). The whole scene looked like…
