The Deadly Scourge of White Supremacy
No doubt, racism still exists. It is the foundation of our nation’s history. It has not gone away and being “colorblind” is no solution as the system remains racist no matter what an individual does or thinks. Racism must be fought everywhere and every place. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Milam, William Travis and the rest of these white supremacist scumbags put hatred into the minds of millions never to be removed this side of eternity. Racism can have a shattering effect on the lives of those whose skin color or culture does not match the prevailing white supremacist view of others. The victims of racism can suffer physically, as in slavery, the days of Jim Crow, and police abuse. Victims of white supremacy can also suffer psychological damage, in addition to impacts modern day working lives, financial status, and social relations. Not too much was good about the good old days unless you were a white supremacist in this country. Even now this hatred and lies are at work at developing fake histories to divide the population. These fake histories and narratives go from making some Mexican Americans and East Indians think they are white to lying about Alamo heroes that were little more than racist slave owners.
The Disease of the 21st Century
According to researchers, “Racism is a system of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks, which is what we call “race,” that unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources.” The disease of the 21st Century is white supremacy. Racism is still here and operating out of the policies and thoughts. Every slave owner should have been executed, but they were allowed to escape under a false “reconciliation” scheme after the Civil War. After Lincoln was murdered the former slave owning class found ways to keep the ugly scourge of racism alive. Slavery was an act of war and slave owners should have tried, convicted and executed. This was not going to happen since white supremacy was hammered into the minds of millions to keep the idea that being White was a given privilege. Additionally, there is very little justice in this rich man’s legal system that is also poisoned by white supremacy. European racists enslaved and murdered millions of people, yet they want us to forget about that all the while they are pumping up their racist historical idols like Jefferson, Sam Houston, and others.
Damaging Health Effects
Racism can lead to damaging effect on mental health, distress, PTSD, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. It also humiliates, and dehumanizes because it attacks the heart of self-ethnic identity and self-worth. Racism can impact on a victim, their family and the community, especially when the response of the established leaders, is poor. Kinda like Biden avoiding the George Floyd Act and Trump bellowing racism all over the place. When politicians and leaders fail to intervene or act when racism rears its ugly head it can only worsen the impact of psychological or physical damage on the victim. They end up causing the victims to feel helpless and excluded, increasing social distrust. When racists are given a free ride, it encourages the normalization of racist behaviors and makes them feel free to engage in violent acts of police brutality or wanton racist terror. By doing nothing, this allows racism is be accepted and supported by society already seething with white supremacist thought inherited from the past but never gone.
