Tim Knowles
Sep 1, 2018 · 1 min read

The crimes and abuses you mentioned were perpetrated but the dominate political elites of the times and while they were “white people” I don’t feel it is accurate or informative to refer to the abusers as “white people.”

It was Southern Aristocrats and their minions both north and south who perpetrated slavery. It was evil expansionist who pushed out the native Americans, it was the war time panic stirred up by the country’s leadership that lead to the Japanese Internments. While all those groups and institutions were predominantly “White People” the country was mostly “White People.” Attack the root of the problem. The Southern Aristocrats have been removed from power but their racist minions remain. The leaders of the expansionist era have been replaced with new robber barons. The bigoted forces inside government have morphed.

You need to target your ire more precisely. The problem is not “White People” are not the problem. Bigoted groups and institutions are the problem attack bigotry not “White People.”

TEK

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