Racism isn't just about Jim Crow laws, shutting school doors, and lynchings any more.
It's about not being able to be in the presence of a black person without that person's race being an overwhelming factor in how you treat them.
It's about the belief that a minority cannot thrive unless cared for and guided by an elite.
It's about thinking minorities are out of line unless they cleave tightly to your political views. Keeping them in their place, so to speak. Black conservatives are not looked on with kindness.
This is symptomatic of Democrats more than Republicans. You don't have to scratch too many liberals too deeply to reveal a nasty streak of paternalism, or sometimes even a detached contempt, for minorities. We'll leave things like religious bigotry out of it for now.
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- Go ahead, it's ok to call Republicans racists.
- To clarify
- Soft racism
- re: To clarify
- It ain't all magnolias and mint-julips
- Well said. (n/t)
- To clarify