Believing the Best About A Racist Country

RACISM IN AMERICA has been and is so widespread and persistent that it can scarcely be described as anything other than a "core american value", like it or not. It can certainly be argued that racism should not be a core American value, that there is no place for it in America, and so forth, but but arguing that it doesn't currently exist, isn't systemic and deeply imbedded arguing that it isn't nor ever has been an american "core value" is, shall we say, quite dubious. A core value is defined as a belief that is prominent in a culture, and has been for a long time. In America, racism fills the bill. let us not be led into the temptation of believing that all American traditions, all American tendencies and core values, are healthy and good, merely because we love our country and which to believe the best about it. Believing the truth is better than believing the best, at least from the standpoint of seeking progress and improvement. the most recent in our periodic upsurges in American racism was inspired, inarguably, the the election of Barack Hussein Obama, and therefore its Obama's fault, the right wing argument goes, its Obama's fault for having the audacity to address the issues. By bringing p racism, Obama created racism. Much has been made of the media coverage of America's current white supremacist fad, inspired by Donald J. Trump as well as B. H. Obama. The complaint is that by covering these extremist right wing groups frequently and thoroughly, the media has, wittingly or otherwise, given the white supremacist movement assistance, in the form of free publicity, and has failed to adequately condemn it. well, maybe so. On the other hand, it can be argued that we must shine the light of public scrutiny on extremism, and let the public, we the American people, do the right thing, do what's appropriate, which might be to ridicule and shun white supremacism out of existence.