Racist to the Core

PEOPLE ARE FLOORED, but pretend not to be, when I tell them that racism, contrary to being ancient and inherent in human nature, is actually a fairly modern invention, there having been no mention of it prior to the middle of the fifteenth century. A new and modern way of thinking, this racist business. Americans are also floored, and usually don't bother to try to pretend otherwise, when I further assert that our beloved United States of America is and long has been the most racist nation on the planet. Americans don't like hearing that. Americans don't like hearing a lot, all of it true. We prefer our fantasies in America, of which we have many. Among them, that ours is a "Christian nation", that racism is a thing of teh past, and that government regulation impedes business. In America, we have many fantasies and misconceptions. When the greedy immoral vultures who landed at Jamestown in 1607 finally realized by 1619 that they were not going to be able to turn native Americans into slaves, kill them, nor steal their allegedly huge stockpiles of gold and silver, they decided to purchase slaves. So much for America's founding on Christian values, until you remember that the Bible, including Jesus, condones slavery. Just a week or two ago we "celebrated" the four hundredth anniversary of slavery in America, and which it can be argued still exists; we are all slaves to our American cultural racism. Slavery was from the beginning justified by Christians as reflecting Christian values, which indeed it does. In 1790, mere months after the United States in its current incarnation came into being, congress passed ans George Washington signed into law a bill which required all naturalized American citizens to be white. The law was finally repealed in 1954. That, one must admit, is pure cultural racism, full blown. In other words, a core cultural value, a core American value. our constitution actually defines black people as three fifths of a human being. Now, that's racist. In my entire life I have never heard an American suggest that this part of the constitution should be removed. By luring, intentionally or otherwise, the white supremacist community put into the open, Trump has, if inadvertently, fully exposed the fact of enduring, pervasive racism in America, and its alarming extent, even while Trump and his supporters foolishly deny it. Racists, of course, always deny being racist. The right wing racist community is but one of Trump's core constituencies. Among others are Christian nationalists, white people who want to turn the United States into a Christian government, mostly conservative evangelical republicans, who are every bit as dangerous as the white supremacists, fascists, confederate flaggers. What they have in common, other than Trump's disease, is that they must all, for the good of the nation and the world, be voted out of power.