America's Racism Outed
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it.
Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is a liar, all his temptations are carried on by his calling evil good, and good evil, and promising freedom in sin.
He is the author of all lies, whom liars resemble and obey, with whom all liars shall have their portion forever. The special lusts of the devil are spiritual wickedness, the lusts of the mind, and corrupt reasoning, pride and envy, wrath and malice, enmity to good, and enticing others to evil. By the truth, here understand the revealed will of Yahuwah as to the salvation of men by Yahushua Ha’ Mashiah, the truth Yahushua Ha’ Mashiah was now preaching, and which the Jews opposed.
It has been widely known that it is better to: 'Judge a man by his actions, not his words.' No one has proven the blunt truth of this in the United States like President Donald Trump has and it’s sending a wave of betrayal washing across the country.
The truth is, Trump, who likes to brag that he’s “like, really smart” and received an MBA from Wharton School of Finance, was caught in a wicked lie. As it turns out, the commander-in-chief never finished his MBA. In fact, according to the Associated Press (AP), he received a bachelor of science in economics and hadn’t actually graduated with an MBA at all. Not from Wharton. Not from any school.
President Donald Trump's claim that Russian meddling in the 2016 election is a “hoax” has been named his biggest lie.
Despite bipartisan evidence to the contrary, Mr Trump has continued to suggest that investigations into the Kremlin’s interference in last year’s presidential race are fake news. By making the claim, Mr Trump has contradicted top US intelligence officials, who have concluded that Russia interfered in the election to help Mr Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and ‘80s. More recently, his political rise was built on promulgating the lie that the nation’s first black president was born in Kenya. He then launched his campaign with a speech describing Mexicans as rapists.
The media often falls back on euphemisms when describing Trump’s comments about race, racially loaded, racially charged, racially tinged, racially sensitive. And Trump himself has claimed that he is “the least racist person.” But here’s the truth, Donald Trump is a racist. He talks about and treats people differently based on their race. He has done so for years, and he is still doing so.
Racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. The US claims to be a very multicultural country. Nevertheless, minority groups in the US are unfortunately often subject to discrimination, ranging from racist comments to violent hate crimes.
Racism and discrimination are prevalent throughout the US, although they can be felt most strongly in conservative regions of the country like the South and Midwest, as well as in small towns and rural areas. The groups that are most often discriminated against are African Americans, Hispanics, and Muslims, but smaller minority groups, such as Jews, other immigrant groups, and the LGBT community, bear their share of intolerance as well.
Although the United States has come a long way since the days of slavery, and huge steps were made towards granting equal rights on the basis of race in the 1960s, racism is still a very pressing problem in the US today. Sometimes it is blatant and open, but often it can be more subtle, or even built into the system, as seen by racial profiling by law enforcement officers and other government officials, and the near impossibility for some groups, especially African Americans, to break the cycle of poverty.
Discriminatory policies in schools lead to the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline.” Due to zero-tolerance policies in schools, disadvantaged black youths quickly end up being pushed out of school and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems, instead of being given a chance and receiving counselling within the school system.
Although America is by nature a country of immigrants, US anti-immigrant sentiment is deeply rooted in American history and continues to the present day. Many white Americans of European, usually Protestant, descent, like to claim that theirs is the one true “American” culture. The reality, of course, paints the picture of a culture that is anything but homogenous. Native Americans lived on the land that is now the United States first, millions of Africans were brought to the US by force to be held in slavery, and people have been immigrating to the US from all around the world, not just western Europe, for centuries.
Xenophobia has risen over the past years as the topic of illegal immigration has come to the forefront of American politics. The nation is divided on what to do about the millions of illegal immigrants currently living on US soil. Anti-immigration groups patrol the border, making sure no more prospective immigrants cross over, and racial profiling is used to question the legal status of anyone “foreign-looking”. Especially with the instability of the US economy in recent years, some Americans fear that their jobs are being given away to immigrants.
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Islamophobia has increased in the US, fueled by ignorance and the faulty belief that all Muslims are fundamentalists. Muslims, especially those who could be identified as such by their dress or practices, were frequent victims of assaults and attacks, mosques were vandalized, and they were generally made to feel unwelcome. The number of these incidents decreased over the following years, but many people still harbour general suspicion of Muslims and the Muslim faith.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed horror at the racist marches that roiled Charlottesville, Virginia. “It is racist, far-right violence, and clear, forceful action must be taken against it, regardless of where in the world it happens,” she said on German television.
She might have added that such a thing wouldn’t have happened in today’s Germany because it’s illegal.
While America protects the right of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, and other hate groups to hold public rallies and express their views openly, Germany has strict laws banning Nazi symbols and what’s called Volksverhetzung, incitement of the people, or hate speech. Like more than a dozen European countries, Germany also has a law criminalizing Holocaust denial.
And while Confederate statues can be found in many American cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line, there are no statues of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels gracing public squares in Berlin, let alone Nazi flags or other Nazi art. The public Nazi imagery was long ago destroyed, and swastikas were long since knocked off the walls of Nazi-era buildings. The only Nazi imagery you’ll find is in exhibits devoted to understanding the horror of the period.
The former Gestapo headquarters complex was destroyed in the 1950s. The land it once stood on now houses the Topography of Terror, a memorial and museum made of glass and steel filled with panels that narrate the brutal history of the Nazi regime. And on streets across the country, there are normal brass cobblestones called stolpersteine (literally “stumbling blocks”), which tell passersby brief biographical details of each man, woman, or child who was deported from that spot, that house, or that block.
The Civil War may have ended more than 150 years ago, but America is still dealing with how to reconcile, and memorialize, that dark period of its history. And while freedom of speech, even vile, racist speech, is an inviolate part of the US Constitution’s First Amendment, Germany’s commitment to facing its own dark past led that country to believe a mix of education and limiting free speech, was the only way to ensure the past would remain in the past.
Half of Americans, 50%, think white and black people have an equal chance of getting ahead in today’s society. This is little changed from 46% of U.S. residents who expressed this view in a 1997 CBS News/New York Times survey. Forty-one percent, compared to 43% two decades ago, say white people have a better chance at advancing. Only 4% think black people have the edge in getting ahead, similar to 5% in the 1997 survey.
Again, opinions differ by race. While a majority of white Americans, 54%, say both black and white residents have an equal chance of advancing, nearly two-thirds of African Americans, 65%, and half of Latinos, 50%, report white people have the advantage to move ahead in today’s society.
Americans perceive racism to be a bigger issue in American society than sexism. 54% of U.S. residents consider the nation to be more racist than sexist. 24% think America is more sexist than racist. One in ten, 10%, say the United States is neither racist nor sexist, and 12% are unsure. Both men, 48%, and women, 61%, think the country is more racist, but interestingly, men, 28%, are more likely than women, 19%, to consider it to be more sexist.
The poll asked Americans: do President Donald Trump’s comments about people of colour such as Muslims, immigrants, or African Americans make it more or less acceptable for people to make racist comments? A plurality, 46%, says it makes it more acceptable, including 63% of African Americans and 53% of Latinos. 36% of Americans think the president’s remarks make it less acceptable. Nearly one in five, 18%, are unsure.
Democrats, 67%, and independents, 49%, are more likely than Republicans, 20%, to believe President Trump’s comments about people of colour make it more acceptable to make racist comments. 50% of Republicans say his statements make it less acceptable.
More than half of Americans, 51%, think the anti-immigration movement is simply about securing the country’s borders while 35% believe it is really an anti-people of colour movement. 14% are unsure. Again, Democrats, 63%, African Americans, 57%, and Latinos, 46%, are more likely than Republicans, 5%, and white residents, 29%, to think the anti-immigration movement is about race.
Comments
Post a Comment