A great many presidential campaigns have centered on racist policies: slavery, war on Native Americans, Manifest Destiny, civil rights, welfare, white supremacy, America first, and immigration. Even the “best” presidents, like Lincoln & Obama, who tried to get their fellow Americans to fight it, had to campaign for votes of and compromise with racists.
Suggestion:
Silence is cowardice. Ignoring racism doesn’t make it go away. We need to pay attention, make moral judgements, actively support solutions and vote. Elections have consequences. Racism also has economic consequences—no one group is a self-sustaining economic island.
Purveyors of racism in the media must be denounced. Racist business decisions must be opposed. Politicians aiding racist policies must be defeated. Racist laws must be overturned. All this sounds hard, but having your heart and in your daily actions in the right place makes it easier.
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