This is a question that needs to be asked….and it is a perfectly timed question.

Let me preface why I am posting this…..I grew up in Spain and at 15 we moved back to the States and Mississippi to be accurate that was 1962 so I fell into the world segregation and racism and I have been living here since those days……so I have seen the awfulness of segregation, the civil rights movement and so on and during all these ‘changes’ one thing has remained the same…..the racism and the hatred of people of color….so the MAGA movement fit into these people’s beliefs perfectly.

I do not do generalities but since I have lived through the changes in the South I feel this is a question that needs and answer…..so I turn to a social historian….

This is not a question of hatred. It is a question of history.

More honestly: can America, and much of the Western world, function without the economic, political, and psychological advantages created by white supremacy?

For more than 400 years, the United States has built wealth, power, and institutional control through systems rooted in racial exclusion. From stolen Indigenous land to enslaved African labor, from redlining to mass incarceration, from the Tuskegee experiment to discriminatory lending, racism was not a side effect of American history—it was a central business model.

The Bible warns in Proverbs 22:16: “Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase… will come to poverty.” America must confront whether its prosperity was built on justice—or theft.

The numbers tell the story.

According to Pew Research Center, the median wealth of Black households remains dramatically below that of white households, while lower-income white households had about 21 times the wealth of lower-income Black households in 2021. This is not accidental. It is the long shadow of policy: slavery without reparations, Jim Crow without restoration, and civil rights without economic repair.

Forty acres and a mule never came.

But redlining did.

Mass incarceration did.

Predatory policing did.

Environmental poisoning of Black neighborhoods did.

HBCUs had to be created because Black people were excluded from predominantly white institutions. Black Wall Streets were built because Black people were denied equal access to white economic systems. Welfare policies often destabilized Black families while industrial policies extracted labor and left fragile infrastructure behind.

And globally, the same pattern exists.

https://eurweb.com/can-white-people-survive-without-racism

This is a situation that use to lie beneath the surface where people at least attempted to hide their disdain for people of color but since 2008 that disdain has grown into the hatred….yes I said hatred….that lives today.

I know we can say that no one is racism free for we all have a twinge of it in some fashion….but what is happening today is not a twinge it is full blown overt racism sprinkled with hatred.

I think the dude that wrote the paper made some excellent points…..meet the man ….

Edmond W. Davis is an American social historian, international speaker, and Amazon #1 bestselling author. He is a global authority on the Tuskegee Airmen and serves as the founder and executive director of the National HBCU Black Wall Street Career Fest. A native of Philadelphia, PA, and current resident of Little Rock, AR, Davis is committed to cultural empowerment and educational equity through storytelling and civic engagement.

What do you think of his piece?

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