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This is very true, and non excusable! Historically, that was the norm. Just like how they left women out of that particular phrase because they too were less than equal. However, thanks to the hard work, dedication, and lives shed, the northern army in the civil war (45.4% white Americans) defeated the south and freed the blacks from slavery. Roughly 9.5% of the army was African Americans either free born or ex slave. The remaining 45.1% of the army consisted of Irish, French, Indian, Canadian, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, English, Polish, Jewish, Italian, Mexican, Finnish, Danish, and various other ethnicities. The oppression didn't end there but it was a big domino they tipped which led us all to freedom ultimately. So if you want to go back in time with your comments, go back in time with the facts. There were white "politicians" in that era who knew it was wrong and gave their lives for defending that stance. Like everything else in life, it's like cooking... You can't throw ingredients in a pan and voila, a casserole. It takes time, patience, dedication and knowledge with the right application. I'm not saying we forget the events of history, buy only that we remember them, and only remember them. If you constantly look behind you, you will never see what is in front of you. If we, a singular nation of people, keep dividing and reverting to old ways of thinking, what do you think will be the outcome? History is a lesson, and if you dwell in it, it will surely repeat. If girls always get hurt by assholes, but that's all they date, will they not continue to get hurt? It is only when you change your perspective, angle or way of thinking that you can progress. You cannot jump over a wall if you keep cutting your legs off. This is what SOME "white politicians" want, and if we continue this course of thought, dwelling in history, it is surely what they will get, a divided nation once again. I will repeat something I said not too long ago, when your have seen the evils of war and what we are capable of doing to one another first hand, it is the last thing you wish for. If we keep dividing ourselves with these uneducated thoughts to be "cool" or more like sheep, war is what you will get. And this is something many of you think is glorious, but when it happens, you will wish you were a leader instead of a follower. We all have these fantasies of what it would be like and what we would do because of movies... It is nothing like the movies. The closest I've been to the feeling of war, without going back to war, was the movie Fury. So watch that, and try to put yourself in his shoes watching his friends die with no help, and nothing you can do. If you can successfully feel what they portrayed, you will know it is nothing you should welcome. What kind of world are we or you creating for our / your children? We need to unite again! This is the UNITED states, not the the DIVIDED states. Wake up people.