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Systemic racism in the USA: Are whites "guiltier" if they had slavery in their past?
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<blockquote data-quote="Miles" data-source="post: 77567397" data-attributes="member: 103363"><p>I'd say neither are guilty, or maybe both are equally guilty depending on how one looks at it, but those are murky waters. Southern Democrats were historically more likely to support racial segregation than Northern Republicans, for instance, but there are lots of Racist Republicans and non-racist (or anti-racist) Democrats out there. I have no way of knowing which party has more racists in the classical sense than the other.</p><p></p><p>Political party membership often has less to do with race than positions on things like unions, the electoral college, whether the state government or the national government should have more influence, and what programs our tax dollars are spent on. The extend to which those things carry racial implications is a matter of opinion.</p><p></p><p>A Southern family could have voted Democrat for the past 150 years and might now be considered progressive for it. Likewise, a Northern family could have voted Republican for the past 150 years and now be considered regressive for it. Maybe both families were more concerned with things like infrastructure, foreign wars, or environmental concerns. How people vote won't necessarily point to the answers you're looking for. It's better to get a sense of where their hearts and minds are than going by whether their great-great-great grandparents had or didn't have slaves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Miles, post: 77567397, member: 103363"] I'd say neither are guilty, or maybe both are equally guilty depending on how one looks at it, but those are murky waters. Southern Democrats were historically more likely to support racial segregation than Northern Republicans, for instance, but there are lots of Racist Republicans and non-racist (or anti-racist) Democrats out there. I have no way of knowing which party has more racists in the classical sense than the other. Political party membership often has less to do with race than positions on things like unions, the electoral college, whether the state government or the national government should have more influence, and what programs our tax dollars are spent on. The extend to which those things carry racial implications is a matter of opinion. A Southern family could have voted Democrat for the past 150 years and might now be considered progressive for it. Likewise, a Northern family could have voted Republican for the past 150 years and now be considered regressive for it. Maybe both families were more concerned with things like infrastructure, foreign wars, or environmental concerns. How people vote won't necessarily point to the answers you're looking for. It's better to get a sense of where their hearts and minds are than going by whether their great-great-great grandparents had or didn't have slaves. [/QUOTE]
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