Comments by "yapdog" (@yapdog) on "Law professor says Clarence Thomas' vote in Trump case could set off alarm bells" video.
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@antoniosaxon8605 This isn't a zero-sum game. It's always about both. What you're saying, in essence, is that's like saying slavery wasn't about race but about money; if that were the case, where were all of the whites chained, raped, lynched, forced to work, beaten, dehumanized, etc?
Throughout our history, the grifters have used Black folks as a tool to carry out their deeds. Virtually every platform/talking point the Republicans have is rooted in this. Welfare? AA? Social programs? Gerrymandering? Policing? On and on and on. It all comes back to the core wound of this country: racism/slavery.
You may be a skeptic, but know that Thomas Jefferson, an enslaver, prophetically believed slavery to the greatest threat to the future survival of America. He's not the only founder to believe as such. Not only did many of them not enslave people, they campaigned against slavery. Unfortunately, you only hear about the ones who enslaved.
So, when someone like me (Black) points out the fact that virtually every ill of American life is rooted in racism, don't dismiss it out of hand. Only by understanding the root causes of our problems can we ever have a chance of fixing them.
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