The group appears to suggest slavery and Jim Crow were “positive achievements, like unity and the overall improvement of our country”
“Moms for Liberty” seeks to ban MLK Jr. book- Tennessee Ed. Dept refuses
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The group appears to suggest slavery and Jim Crow were “positive achievements, like unity and the overall improvement of our country”
As Canadians (most of us, anyways), I don't think that we can truly fathom the depths to which racism is embedded in American society. Examples like this just begin to scratch the surface. Shocking.
And the Canadians who support these types of initiatives are equally loathsome.
Moms for Liberty. Well I guess liberty does not include free speech. Does anyone remember irony?
Like I said, by not living there, we don't realize the extent and intensity of it there. But just because we may be better is not necessarily saying a lot.
I have been saying that for years! After 20 years traveling all over the US and also having some family down in Texas I can confirm that us canadian we do not understand how incredibly racist the USA are.
And even the Americans do not realize how racist they are. Especially the upper white middle to rich class.
And yet when I moved to the USA from oz I was asked by more than one American "I heard Australians are racist". From the yanks.
We are WAY less racist that the States.
My favourite US story is from 20 years ago. I dropped by a model railroad store in Chicago. It was midweek afternoon and the store was empty except for the 2 middle-aged "hobby guys" who ran it. Within 5 minutes, we'd moved from "What scale layout do you have?" to "Here in Chicago, we have a n--------- problem."
They then told me about that "problem" for 20 minutes before moving on to the Bears and how they would suck the coming season.
This would NOT happen in Canada.
Shhhhh. Don't tell our American friends there is racism. First there will be denials and then you will be cancelled.
Moms for irony - I like that
...This is somewhat true, not so much for the first Americans. They had a democratic matriarchy, among other tribal systems, many generations before 1492. Much as I hate to agree with Commie Chinese, the colonists in all the Americas were guilty of genocide - and not just cultural...
We most certainly are not anywhere near as racist as thr united states. We have no Arkansas Oklahoma Mississippi Virginia or any backwoods Southern states. Alberta may be the most American like province but I have never been there so I cannot comment. I never experienced racism anywhere close to the southern states. Not that long ago black people were not allowed in certain towns in the south.this was in my lifetime and I'm not that old. Nothing like this ever happened in Canada to minorities other than residential schools for the natives
