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The Party of Racism

There’s a political party that’s just obsessed with race, all their power is built on it, it’s rather a disgrace. It started centuries ago defending slavery, campaigning for long decades to keep blacks as property. And when some other people said, “Maybe this isn’t right,” this party declared civil war, began a bitter fight that lasted four horrific years, six hundred thousand dead, and tore the whole country apart, left out fields stained in red. Then, when forced to admit defeat, they thought up a new plan, Jim crow would crush the now-free blacks, and call them ‘boy,’ not man, suppress all their natural rights send men in white to scare, make folks bow to their Klu Klux Klan, to get elected there. They then used their power to block all anti-lynching laws, segregated the bureaucracy to advance their sick cause. When even this wasn’t enough to restrain southern blacks, the party chose to filibuster the damn Civil Rights Act! And when this technique didn’t work they got insidious, they created the welfare state, said, “You should vote for us.” Bought black souls off with big hand-outs, no men needed, cash for free! Destroyed the urban work ethic and the black family. Now children grow up without dads and fall to gang-banging, people are told they can’t succeed, there is no use in trying. Somehow they have done more damage then even slavery could, this party knows it’s crushing souls, and that it does them good. As long as blacks are miserable, as long as they’re kept poor, this party can just buy their votes with the temptation of more. Worse still, this party has declared skin is ‘identity,’ that they can decide, by your flesh, what a person believes. One is ‘oppressor,’ one is ‘oppressed,’ one other half-way stuck, they see no individuals, don’t believe in that stuff. They have their nice categories, insist you must belong, if your resist they call you slurs, get your fired…that’s just wrong. There’s a party of racism, there’s no contesting that. You ask what is this party named? We call them Democrats.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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