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In reply to the discussion: Tim Walz Demands Answers After University Student Detained by ICE [View all]BumRushDaShow
(168,461 posts)and MY point is that "history is repeating" NOW. The last election is simply a repeat of a typical "backlash".
You ignore the past and it will return because you refuse to recognize the signs.
And as a note - if you believe that during a period when black Americans were LEGALLY UNABLE TO VOTE (something STILL happening NOW with more and more draconian laws being enacted nationwide) or unable to buy homes in certain areas, or were unable to even eat in certain restaurants, swim at certain public swimming pools, or even be buried in "white cemeteries", let alone drink at certain water fountains, etc., was somehow still "democracy", but now suddenly in 2025, "democracy is ending", is just ludicrous.
Your dismissal of Jim Crow, which WAS "legal" (dejure) discrimination, is telling.
There are whole demographics who have YET to experience any "democracy" throughout this country's history and to continue to ignore this fact has been the point of getting this history taught in the schools, which was happening until we started experiencing the erasure that is underway.
Jim crow was ANTI-DEMOCRACY, and obviously slavery was as well.
And as another historic note about this country's "modern" colonizing behavior - both Hawai'i and Alaska were not somehow part of the 13 original colonies. The Kingdom of Hawai'i was overthrown by a corporate head and much later made a state just a few years before our past President Obama was born there (which itself caused the manufactured head explosions demanding a "long form birth certificate" from him). And as has recently been discussed in the news, Alaska was "purchased" from Russia after the Civil War. We STILL have "colonies" - all those territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. VI., and the Mariana Islands, much of it the result of the Spanish-American War.
THAT is what is feeding this "territory lust" by the lunatic at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
This is the problem that the majority demographic needs to solve and sending out minorities as cannon fodder indicates that there are still those who are not ready to deal with the underlying problem.
There is a term that is used by the racists about people like Biden, who made it possible for both Obama and Harris to reach the high offices that they did. I.e., they deem him "a NIGGER LOVER". And THAT is why they continue to pummel Biden unmercifully into a pulp to this day. People like Biden would be lynched right alongside a black victim.
There is NOTHING MORE that Obama/Harris/Biden can say that will EVER be listened to. They said what they had to say and it was rejected.