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Judging people based solely on their skin color is evil.

Agreed. However, you are confusing two issues, in exactly the way that the anti-American left wants you to - you are assuming that culture = race and race = culture. Slavery was wrong, but not because slavery in the USA consisted of white people enslaving black people, but because slavery is wrong REGARDLESS OF THE RACE OF THE SLAVES. Sure, American slaves were black, but if American slaves had been white also (as indentured servants were, essentially) then we wouldn't be arguing about racism, would we? We'd be arguing about slavery as an institution.

Undoubtedly, most white people in the slave days thought that black people were inferior, but in those days, all people thought people of other races were inferior. It was the way of the world. The Chinese thought round eyes were inferior. The Japanese thought Europeans were barbarians. Blacks would have killed or enslaved whites if they could. Heck, even the British thought the French were inferior, and they were essentially the same race! Only in the 20th century, when it suited the anti-Americans and the anti-westerners, did "racism" become such an unthinkable sin, as a way to instill antipathy toward their own culture in impressionable western youngsters.

The point is that judgments in this day and age are not about race - they are about culture, even while the Left claims they are about race. So, if we examine the nature of certain cultures, such as the homicidal culture of Muslims, or the criminal culture of American blacks, or the narco-terrorist, socialist culture of Mexicans (and obviously these simplifications don't encompass the whole of these cultures), we find things to be alarmed about, but the Left stops that sort of rational thinking short by crying "racism" so that we are afraid to address these realities openly.

In essence, the fear of a black man is not because of his black skin, but because he is part of a culture that glorifies violent, criminal behavior, yet the evil Left would have you believe that it is because of skin color.

Excellent post. I understand your point. My point was simply that America once had separate treatment under the law based on race (we still do, it’s called affirmative action). That’s wrong. At the same time, you’re right.

Let’s consider immigration. It’s not racist of me to not want to import a bunch of poorly educated people who are dependent on government. It’s also not racist of me to oppose illegal immigration because I cherish the rule of law. However, the left would call me a racist, because illegal immigrants are predominately people of color.