“Black Americans were a founding population … Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding.””That particular birth defect makes it hard for us to confront it, hard for us to talk about it, and hard for us to realize that it has continuing relevance for who we are today.”
Those are the words of Condoleezza Rice, who, regardless of her political affiliations, articulates the reality of race perfectly. Read more of Condoleezza’s commentary in an article in the Washington Times.
This video, a conservative commentator’s response, shows how deeply rooted white supremacy is in the culture of the U.S. which is exactly the problem.