@ghasley you bring up the 3/5 compromise and the revisionist historians point to it as evidence of racism. Clearly it is you that has a poor grasp of history and add civics to the list. How is the House of Representatives assigned members? By population. The southern slave states wished to have full representation based on their population including slaves but of course slaves were not allowed to vote against their own oppression. Non slave states didn't want to endow that kind of power to southern states so the compromise negated that through lowering the population count of southern states. It is easily discerned if you read the writings of the times rather than the agenda driven clap trap of liberal professors and professional victimologist.
If the United States was in fact systemically racist there would be laws on the books to disadvantage minorities and keep them from participating in any form of government, employment, education, protection by the law, protections granted by the Constitution, etc. In fact it is the exact opposite! There are laws on the books that ban discrimination based on... race! We are, and have been the most diverse and accepting nation on the face of the earth. People are free to come here from anywhere (preferably legally) and persue the American Dream. A great majority of them succeed. When you tell a man he cannot escape his circumstances due to imaginary suppression he will not escape his circumstances. When you tell a man anything is possible because it is he can.
You can describe it any way you like it but the Democrat Party was the author of Jim Crow. They praise to this day Margret Sanger who founded Planned Parenthood as a way to control the black population who she referred to as weeds as well as the mentally impaired. Hillary Clinton adored Robert Byrd, a (cough) former KKK Grand Clugle and BJ Clinton's mentor Wm. Fulbright was an avowed segragetionist.
Racial tensions are beneficial to those who wish to overthrow our form of government, you can't get people to be with you if they are happy. Be happy and know that we as a nation can become the melting pot of the past instead of the salad bowl people try to make us believe we are.
