Racism and racists is/are made and not born! And learned at their mother's knee via example!

And proven when you see little children who haven't learned to hate yet, playing together as kids will do, if left to play together!

After all, all difference regardless of skin colour, is cultural and learned from our forebears/parents/custodians!

If we are to judge others? Then it should not be on the shade, tan or tone of your skin but the content of your character!

Nelson Mandela, a premier role model we can learn plenty from, but nothing at all from white supremacists/reverse apartheid or colour code activism/victim game/role-playing and the intended guilt trips for other colour code, intended for as yet unborn, recipients!

And kowtowing to this activist group to just win a few brownie points/votes, helps nobody in the long run!

Some who accuse others of racism, need to first look in the mirror, if only to see the real racist in the room? And just how much of their endless, never ever good enough rhetoric, is just more of the same humbug they use to get this or that preferential, taxpayer-funded outcome/power play? As if it were a right!

When the whites invaded this country, weighed down in clanking iron chains. The only real mistake they made was to leave the remnant indigenous population here but should have done to them what was done to the Irish or the Scots in the infamous land clearances etc. Export them halfway around the world and outlaw their native tongue!

As indentured servants for the English aristocracy! At least then the rest of us wouldn't have to tolerate the endless humbug and guilt trips that a not ours

Moreover, there's not a black way or a white way, just a right way!
Alan B.

I have witnessed the making of racism by racists. Well meaning, decent people abused for doing their job which was to mollycoddle the racists !
The outcome was inevitable.

The sky is falling! The sky is Falling!

Speaking of race and religion in the US why not check out an essay featured on the Religion Dispatches website by Dianne Stewart titled We've Finally Begun to Confront White Christian Nationalism: But What about Its ("religious") Source Text.

And the book by Robert P Jones titled White Too Long The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.

And at a more secular level these truth-telling essays featured on the Counterpunch website
Critical Race Theory in Practice by John O'Kane
Right-Wing Twisting of CRT by Richard C Gross
Can Critical Race Theory Reframe American History Successfully by Nick Licata

Politically Correct Racism by Robert Koehler

And a related essay by David Swanson titled Remember To Forget The Alamo in which he deconstructs the wall-to-wall (essentially racist) lies about the "heroic" Davy Crockett and the Alamo.
As a young boy here in Australia I used to sing Davy, Davy Crockett king of the Wild Crockett and wear a Davy Crockett hat too. It truth Crockett was a life long two-bit scumbag.

Dara is quite fond of calling the thousands (even millions)of people associated with quite legitimate political movements of green politics,
Critical Race Theory, and most probably Critical Studies altogether as being "religious" movements.

Which is quite ironic because she herself, via her association with the IPA is essentially a "religious" missionary too - the now world dominant
"gospel/religion" of "free" market capitalism.

This book describes the "religious" nature of what she is associated with:
http://herinst.orgsbeder/Books/missionaries.html
Also check out the books Suiting Themselves, Selling The Work Ethic, and This Little Kiddy went To Market re how the "gospel" of the mythological "free" market is marketed.

Of course there is no such thing as a "free" market, and there never has been. Check out the two truth-telling books by John Perkins The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Thanks Dara Macdonald for talking about this contentious topic. Hopefully it will create greater understanding at least among those that aren't in the so called critical race theory camp.

That deserves a literary Award as well as a humanitarian Award !
Now, where are the Paul1405's to debunk fact ?

Wars are won with money.

Dan

Indy,

From the one you refer to as the "Concrete Jungle Bunny" there is nothing to debunk as you put it. A conservative trying to minimise the collective responabilities for the injustices of Americas past and present. No one can deny systemic racisms is part of American culture and has been for hundreds of years.

In Australia we have people such as yourself who propagate racism through a negative attitude, stereotyping and a blind shift of responsibility onto the victim and away from the perpetrator, the "nothing to see here attitude". Racism is highlighted by the weekly racist taunts from fans and players at professional football matches. Some AFL boofhead just received a 6 week suspension for racial vilification of another player, yet again.

Candice Owens is kind enough offer any Black American a free first class ticket to anywhere in their ancestral home in Africa if they give up their US citizenship.

nothing to debunk
Paul1405,
You're simply incapable of not lying & twisting words are you ? No-one I know of disputes the shameful history. But, you're one of those who debunks modern history which is not shameful. On the contrary, it is laden with good will, assistance to the needy & compensation al round.
I'm talking about the time of my own history & yours. Our generation has done more than any other to compensate for the wrongs of the past sadly, you're not one of us. You prefer to keep stirring & lying to keep this "Gap" open, to prevent it from closing at all your racist & hateful resources you can muster.
Tell me, are you ok with people of no or very little Australian indigenous heritage to call themselves indigenous ?