Racism is first and foremost about power. White people are in power—politically, economically and culturally. Black people are not. That’s why we have words like “N****” but no word remotely to describe white people that carries the same resonance. No word says “You and your entire peoples are worthless, lazy, and…

Holy shit. So you actually think that you just made a valid historical comparison? Because there was slavery that involved white Europeans and not Americans? What exactly does that have to do with the United States? Those slaves were not made into a permanent underclass, nor was it in any way equivalent to the chattel…

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…