Systemic racism has long history

Editor:

After the Civil War ended slavery in America, Democrats quickly passed Jim Crow laws and founded the KKK in 1865. They wanted to keep former slaves segregated as Republicans were working on Reconstruction.

Congressional Democrats wrote the Declaration of Constitutional Principles in 1956 (massive resistance) in opposition to federal court orders requiring integration. They were supremacists unwilling to give up their white privilege but changed their tactics with the 1960s civil rights movements.

Race relations improved but hit the gutter when Obama came along and reignited flames of division.

Remember the Black Harvard professor struggling to get into his house, a neighbor called the cops, Obama said the police “acted stupidly.”

Obama said when Trayvon Martin was killed, “If I had a son he’d look like Trayvon.”

When Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Obama said “young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement,” and many more incidents.

Recently Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told Minneapolis rioters “we need to get more confrontational, make sure they know we mean business.”

Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) prayed, “Thank you, George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice.”

Even Joe Biden chirped in on the Chauvin trial, “Evidence is overwhelming, praying for the right verdict.”

Riots, looting and arson have caused untold damage and deaths in Democrat-run cities, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, Atlanta, Milwaukee and others. It’s like Democrats are keeping Black people cranked up squawking “systemic racism” just to prove they were right years ago.

Leland Graber

Wayland

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