(02-10-2023, 10:12 PM)copycat Wrote:

(02-10-2023, 11:38 AM)mikesez Wrote: There are exceptions that prove the rule.
Most people agree that the shaker communities intentionally and fully integrated the black people that wished to join.  However these societies were also intentionally isolated from mainstream American society.
If you were a white person who wanted to live a life where you always treated black people with complete inclusion and respect, you had to isolate yourself from the endemic racism of other white folks.  Whereas, if you were a white person who wanted to practice a minority religion, or no religion, that was usually fine and you could live in mainstream society that way.  Racism was therefore a stronger tradition than most other aspects of culture you could think of.

Again showing more about you than anyone else.  You have latched on to the progressive ideal that all whites want to put brown people under their control and treat them as second class humans.  Get out of your office, turn off MSNBC, go out into the actual world and realize every race, creed and religion has a lot more in common than they do differences.  The people that I know and hang out with whether white, black, brown, yellow or red do not care about the color of our skins, our religions nor where we came from but about the content of our character.  If only you over educated nincompoops would realize this is where the majority of all people live and quit subjecting us to your biases we be in a much better place.