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We have been sitting on a powder keg for quite some time and it has burst," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.
She said that after her cops had arrested hundreds of protesters during the race riots in her city.
She's right of course. Racism has "been there" for quite a while. Right from the colonial times in America actually, then through the Civil War, and to this very day.
Even a rough skim through history shows that since the time of the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery, and then the 14th Amendment that gave the freed slaves the right to life, freedom, property, and due process, the question "what shall we do with the blacks" has remained high on America's agenda. It remains there, even after America has had its first black President, its first black commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and its first black (and female!) Secretary of national security.
While there's no excuse for racism, there's a reason for its persistence. One is the hypocrisy of multiculturalism in its current form, a concept that has completely failed at both sides of the Atlantic. It's been presented as a fake facade that's been cracking ever more frequently as of late, displaying the festering ulcers of the past behind. Equal rights and integration turn out to be fiction that even the official stats and daily mainstream news outlets now struggle to deny.
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