Myths/racism is over - Revision history

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 Racism has, if anything, gotten worse since Obama's election in 2008. Where racists apparently once felt compelled to keep their sentiments to themselves or among those of like mind, Obama's candidacy and eventual victory seems to have inspired them to share their idiocy much more openly.
 ===Evidence===
 * '''2021-08-05''' [https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbwyv/black-realtor-called-911-cops-guns-drawn Cops Pulled Their Guns on a Black Realtor Showing a Home to Black Clients]
 * '''2020-09-10''' [https://www.theroot.com/a-judge-asked-harvard-to-find-out-why-so-many-black-peo-1845017462 A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism]

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 Racism has, if anything, gotten worse since Obama's election in 2008. Where racists apparently once felt compelled to keep their sentiments to themselves or among those of like mind, Obama's candidacy and eventual victory seems to have inspired them to share their idiocy much more openly.
 ===Evidence===
 * '''2020-09-10''' [https://www.theroot.com/a-judge-asked-harvard-to-find-out-why-so-many-black-peo-1845017462 A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism]
 * '''2020-07-13''' [https://abc11.com/durham-house-tagged-with-kkk-racist-phrases/6315007/ Durham house tagged with 'KKK,' racist phrases] "n---- lovers / KKK / come buy this house"

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 {{hdr/myth|Racism is no longer a problem in the United States.}}
 ==Myth==
-The election of a black man (Barack Obama) to the highest office in the land proves that racism is no longer a problem, that we are now living in a "post-racial America".
+Racism &ndash; especially systemic racism &ndash; is no longer a problem, and we are now living in a "post-racial America". The election of a black man (Barack Obama) to the highest office in the land is often cited as clinching proof of this.
 ===Examples===
 * '''2020-10-08''' "We shouldn't be talking about this. We shouldn't even be discussing this. I don't believe that there is racial discrimination going on. I absolutely don't." ... "But to sit here and tell and lie to people and say that that we are in a horrible racist situation in this country. I'd have to ask, how did Obama get to where he is? How did these professional sports ever get to where they are. There's nobody standing in the way of anything in this country." &ndash; Minnesota Senator {{l/wp|Bill Ingebrigtsen}} (R)<ref name=mngop />
 * '''2019-06-19''' [https://secondnexus.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-reparations-african-american-president/ Mitch McConnell Says: 'We've Tried to Deal with Our Original Sin of Slavery... We’ve Elected an African American President.']

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 The election of a black man (Barack Obama) to the highest office in the land proves that racism is no longer a problem, that we are now living in a "post-racial America".
 ===Examples===
-* '''2020-10-08''' ""We shouldn't be talking about this. We shouldn't even be discussing this. I don't believe that there is racial discrimination going on. I absolutely don't." &ndash; Minnesota Senator {{l/wp|Bill Ingebrigtsen}} (R)
+* '''2020-10-08''' "We shouldn't be talking about this. We shouldn't even be discussing this. I don't believe that there is racial discrimination going on. I absolutely don't." ... "But to sit here and tell and lie to people and say that that we are in a horrible racist situation in this country. I'd have to ask, how did Obama get to where he is? How did these professional sports ever get to where they are. There's nobody standing in the way of anything in this country." &ndash; Minnesota Senator {{l/wp|Bill Ingebrigtsen}} (R)<ref name=mngop />
 * '''2019-06-19''' [https://secondnexus.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-reparations-african-american-president/ Mitch McConnell Says: 'We've Tried to Deal with Our Original Sin of Slavery... We’ve Elected an African American President.']
 * '''2015-06-24''' [http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/is-the-problem-racism-or-demonic-evil/ Is the problem 'racism' – or demonic evil?] by Pat Boone ([[WorldNetDaily]], via [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/06/27/pat-boone-can-read-minds-not-use-his-very-well/ FtB]) "As the president who came to office, a black man promising to bring people together, a man ideally suited for that job since you were born both black and white, you had a God-given chance to actually proclaim and demonstrate that racial divides and prejudice had greatly diminished and that our society was truly becoming colorblind. [...] you have continued to bring up and confess America’s past record of racial prejudice and indicate we “still have issues to resolve” pertaining to race – as if your very presence as twice-elected president of the United States doesn’t proclaim loud and clear that we as a people have largely, though not completely, put to rest any image of America as an ongoing "racist" nation. ''We are not!''" -- apparently ''talking'' about racism is equivalent to nurturing it (though at least he admits that we haven't ''completely'' overcome racism)
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 ==Footnotes==
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 The election of a black man (Barack Obama) to the highest office in the land proves that racism is no longer a problem, that we are now living in a "post-racial America".
 ===Examples===
 * '''2019-06-19''' [https://secondnexus.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-reparations-african-american-president/ Mitch McConnell Says: 'We've Tried to Deal with Our Original Sin of Slavery... We’ve Elected an African American President.']
 * '''2015-06-24''' [http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/is-the-problem-racism-or-demonic-evil/ Is the problem 'racism' – or demonic evil?] by Pat Boone ([[WorldNetDaily]], via [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/06/27/pat-boone-can-read-minds-not-use-his-very-well/ FtB]) "As the president who came to office, a black man promising to bring people together, a man ideally suited for that job since you were born both black and white, you had a God-given chance to actually proclaim and demonstrate that racial divides and prejudice had greatly diminished and that our society was truly becoming colorblind. [...] you have continued to bring up and confess America’s past record of racial prejudice and indicate we “still have issues to resolve” pertaining to race – as if your very presence as twice-elected president of the United States doesn’t proclaim loud and clear that we as a people have largely, though not completely, put to rest any image of America as an ongoing "racist" nation. ''We are not!''" -- apparently ''talking'' about racism is equivalent to nurturing it (though at least he admits that we haven't ''completely'' overcome racism)
 * '''2015-01-31''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/01/31/erik-rushs-intentional-ignorance/ Erik Rush's Intentional Ignorance]: includes both the claim and some counterevidence
 ==Reality==
 Racism has, if anything, gotten worse since Obama's election in 2008. Where racists apparently once felt compelled to keep their sentiments to themselves or among those of like mind, Obama's candidacy and eventual victory seems to have inspired them to share their idiocy much more openly.

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 * '''2020-07-13''' [https://abc11.com/durham-house-tagged-with-kkk-racist-phrases/6315007/ Durham house tagged with 'KKK,' racist phrases] "n---- lovers / KKK / come buy this house"
 * '''2020-05-08''' [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/ The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying]
-* '''2019-10-04''' [https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-family-secret-you-didnt-know-as-a-kid-but-now-as-an-adult-you-do-and-when-you-look-back-it-explains-a-lot-of-things/answer/Marcia-Wilcox-1 Quora: What is a family secret you didn't know as a kid, but now as an adult you do and when you look back it explains a lot of things?] "Edit #2: To all the people who insist my extended family of origin will welcome DNA tests proving we are mixed, please understand that I know my family much better than you do. [...] I am not about to open a can of worms that will further alienate me from my family of conservative Trump-ies. So any further comments suggesting I do so will be ignored.]
+* '''2019-10-04''' [https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-family-secret-you-didnt-know-as-a-kid-but-now-as-an-adult-you-do-and-when-you-look-back-it-explains-a-lot-of-things/answer/Marcia-Wilcox-1 Quora: What is a family secret you didn't know as a kid, but now as an adult you do and when you look back it explains a lot of things?] "Edit #2: To all the people who insist my extended family of origin will welcome DNA tests proving we are mixed, please understand that I know my family much better than you do. [...] I am not about to open a can of worms that will further alienate me from my family of conservative Trump-ies. So any further comments suggesting I do so will be ignored."
 * '''2019-06-28''' [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/28/i-could-have-shot-you-in-front-of-your-fucking-kids-how-cops-dehumanize-black-people 'I could have shot you in front of your fucking kids': how cops dehumanize black people] ([https://vulpine.club/@rey/102355791017900889 h/t]): "Why would anyone treat someone this way? Research gives a grim answer: some police literally think of blacks as subhuman"
 * the many groups which pop up in support of the police any time a police officer wrongly kills a dark-skinned person