3. TIL of Republican Congress member Thaddeus Steven who wanted to exile former sla...

TIL of Republican Congress member Thaddeus Steven who wanted to exile former slave owners and redistribute their land among slaves and farmers

I said prove that America is a country full of white supremacy that is holding back other races. Because as far as I can see, America has made more minorities prosper than any other nation in the world. I know this from experience as my mother was an immigrant from Korea.

I'm just sick and tired of everyone saying that America is some terrible place that is filled with white supremacy when it just simply isn't.

What America has done for you and your family, and everyone else is a absolutely beautiful thing and I can't stand seeing people not knowing what they are talking about claiming otherwise.

Yes, racism exists. Just not on the scale you people seem to think, it is inter-personal racism.

There isn't this secret organization keeping all the minorities down, if that were true you wouldn't have seen so many prosper despite all the apparent systematic racism.

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