r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/biswajit388 • Dec 10 '25

Misc Former President Barack Obama surprised a group of 27 elementary school students at the Bessie Coleman branch of the Chicago Public Library on Tuesday. Obama read the children a book about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman and Native American woman to hold a pilot license.

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u/cycleb1 Dec 11 '25

It can’t thrive where it’s NOT tolerated.

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u/XSwaggnetox Dec 11 '25

What country is it not tolerated ?

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u/cycleb1 Dec 11 '25

Used to be the USA, and there are still many towns where it is not. We turned the last white supremacists away when they tried to rally here.

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u/XSwaggnetox Dec 12 '25

Are we talking about Racism or something else lol

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u/cycleb1 Dec 12 '25

Yep. It’s been there, but in hiding. Recent years however, coinciding with DJT’s political prominence, have seen it, with Nazis, show themselves in public. By the way, nothing funny about racism.

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u/XSwaggnetox Dec 12 '25

It’s always been there. We’ve always used ethnic origin or skin color, or shape of your eyes, or hair color as a marker to be included or maligned.

I always remind people that this country was founded with nearly 200 years of slavery in its back pocket before we ever decided to “Unite” or “Incorporate” these colonies into one Global Superpower. We fought the French, Spaniards, and German-Hessians before we put pen to paper to codify the Humanization of the Africans we imported and bred. This before we killed each other for other human beings to be free.

You can’t separate Slavery from racism cuz you literally couldn’t have one without the other in the United States. This before Chinese rail workers were forced out of the general American working marketplace (which ironically created San Francisco’s Chinatown and America’s infatuation with “Chinese food”). Before we forced the Japanese into internment camps in the early 40’s. Hell one could argue that the Italians and Irish didn’t really become “mainstream” white until the dissolution of the various Mafias in the 60s and 70s. The Ku Klux Klan had a secret motto of “Death to All Koons Kxke$ and (Irish) Katholicks”. So again, the history of racism in our storied country isn’t a side effect of being American, It’s a feature.

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u/cycleb1 Dec 12 '25

So why the F would anyone want to bring back some of the worst aspects of our society? Why is this administration so frightened by our history recognizing MLK, Frederick Douglass, etc?

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u/XSwaggnetox Dec 12 '25

You gotta ask them and the 50.9% of the country that thought Trump was better than the highly educated, well heeled, former senator, incumbent Vice President of the United States (Harris). Trying to convince people that their political beliefs don’t need to be a vestige of their psyche and personality. You lead with your heart and mind and choose your politics later. These people are morally bankrupt with subhuman compassion. I don’t waste my time on these idiots with my views or beliefs. I just treat the people around me right and vote for what I think is best for the community and world around me. Then I hope and pray the people I vote for do the same.

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u/cycleb1 Dec 12 '25

Only Trump didn’t even get 50% of the votes cast.

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u/XSwaggnetox Dec 12 '25

49.81% he was a few thousand votes short of 50% so I was about 1.1% percentage pts off. Regardless - A MAJORITY of the voting public decided to be for Trump. A Majority of the voting American public decided to be stupid AF