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In my opinion...again and again it boils down to RACISM...Overall, have the right colour of skin and no problems. Whiteness gives you smartness???

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I agree it is racism, but also many other factors ranging from class warfare to the fundamental refusal to accept its empire is in decline. It is suffering imperial overreach and cannot accept the US only speaks for 5% of the world population, with the entire West only at 12%. It is desperately trying to compensate for what lit lacks in population with belligerence and endless war.

Many international relations experts point out it is impossible for any one nation to control the world , including China.

The sad fact is that with its present intransigence the US is weakening itself as an essential countervail to China's rising power.

The world will only survive as a community of nations working in harmony together, and we must see our way through Washington's childish tantrum because it can't have its way.

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I never was good at history...too many dates to remember :-( But...from the little I know the WHITE RACE has been disturbing the shit for centuries, always believing to be superior to all other races. Wonder whence this comes from...And as for dominating our world...In it's 'attempt' to dominate the world, China hasn't fired a single shot...yet! And how many shots has the West/USA been firing for a good 200+ years???

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Oct 25·edited Oct 25Author

Racism originated with the slave trade about five hundred years ago courtesy of European imperialists. I have just been to New Orleans and visited a museum showing how brutally blacks were treated.

It has been said the white man must always have somebody to look down on, and this appears to be endemic.

I think there is a stark of fear of being wiped out as we are a global minority . What we lack in numbers we compensate for with endless wars, belligerence and stupidity.

I also belief the arrogant hubris that emanates from Washington is also tacit expressions of inferiority and inadequacy and bullying is the manifestation

Clearly the wrong people are in charge.

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How is that saying...war begets war? And so, kind of, violence through racism begets more violence. IF! the white race had a clean conscience...IF! it would have nothing to fear.

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Technically it's white supremacy. And the most insidious thing about the white supremacist patriarchy is that it hurts white women and children and working class white men immensely too. Most of those people don't even realize that. All wars are class wars.

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So we are dealing with the Ku Klux Clan in business suits, everything old is new again.

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