by Reid Fitzsimons

100 years ago racism was threaded throughout America’s institutions. Most of it was patronizing and condescending: the view held by many whites that black people were simply not up to snuff as a race, but like a family pet were treated with kindness as long as they knew their place. It wasn’t white supremacy, per se, but more of a white superiority. This type of racism persists and is entrenched in the modern progressive movement.

(Above) Racism and segregation in the past (Below) the racism of present day progressives: perpetual victimhood and general incompetence of blacks- they can't be independent and think objectively

There was, of course, a much more vile- and too often murderous- level of racism, well documented by lynchings and supported in degrees by local, state, and Federal political power. An integral characteristic of this was a two-tiered justice and law enforcement, a generic belief that white people were to be believed and presumed innocent and an assumption of guilt for blacks.