This Is Who We Are: A Nation Founded and Maintained on Racism

Racism has been a permanent and pervasive feature of the United States of America.

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While a young 18-year-old white man pulled the trigger at a Buffalo, New York grocery store shooting 13 and killing 10, most of whom were black, the old and perennial system of patriarchal Christian white supremacy provided the guns and bullets.

Since colonial days, actually, since the voyage of Christopher Columbus and his crew, racism has been a permanent and pervasive feature, the very foundation, of the United States of America, even though great strides have been made over the centuries to turn the tide.

We must not, therefore, dismiss the recent mass racist shootings and rallies in the United States — from Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, to the Walmart in El Paso, to the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg, to the Masjid E Noor Mosque in Indianapolis, to the Pulse Bar in Orlando, to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, to the Capitol insurrection in Washington, DC, and so many more — merely as acts by some deranged or mentally ill individuals acting out their sickness, but, rather, we must understand these incidents as individuals acting out our country’s longstanding…