Who is responsible for America's racial strife? (radical, racism, Brown)

[Gunion Powder]

Did black people bring racism over here from Africa or is it possible we learned this behavior from somewhere else?

Who came first, the KKK or the Black Panthers? More importantly, which group is still active today?

[Gunion Powder]

Those slave ships looked pretty cramped. I'm not sure there was enough room for a blind contempt for people of a different race.

[whogo]

John Locke

[Gunion Powder]

Originally Posted by whogo

John Locke

Don't go blaming foreigners for America's mess.

[No_Recess]

The State and proponents of the State are always to blame.

[ATX Homeboy]

Jon Locke was English and so were British Americans when the first slaves arrived in the British colonies in 1619.

Of corse the French trafficked slaves for profit as did the Spanish. And let us not forget who restarted the slave trade in the 1400s, the Portugues who controlled trade in Midddle and southern africa during that time period.

Hundreds of years of might makes right mentality and the belief in the superiority of the White European race over their black brothers? The ABSOLUTE ownership of human chattle to do with as you please and the later belief that we were their "responsible caretakers. At least in the south anyway. Slave rebellions, fear and panic, abolition, bloody kansas, Radicals like John Brown, civil war, the rise of the klan, civil rights movement and white push back?

The black panthers and the klan still exist today.

Pretty simple to understand if you read books.

[whogo]

The concept that all men were entitled to "life, liberty and property" meant that some men had to be classified as something less than men in order to justify slavery.

[golimar]

The Democrat Party.

[Tall Traveler]

It started with slavery (thanks Democrats), continued with Jim Crow (thanks Dems), and now is propagated by BLM and racial preferences (thanks Democrats).

[ReineDeCoeur]

Seriously? Read a book.

Furthermore, who is the "we" in your post? It's clearly not "black" people.