America is a racist nation, but we don’t want to be

A protest in Charlottesville, VA that is worth supporting, image courtesy of Jake Vanaman and Wikimedia Commons

Is the title of this article controversial? To anyone who has spent some time in honest study of our history, the first part of it, at least with regard to our founding and many of the years since, as obvious. The colonists stole land from the indigenous peoples and built new societies on the backs of slaves. For a hundred years after the Civil War, black Americans still lived in a condition of…