Tee Jae Smith: We've Had Forty-Five Racist Presidents, Not Just One
Tee Jae Smith
And once again we return with more of that shit I can't stand... The other day Joe Biden, a racist responsible for racist policies that ruined the lives of black families in America decided to flap his dick sucking lips to declare Trump as American's first racist President. While I should not be surprised that Biden has once again managed to eject some form of stupid liberal nonsense from the depth of his pro-segregation soul chasm, I am nonetheless amused that something as wrong as that would be allowed to be spoken by him. To be clear Trump is indeed a racist piece of baboon shit and a blight on humanity that all of existence will be better off when he lays rotting and stinking in the earth. However, he does not have the unique honor of being our first racist President.
The comments made by the other racist rapist do a good job of showing off a particularly pungent liberal brain fart that has become a popular rallying cry among the crowd begging and pleading to go to brunch. This narrow and very specific brand of racism that pretty much only relegates that title to the likes of Trump, his army of MAGA thrills, and the cursed creatures who are a part of his disastrous and evil administration. It reveals a common understanding of racism as being this virulent strain of bigotry that only shows up in the loudest and hyperbolic ways and ignores the reality of the actually mundane and banal racism that many encounter and practice on a regular basis.
If America is to ever tame the beast of racism, ( something I don't think is possible in a capitalist country whose political, justice, and economic system relies on cruel racial hierarchies just to remain functional), then we must look beyond the simple easy to spot instances of racism from an orange monster spewing hate from his pale, crusty lips. You have to re-examine every single fiber of this country. How is wealth accumulated? Who gets to make the rules that govern us and who most benefits from those policies? What is taught in school? What do we consume for entertainment? All of these questions and so many others I am not thinking of at the moment have racist elements to them in some form or another.
When looking at the office of the President, in particular, it's not clear how many occupants were explicitly racist, (although many were), it's not at all unclear how many supported racist policies. That number is 45, yes even the black one. But this sort of revisionist history that liberals like to subscribe to in order to paint trump as a unique evil, another thing he is not, erases the centuries of racist contributions made by the men who found themselves in that office. I'm talking about slave owners, supporters of the KKK, segregation, Jim Crow laws. Presidents, who started the war on drugs and those who advanced it as well as Presidents who worked hard to build the modern police state and prison industrial complex to quietly ensure slavery always remained a part of the United States DNA. And that's just domestic racism. When one looks at our policies around the world, the idea that somehow Trump is our first racist to stink up the Oval office becomes even more laughable and grossly more offensive.
White supremacy is the cornerstone of US foreign policy and dates back to when this landmass was just a bunch of colonies on stolen, blood-soaked land. The entirety of our foreign policy relies on othering and demonizing countries of brown and black people all so that we can control the fate of those many nations in order to make a few white people at home richer. That is not something that came into fruition when Trump took office and has no signs of stopping anytime soon. Even now both political parties have begun to ramp up the racial animus against China to otherize and demonize those people. Not because we care that China is a massive human rights abuser and essentially a dictatorship, but because they are growing as economic rivals and need to be put in their place. That is an easier task when the American public is trained to hate the right people.
And again, we have had actual slave owners, slave raping pedophile Presidents. But because Americans care more about myth and make-believe, that point often is sidestepped with the typical defenses of it being a long time ago and these were flawed men who still were great figures who changed the world. In truth, our founding fathers were mostly noble aristocrats seeking to protect their economic interests first and foremost and had a very narrow idea of who should be allowed to have any say so in how their slave nation was run. That being rich white land-owning men and no one else. Instead of confronting the reality of racism being one of the founding principles of our nation, conservatives downplay the extent of slavery while trying to whitewash history so that kids will think most slaves had a pretty okay time being property. Liberals are no better. They too are averse to confronting reality and instead choose to celebrate rapist murderers by re-imagining them as cool POC hip hop rappers, singers, and dancers to make Amy Cooper democrats and KHive dudes feel warm and fuzzy.
America is a racist country that has been supported by explicit and tacit racist since day one and will remain as such for the foreseeable future. I have 0 faith in this country ever improving upon this. The populous simply does not have the fortitude to ever deal with the history of racism and instead chooses to create its own fiction in myriad ways. But if we are to ever have the slimmest opportunity to ever be more than the racist dumpster fire that we are today, a country that can only seem to find rapists and racist warmongers who hate the poor to lead it, comments like the dumb shit Biden said this week need to be called out and dismantled. While I guess it might be nice to think Trump is the source of bad things in America, it's just not reality and as long as that kind of thought persists, we will only get more Bidens and more Trumps to keep this country a white supremacist nation.
