Imagine how much a certain segment of U.S. hates black people

[Henry203]

So much that we elected Trump twice. How hate drives us to vote for a white supremacist and a con man to the point that we would destroy our country.

[kimbutgar]

1. I have a brother in law who lives in Arizona who is maga

He used to be nice to me for many years and about 6 years ago he found out I was of African American ancestry. I’m light skinned and unless someone asks they assume I’m white. When he found out his attitude towards me changed where he barely talks to me when I visit Arizona!

[Easterncedar]

2. I will never understand this

[hatrack]

3. Good for you! Less time you might feel obligated to spend conversing with a racist asshole.

Win-win!

[kimbutgar]

4. My husband wanted to go on a trip with them next month and I told him no I'd rather skip going on a trip

All together. He’s close to his sister and wanted to spend time with her ( which I understand) but not him. I can’t talk politics and basically have to stay silent….I don’t think so!

He backed off on his idea finally!

[electric_blue68]

11. Ohhh, boy. Sorry you had that happen.

[senseandsensibility]

5. And women

All women, but especially those seeking power.

[QueerDuck]

9. This.

[electric_blue68]

12. Seeking power, or generally smart, and "uncomplient" according to their "standards".

[efhmc]

18. I think this is as strong or stronger hatred because almost all men have a woman in their household growing up.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. And "messicans". I've never gotten that. Guys, ONE-FOURTH of the lower 48 used to BE Mexico. Of course ...

... there are Spanish-speaking people there. When Americans turn down work picking crops, the corporate farms will hire whoever is cheapest to do that job, and that means poor Latin American immigrants, especially undocumented. Same with several other industries, which absolutely **RELY** on having a low-paid underclass with no benefits and no ability to stand up to their employers without drastic reprisals. This country was built up on slave labor, and now that slavery is illegal, corps need a reasonable facsimile to turn to. Now Trmp wants to deport everyone Hispanic, CITIZEN OR NOT. That's not an economic or social "policy", it's pure, undiluted racism. And about one third of America voted for it. And it's economically disastrous for a number of industries.

[mdbl]

7. depressingly so.

[MadameButterfly]

8. Imagine how much they must hate themeselves

that they need to feel superior by race and gender. I guess they don't think they can base their value on their own merits.

[erronis]

10. It's really hard for me to imagine. I have led a fortunately insulated life - from those types of people.

Traveled quite a bit, meet new people frequently and try to engage with everyone. Maybe it's just luck, but my known encounters with RW asshats is probably below 5%.

[Cirsium]

13. The national agenda

The white settler project has been here since the beginning. The founders were slave holders, murderers, rapists and land thieves.

[AverageOldGuy]

14. Here's a long comment from a native Mississippian

Long comment, not well organized.

Born 1944 in crossroads cotton picking town in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Reared on stories of the glories of Robert E. Lee, the bravery of our boys, the damnyankees burned our plantations, "the idea that little black boys should go to school with our little white girls is the damndest lie the Devil ever put on earth." Left at age 18, have gone back from time to time for funerals.

28 years a soldier, Vietnam vet; had a few jobs after retiring from the Army; now fully retired and have time to think about things.

As a college student in Alabama I marched behind the likes of King, Lewis, Abernathy, Jackson in Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery. Not much opportunity for civil disobedience in the Army, but, since retiring in 1995 have worked for several non-profits in affordable housing, education, equal treatment, . . . .

We are a racist nation, always have been, always will be. A certain segment of this country hates black people, always have, always will. A certain segment of this country believes deep down in their souls that there really are fixed, immutable differences between the "races" that makes black people mentally and socially inherently inferior to whites "They can't be trusted; they are not like us; we associate with them only if we have to; no, I will not go to a ##### doctor."

I have many cousins in Mississippi and Louisiana as well as in-laws in Alabama and Georgia. Visiting in their homes is EXACTLY LIKE being in the home where I was reared in the 1950's with grandparents and their generation, all born in 1890's, all steeped in moonlight and magnolias and faithful ol' mammies rocking the babies. My cousins' children and grandchildren all attended and graduated from all-white "segregation academies" (although they called them "schools" ) , pledged all-white sororities and fraternities at Ole Miss or LSU or Bama -- and they are exactly like their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, g-g-grandparents, and Confederate Colonel g-g-g-granddaddies.

Google the term "segregation academy" and read the results. When the federal government got around to enforcing Brown v. Board of Education, throughout the south states and local government reacted by forming private, "Christian academies" -- schools open only to white children. By claiming religious affiliations, they skirted federal equal opportunity requirements. Some failed, some are still open but struggling, while many are thriving and are well-established in their communities as the go-to school for white kids. Public schools are 99.9% black while state and local governments manage to funnel most education money to the "academies."

Read these books.

The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity, by James Cobb, 1994.

Cobb's work was echoed and updated by W. Ralph Eubanks in his Jan 2026 work -- read this: When It's Darkness On The Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became It's Poorest Land.

Jelani Cobb, a black woman writer, worked for the New Yorker for years. She has collected her writings on race for 2012 through 2025 in a new book Three Or More Is A Riot. Read it. Her writing goes from Travon Martin to Donald Trump.

[Botany]

15. 25% on straight racism and 35% on adding in sexism, generational ignorance, Christo Facsism, the

unending right wing shit storm of Russian disinformation aka Fox News, and …

[JustAnotherGen]

16. White Supremacy is in Amerikkka's DNA

At this juncture - to engage Black people you have to turn away from the idea of "coming together" at all costs when this Regime ends.

We saw what happened in 1877. We know the sick vicious cruelty unleashed on us.

People must be ostracized, imprisoned, loss of voting rights, loss of ability to work in ANY government position (Mailman to Staff Accountant in a state Government), and outlawed from.holding any elected office. That punishment needs to go down 20 levels from the top. We can.also learn a thing or two from Europe. . .

People like to.say this is just like Germany in the 1930's . But what came after? What lesson could we learn and implement?

Outlaw any and all symbols of the Confederacy.

That's such a simple thing that could engage us. White supremacy says we have to allow all freedom of speech even if it has caused real and measurable harm to Black Americans.

Outlaw the Confederate Flag. Its the right thing to do. Have it painted on your truck? You have 60 days to paint over it or we send it to the junkyard.

But Geeeen! That's not nice.

Neither Jim Crow or Jim Crow Esq. AmeriKKKa can suck a dick.

[Bluetus]

17. It was not just racism

After all, 20% of black men voted for Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-men-drifted-democrats-toward-trump-record-numbers-polls-show-n1246447

lots of Muslims and Latinos voted for Trump, giving the leopards a facial feast of biblical proportions.