>>You can't see what I mean. I mean Ottoman was a -kingdom-. One man was ruling Ottomans. Your country is a republic from at the beginning. I can't understand how you can fit racism in democracy until 60s? That's the point.
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>Racism and slavery were part of US culture from the time Europeans first settled here (because it was a part of culture there). It was simply a fact when the republic started.
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>That doesn't excuse it. It simply is the way things were.


Wow... You talked like John Wayne...