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So do you think America is a racist country?

I think America is a country because it was built on slavery and racism.

I think fundamentally it is kind of that's something that's always going to be present

but that's something that was there from the beginning and it's something that's still there

rather than like, oh this is an outside issue that we have to deal with.

Like, oh no, like racism, you know, it's coming together.

It's like this is something that's been with us since the beginning.

Really, I don't know, maybe I think a lot of people recognize that, especially probably here,

but I think the issue is that people will treat racism as this external problem that's not like fundamentally a part of our country.

So realizing that that's sort of what the situation is I think will help.

You know, in efforts to undo the institutionalized racism that has been present since beginning.

Do you think that we've sort of, of course we went through slavery in the Jim Crow era and all that stuff

and we progressed outside of that and right now legally you and I are equal.

So do you think that we can sort of have these conversations about slavery in Jim Crow and acknowledge them

but not make racism such a pivotal issue like we are today?

What do you mean by not making it a pivotal issue?

So do you still think that there's evidence of systemic racism in America today?

Yeah, definitely. I think that's, I mean, I'm not super, like that's not my field of study,

but definitely from what I've seen, like statistics of like arrests and like jail time served and all these different things.

I feel like though technically, legally, you know, there's more equality, there's still a lot of stuff that's been there.

Stuff that's either like still sort of within the system or it's like subliminal that people don't really feel they need to address

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