By Rev. Wayne Perryman
Over the years, we have now had numerous discussions at the topic, so much of which fascinated by the connection among blacks and whites yet seldom have we ever explored the position politics performed in developing our racist society. Historians document that one political celebration supported slavery and Jim Crow whereas the opposite occasion adverse them. additionally they document that one celebration was once often called the “Party of White Supremacy” and the opposite celebration used to be referred to as “Nigger Lovers.” In his ebook: desires From My Father, Senator Obama makes the relationship among politics and racism while he tells his readers how white Chicago Democrats vowed to vote Republican sooner than they'd vote for a black guy (Harold Washington) to be mayor of Chicago.
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