I know you're proud of your overt and ugly racism.
And I find your views appalling and downright evil.
Thus, I am forced to put you on Ignore, unless the Mods get to you first and remove your filthy posts......
I am sorry but I didn't see anything in that post that was racist. First there was a statement of fact, a law was passed.
After that, there is a saying that sums things up:
"Birds of a feather flock together".
To a great degree, that is a cultural thing, but cultures are formed by groups of people, and people are most comfortable around those who share their tribal attributes.
Because, at their core, humans are tribal in nature. We determine, instinctively, "friends" as those who look or act like us, and 'foes' as those who do not. It's instinctive, so much so that we normally attribute virtuous qualities to those we find so familiar as to consider them attractive, and less desirable attributes to those we do not consider attractive. Even children's cartoons have villains who are somehow unpleasant caricatures of ordinary human appearance. Friend or foe, part of my tribe or not?
We can redefine that tribe, by putting people together of widely varying backgrounds, giving them a common purpose, dressing them similarly, teaching them a new language or manner of speaking, unifying them with dress and mannerisms and a shared mission which makes them effectively into a new tribe. That's the process of changing raw recruits into soldiers, breaking down all the other tribal boundaries, and redefining them into a new tribe, gathered beneath a guidon or sporting a unit patch and uniform.
On a greater plane, we have done so under a common flag:
we are all Americans.
In that sense, we are part of that same tribe.
Without that unifying experience, however, the 'tribe' will include family, "people who look and act like us", people to whom no explanation is necessary, because they understand what you meant, they have a shared background which guarantees that. They celebrate the same holidays, worship the same, share values, even look alike and dress similarly.
So it has been throughout human history, sometimes the boundaries between the clans might be so subtle as hair or eye color, a different tartan (way of dress), sometimes they might be as stark as the contrast between combatants at Rorke's Drift.
As humans we tend to get nervous if surrounded by people who speak another language, one which we do not understand. They might be talking about the weather, effusive over your beauty, or plotting your demise--you just don't know, so you get nervous because you don't understand them--unless you can overcome that by relying on those common factors which all humans have: hunger, thirst, pleasure, pain, joy, love, even suspicion and hatred.
Is it 'racist' to seek out your own kind or simply human nature?
If we are honest, it is human nature to trust the familiar, distrust the unknown.
It's why the Earthling shoots the Aliens first, and asks questions later.
What is more extraordinary is to overcome the divisions, the differences, and find common ground, to share the best aspects of those diverse cultures, to not summarily deny human nature, but to capitalize on it, to re-draw the boundaries of the tribe.
From the poem "Outwitted" by Edwin Markham:
“He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In !"
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/179023.Edwin_MarkhamThere, you have the whole racism thing in one short verse.
Let's not pretend that we aren't, somewhere along the line, pretty much imbued with an instinctive distrust of the different, the unknown. We may have a host of different reactions to that, from excitement of discovery, to curiosity, to fear (which begets 'hatred' and mistrust), but our instinctive comfort level is with those who are familiar, who are like us. Then the question becomes one of how wide you will cast that net, where you will set the boundaries which define when someone is "like me" enough to be on the inside.
The person(s) who crafted the statute in Texas back when drew a tighter circle and made it law.
Since then, the American tribe has grown to take more people in, but that can no more be demanded by a law than refuted by one, it is human nature which must be reprogrammed to set those boundaries along our borders, to emphasize the commonality of the cultures here, to all be part of that American Tribe.
Unfortunately, with identity politics, those boundaries are being re-established (again) but not as that wider tribe united under a common flag, but by the subgroups defined by the 'identity' being used to define those groups as united against against all others and not with the rest of us. Adding in economic divisions, adding in dependency on government programs, and a host of other, often self inflicted, problems, and those "Identity" divisions become more stark in contrast to the larger group.
That is the reason there was progress toward national unity as those divisions were minimized, and the reason we see that tide reversed today, as those divisions are emphasized more than ever.
The other side of those identity politics is the question of why that group would separate itself from us. Why do they want to be separate, and a different (and even hostile) tribe?
It doesn't mean "racism" is any worse than it was before, only that that essential part of human nature is
still there, seeking to know who is friend from foe, who will nurture and who will destroy, who is part of our tribe. What it means is that those boundaries are being redefined to the detriment of us all.
Note, please, all humans are tribal in nature; that is no comment against any subgroup of Homo sapiens, just acknowledging that is part of our nature. With "Whites" the tribes have included Angles, Jutes, Bretons, Campbells, Stuarts, Hapsburgs, Prussians, Vikings, and others and their subgroups. Our surnames are an indicator of our most basic tribal unit. An earlier North America included hundreds of tribes divided into thousands of bands, and so forth on every continent that has known human occupation.