One of the things that shocked me when I started following politics was how racist so many of the republican party members are and to be honest a few democrats as well.  They finally drove Steve King out due to his over the top hate for black people and constant promotion of whites as the only salvation for the country.  But I saw this in Reagan in the 1980s and it has gotten much worse.  So many openly racist people are now in the US congress and they are not just men; at least one is a woman from the south who openly hates Black people.  First let me be clear, I have heard the arguments made up by white supremacists with their false made up claims,  but when I got the chance to work with people of a different skin tone I found two things.  One was there was no difference between us in mental ability or the way we did our jobs, and second … Sorry but some of the nonwhite guys I knew were hot and made me horny as hell.  Now having said that I of course respected everyone’s boundaries, and I won’t say if I had a few interesting 4 day passes with persons of a different skin tone than mine.  But just say I did I can honestly report the melanin in their skin did not change their reactions or our pleasures on those passes … if they happened. OK, yes, they did and I loved it.  So did they. But you get my point.  The only difference between them and me at that age in that situation was our skin color and I saw how soft bigotry worked.  Two young white guys going into a motel in South Carolina raised no eye browes, but when I went to that same hotel with a dark skinned companion, we had to show our military IDs, give my license plate information, and plenty of other things.  That was my go to place because they had a nearby amusement park which we could pretend was what we were there for … not the hot sex happening in the hotel room.  So even then racism was real in the 1980s and every time it happened I saw the person I was with shrink a bit more inside themselves. Something I understood as an abused child.  We really need to do more to fight it.   Hugs