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Randy Credico: Racism is in the fabric of the cloth of the nation. It goes [back to] the middle passage, to slavery, to convict leasing [to] Jim Crow. Jim Crow and convict leasing were simultaneous. Horrible period of time, just horrible! And now, it hasn’t changed. This country is so racist, and you have the drug laws that were initiated by Nixon and then Rockefeller and then Reagan.

These are planned schemes; they’re almost like what were called the Carlsbad Decrees, but only on African-Americans. They’ve got TV shows on it. You’ve got “Cops,” where this voyeur nation is seeing blacks and Latinos being shoved into the prison system. You’ve got MSNBC. In spite of their reputation of being a liberal news network, they have a show called “Lockup.”

There are so many prisons, but you know it’s primarily voyeurism of blacks and Latinos all over the country, and it’s an epidemic; it’s a sickness.

There have been some changes, but the beat goes on. Even though the Rockefeller drug laws have been amended slightly, but they have not been repealed. I’m for full repeal.

What’s the racism? America is one of the most racist countries in the history of the planet. Slavery was worse here than it ever was in Egypt or any other country. The Romans didn’t treat the slaves as the slaves were treated here.

How did slavery exist if it weren’t for racism? So you have 150 years later — not that long a period of time — a lot of hatred. I don’t know where it comes from. It’s a superiority complex.

You know it’s racist when you’ve been to the courtrooms like I have and you see the way blacks are treated like chattel. If they were all Italians or all Irish or all Jews only going to the prison system here, believe me, this wouldn’t exist. It’s just that there’s a collective racism in this country that allows this to happen.

I hear the way they talk — cops, judges. The whole system is corrupt, from top to bottom. And the only way it could exist is the level of racism that we have in this country. You have it in England; you have it in France; but it’s particularly vile in this country.