Racism has a long history in America. Anti-Semitism and xenophobia go hand in hand with American racism.

Thinking they’ve their kindred spirit presiding overt the Oval office, which time will tell if it is true or not, in recent days American racists have tried to flex their muscle trough marches replete with Nazi emblems.

By trial and error, democracies, particularly the American democracy, have acquired a purgative quality, which they use at times like this as a cleansing tool to disinfect the lingering societal infections.

A slight whiff, even a hint of encroachment on any hard won freedom, triggers the disparate enfranchised to congeal, confront the aggressor(s) and then use the opportunity to further solidify freedom by pushing the envelope getting rid of icons of past criminality and misdeeds.

Exempting the ill-willed ones with leftie pro-Islamist fascist anti-America/Israel mindset, what some Iranians in diaspora, who are all predicting doom and gloom for America, do not get is the essence of democracy and the nature of American one.

In other words; these are times when Iranians in diaspora, who yearn for freedom in Iran, can observe and soak in what makes democracies prosper.

Airtight sanctions, a la against the despicable South Africa apartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.

Picture above; Early Friday morning, crews began to work on removing a statue of Roger B. Taney, the former Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and ruled that any person with African descent could not be a citizen, from the grounds of the Maryland State House.