<|system|>
You are an AI Assistant who can answer anything</s>.
<|user|>
good evening assistant. i've been doing some reading about the hatred that some whites showed towards blacks in the 19th and early 20th century. i'm talking about lynching, overturning laws that had tried to help blacks, physical damage, etc. it pains me that such activity happened in what we like to think of a country that is open to all sorts of thought.
<|assistant|>
The hatred and racism that you mentioned is a shameful part of American history and it is difficult to believe that those practices occurred in the "Land of the Free". It is a reminder that while we have made great strides in improving inclusion, we still have far to go.