My Thoughts on the Racist, Kathy Miller

The following was inspired from another thread here.


I'm going to make this comment it's own subject in General Discussion, as well.

Fantastic Anarchist's (FA) comment:

File this under the fucking-unbelievable file. It's truly tragic that close to 2017, we are still having to resolve this, the issue (that keeps on issuing) of systemic racism and bigotry in the United States of America. It's not some old relic that's isolated to some rural communities in Small Town, USA. This a real issue; pervasive, accepted, indignant, and just absolutely pathological in what is not just a tiny bruise on America's big toe, but a very real, very sick phenomenon of quite a sizable magnitude, say like that of an ischemic bowel. Couple the overt with covert feelings and ideas of the average American, and it reveals a moral deficit that just hasn't had a proper surgeon to excise, apparently - because we tend to think that only one person can solve this. Trying to have a conversation about an issue that goes against everything that the United States supposedly has "cured" by electing a black president, is met with derision, minimized, playing the race card, racial warfare, etc.

I am not a black man, so I can't truly comprehend what it's like to live as a person of color in any part of the country, much less some of the communities that are still morally grounded in the 60s. When I say 60s, I'm talking about the 1860s. So, I can only offer opinions from what I see and better hope to understand how my black brothers and sisters feel and what they have to endure.

I'm not going to isolate any region in the country. When we talk about racism, most of us are, consciously or subconsciously thinking of the southern states. No, to do that would mean letting most of the rest of the country off, which of course, is not acceptable. Yes, some of the political atmosphere appears to revolve around the south still trying to "win" the Civil War, but the North, Midwest, and West are guilty just the same, albeit for different reasons, or the same - who knows? - nothing makes sense. My opinion is not based on any scientific study or research, but I believe that people like Trump gain so many followers because he plays on the fears and anxieties of white, middle-class folks who fear that they no longer hold the political leverage they once possessed. Much of their anxiety, in my opinion, may be met with feelings of perceived reciprocity. That whatever was done to minorities may come back to legislatively or "not-so-legislatively" be visited upon them. This, of course, is not true; most of the country, at least in the largest cities have progressed more than one would think. It's almost 2017, and most of us Gen-Xers and younger Millennials, and kids moving into the labor market seem to have normalized progressive race relations. I think it comes naturally for us. The Millennials, to me, have been remarkably progressive - but again, I haven't constructed formal surveys based on accepted scientific statistical methodologies.

Of course, I do not mean to imply, by any stretch, that we are squeaky clean; I just hope to convey that the younger generations, with technology that enables us to communicate and interact with people all over the world. Knowing people, perhaps, serves to immunize ourselves from our own innate xenophobic tendencies. Again, I'm speaking in generalities, but it's to serve an overall point. My opinion is not mean to explicitly describe and evaluate this subject on a granular level.

With that said, below are some of the remarks said by Ms. Kathy Miller (which actually has more quotes than that of the above link contains, I believe).

Link for more gems provided by Ms. Miller et al:

Kathy Miller, chair of the Republican nominee's campaign in Mahoning County, who is white, made the remarks during a taped interview with the Guardian's Anywhere but Washington series of election videos.

His latest effort at outreach involved a visit to a black church in Cleveland on Wednesday, when cameras captured the Republican nominee chuckling after boxing promoter Don King used the N-word.

*FA: But then this will entail actually using words that are normally used in the comfort of one's home where they can bitch and moan about the &quot A) Niggers, (B) Faggots, (C) Spics, and (D) Camel Jockeys who are (A) lazily living extravagantly eating caviar and lobster on welfare checks; (B) destroying the moral fabric of this blessed Christian Nation and will serve to bring about the wrath of God; (C) Will overrun our country with their brown skin and hard-work - they do the jobs most Americans won't do, only because they don't have the leverage to reject the shit wages offered to them like we Americans have; (D)Because hastily and lazily constructed metaphors about proportionately inaccurate numbers make absolute sense when discussed with like-minded fellow WASPs, Mr. and Mrs. Conner Aldridge III, Esquire.

*I used these offensive words only to show context and for effect. If this offends even one person, please feel free to PM, and I'll kindly remove, no questions asked.