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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy the hell are we divided over race?
I want to hear some cable news talking head ask the question of a white person defending Trump and demand they actually verbalize an answer.
They will inevitably revert to reverse racism and they out themselves for what they are.
BIGOTED Asswipes.
Ask the fucking question. It must be asked.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)because WE HAVE ALWAYS been divided over race in ameriKKKa.....and you points and glaringly real question to 'talking heads', I agree totally with.
But that question will never get ask, and your answer will never get fully discussed, because it goes way past Trump AND way past "right wingers."
onecent
(6,096 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,984 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)nycbos
(6,034 posts)"if you can convince the lowest white man he is better than the best colored man won't notice you picking his pockets."
better
(884 posts)It's because as long as the aristocratic class can keep the poor and middle class fighting among themselves, we won't be coming after them. It goes all the way back to elevating white indentured servants above black slaves.
And it is because far too few grasp the truth that one need not be racist to support racist ideas or hold racist beliefs.
They need merely not recognize that the ideas or beliefs are rooted in, and in service of, racism they don't actually harbor.
Being a white guy who grew up in the Deep South, I have experienced this first hand, and had to evaluate carefully what I believed not because it bore any resemblance to truth, but because it served someone else's racism for me to believe it, and I hadn't paid close enough attention to notice the difference.
WhiteTara
(29,716 posts)Poor, provincial white people who have low self esteem who need someone to be better than.
Some men need to cut off the heads of others to feel tall.
Yoginanda Paramahangsa
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Is it different from regular racism?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)many believe if it's on MSNBC and CNN it must be true, it becomes true.