For some reason I only just saw this blog Forgottenman published yesterday. Too many irons in the fire, but this man says what a lot of us have been thinking and he says it so well. Have a look:
For some reason I only just saw this blog Forgottenman published yesterday. Too many irons in the fire, but this man says what a lot of us have been thinking and he says it so well. Have a look:
Of course. Why did he get elected?
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Too too sad
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As a black female who has lived my life afraid to laugh loud, speak loud, or just walk into some places because of feeling unwanted, I know that racism and racist rhetoric has been used long before Trump to get politicians elected and to keep divisions among the poor. He simply does it with less subtlety, but no less effectively. I told my college students that it is pure genius to prevent poor whites from identifying with poor people of color. It allows the rich to divide and conquer, utilizing feelings of hopelessness to be turned into racial animosity, so that the white poor blames everybody but corporate America and their more wealthy brothers and sisters for their poverty and addictions. As long as racist rhetoric generates race hate, powerful people will use it to stay in power. This has been true since slavery ended. Read the rhetoric from European immigrants and the current immigrants, same words: will never assimilate, different values, rapists and criminals (Irish and Italians), will take your jobs, cannot speak the language. What is amazing is that we don’t teach history in a way that allows people to recognize it being repeated.
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This disaster has been waiting hundreds of years to fully surface. Yes, I didn’t do it and you didn’t do it but so many of our countrymen did it and are doing it and maybe we could have done more to stop them. I don’t know. I wish I had an answer.
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