Posted on 01/02/2016 1:49:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"Trump is unleashing this sense among a certain group of white men that violence is acceptable."
In an op-ed Thursday at The Los Angeles Times, contributor Dexter Thomas (pictured above) declares that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is "a white-people problem" and that the white "community must take responsibility for any damage that has been done, and take steps to correct it."
Thomas wrote that "people of color" police their own because "[w]henever a black or brown person does something unsavory in public, members of their community know that it will - fairly or not - reflect on them." He urges whites to handle the controversial, "particularly embarrassing" Trump the same way:
White people should feel insulted by [Trump's appeal to "white nationalists"]. They should feel ashamed - as white people - of Donald Trump. Whites need to stand up and say that they will not allow Trump to hijack their culture, or to conduct his racist politics in their name.
But that's not enough, Thomas continues. Whites must also "take responsibility for any damage that has been done, and take steps to correct it." He refers to race-mongering activist Tim Wise, who warns that Trump empowers "angry white people" who "might turn to terrorism."
Thomas then quotes race-mongering "comedian" Kamau Bell, who says that whites need to police Trump and the racists among their own because "white people listen to other white people better than they listen to anyone else."
To that end, Thomas plugs Dara Silverman's organization Showing Up for Racial Justice, which aims to organize 7 million whites who will pledge to combat racism in their daily lives. It's not enough for whites who disagree with Trump simply to joke about him; they need to "vow to work with their neighbors - for many of whom America was never particularly 'great'" in order to change "the society that allowed him to come to prominence."
So come on, all you privileged white people, don't let Donald Trump speak for you and conduct his racist politics in your name - you know, like blacks did with Barack Obama.
Yeah the one on the left..looks like this freak, I can hide my keys in his afro
“’people of color” police their own’” Really?
We’re more than glad to!
I hope when Armageddon comes that their truly massive LA building (which is actually a mound of noxious, stinky landfill inhabited by commie creeps) is the first to be attacked by the BLM hordes.
Leni
D*mn right we do, oh low IQ journalism majors.
Shove your silly lib logic up your collective Obamaholes and be very afraid when CW-II comes.
Thomas wrote that “people of color” police their own because “[w]henever a black or brown person does something unsavory in public, members of their community know that it will - fairly or not - reflect on them.
What? Where? When have they “policed their own”?
Just below the right side center I see a “You’re Special” participation certificate.
Whites have been slaving at work for generations now to pay for the welfare community. Whites have done enough for people who use them and destroy their own lives then blame us.
When your community is so bad that a police officer stops my family in East St. Louis and tells us to run every light to get out NOW! You have no one to blame but yourselves that whites now have had enough and feel a need to defend themselves....your community is out there calling for the murder of whites!!!!!!! That is on your heads not whites who have done enough and no longer care. Take care of your own mess and stop preaching at me. Until you do whites are going to try to stay safely away, not bother with the horror of your community and get pissed off at the condescending preaching that is disgusting.
Please see post 28.
FR exists, in part (IMHO, anyways) to share precisely this sort of article. Because while we may laugh at and deride it, it represents “mainstream” Leftist thought of the type the Leftist are trying to push into the mainstream.
Forewarned is forearmed. I’d rather read about this nonsense here and help formulate rebuttal and pushback than wake up one morning and find it’s been institutionalized into the mainstream.
Diamond and Silk created TRUMP.
All of them black ladies. Soooo where's the racism?
Heh. Sorry, but your rant only rates a four out of five for lambasting cluelessness, then misusing the word “dribble.”
Concerning ‘Dear White America’ in the New York Times
Responsibility? How about “credit?”
It really is pretty interesting to look at the attacks on Trump. I don’t think they would be nearly as frequent and hysterical if he were, as keeps being alleged, a person who truly is unlikely to win.
The Donald is very much NOT a “typical white”, he is an entrepreneur who has very successfully parlayed what was a rather large personal fortune into being one of the wealthiest persons in the US.
And he did it all through application of those principles he delineated so well in his book “Art of the Deal”, a primer on how to turn cash investment into a rather comfortable pile of goods and property.
But The Donald is much more than that. He sees a vision of a nation that was once the greatest in the world, leading to a golden age of prosperity, but dragged down by the “equalizers”, zealous jealous little men who never learned how to MAKE something of their own, but could only TAKE from others. The other part of that vision is that the former greatness can be restored, and he will negotiate with as many parties as it takes to assure that future is realized.
But he does not negotiate with those of whom are there only to work an angle, giving nothing but expecting some reward just for showing up. Come to the table with something of value, for which you are willing to exchange for something of even greater value to yourself. The Donald has exactly that expectation for himself, and he will use whatever strategy necessary for both parties to walk away from the table satisfied with the results of the deal.
The Donald does not tolerate slackers or whiners, and excuses are not negotiating tools. If you cannot or will not do the job, then expect to hear, “You’re fired!”
But he does hire a lot of people in the first place.
Do we also get to take ‘responsibility’ for the Civilization that allows dumbasses like the author to freely, and with no fear of retaliation, publish moronic crap like this article?
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