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Time: The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama (White guilt alert)
Time Magazine ^ | December 13, 2016 | Leon Botstein

Posted on 12/14/2016 8:07:43 PM PST by Zakeet

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White America has prided itself as a nation based on acquired citizenship, freedom of religion and the rule of law, and formed by immigration. But that ideology was dominant two generations ago. The defining distinction, from the beginning, has been race and color, not religion or nationality. What post-Trump white America has expressed by endorsing Trump's campaign to "Make America Great Again" is not merely anger against elites in general but targeted resentment against the recent history of success by Americans of color. The racism in this year's election was not about an older stereotype of the Willie Horton-type, but directed against Barack Obama. It is precisely the parity in the achievements of black Americans, those who have become CEOs, scholars, scientists, artists, doctors, lawyers and politicians—and now even president—that has fueled the resurgence of intolerance and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Our challenge is to confront and diffuse the hypocrisy that exists between our ideals; our rhetoric about America as a place of freedom, tolerance and justice for all, a nation in which the Constitution and the Statue of Liberty are our guiding symbols; and our actions. Those of us who are in the dwindling white majority need to persuade our fellow citizens that overcoming prejudice is tested not by embracing those subordinate to us in class and status but by celebrating the reality of successful integration, the leading presence of citizens of color into the nation's elite.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; fakenews; obama; racism; whiteguilt
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To: Zakeet

It makes me sick that we’ve let these liberal idiots run this country into the ground. Oh, what a shock. He has a grumpy face like all the other dimwitted, demented leftists too.


41 posted on 12/14/2016 8:29:29 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: wjcsux
"He’s almost a George Soros look-alike."

An aging George Costanza.
42 posted on 12/14/2016 8:30:16 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Zakeet; dp0622

Old Stalinist self-hating White fag.


43 posted on 12/14/2016 8:33:55 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Zakeet

On the bright side, this is more proof that Progressives haven’t learned zippedy doo da from this election.


44 posted on 12/14/2016 8:34:59 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: Zakeet

Get the biggest fool you can of a token minority to represent your party, and then when your party gets repudiated, whine about bigotry.

That’s the ticket!


45 posted on 12/14/2016 8:35:15 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: TigersEye

They are one trick ponies, even when that trick goes out of style.


46 posted on 12/14/2016 8:36:06 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Zakeet

USA elected the illegal infiltrator enemy agent TWICE

so his “race” does NOT appear to have hurt him
does it?


47 posted on 12/14/2016 8:36:15 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Zakeet

These a-holes think we are at the tipping point and they are looking for one last push.


48 posted on 12/14/2016 8:38:56 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Zakeet

Somehow the Russians are behind this.....


49 posted on 12/14/2016 8:40:30 PM PST by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: King Moonracer

Obama,elected by Racists.

Exactly.


50 posted on 12/14/2016 8:42:39 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Zakeet
Liberals are certain that racism exists as a driving force in America for one very good reason: they themselves practice it every day.

Liberals truly believe blacks are inferior. After all, don't blacks need liberals to give them a hand up...or a hand out? Without liberals, blacks couldn't get into schools, couldn't get a job, couldn't find a place to live, couldn't call 911...

Just ask the prof...

51 posted on 12/14/2016 8:59:57 PM PST by okie01
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To: Zakeet

A “professor.”

Right down there with child molesters and journos, IMO.


52 posted on 12/14/2016 9:10:19 PM PST by ScottinVA
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To: Zakeet

Botstein Conehead, from Remu—FRANCE.
Straight political cant from this douche.


53 posted on 12/14/2016 9:13:26 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: Zakeet

Hey Egghead. Go see your shrink. You definitely need a “follow up”.


54 posted on 12/14/2016 9:51:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Zakeet

“The Election Was About Racism Against Barack Obama”

Wait! What? I could have sworn Hillary Clinton was the Dem nominee, not Obama, and Hillary is white, not black.


55 posted on 12/14/2016 9:56:36 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Chumdad

“Never trust a chubby bald white reporter wearing an unbalanced bow tie.”

He’s a CAPO!


56 posted on 12/14/2016 10:21:21 PM PST by vette6387
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To: dp0622

You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in ‘Nam of course.


57 posted on 12/14/2016 10:22:10 PM PST by MonicaG (God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
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To: Zakeet

Wait, Hillary is a Black Woman?


58 posted on 12/14/2016 10:24:36 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (One Man's Mainstream Media is another Man's Ministry of Propaganda.)
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To: Zakeet

Global warming is caused by racism.

Or is racism caused by global warming?

Donald Trump is *definitely* caused by racism.

But Barack Obama is *not* caused by racism.

Criticism of his big-government policies is *definitely* caused by racism.

There’s more certainty in the world than I thought.


59 posted on 12/14/2016 10:28:08 PM PST by WKTimpco
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To: Kickass Conservative

This purported “professor” professes to be a lunatic. No surprise there.


60 posted on 12/14/2016 10:29:15 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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