In other words, a turd.
Posted on 05/23/2016 4:05:12 PM PDT by HomerBohn
American Republicans who support Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential bid are knowingly backing “the meanest, whitest, most vile bigot possible” because they fear losing majority status.
That’s according to The Guardian’s Steven Thrasher, who contends that minorities will never prosper in the United States until 2043 “when this white supremacist nation becomes mostly non-white.”
Thrasher calls Trump’s rise to political power on the right predictable nearly eight years after the nation elected its first black president because “every bold advancement of progress in the United States is met by a racist backlash.”
Calling Obama “a clear symbol that the country is literally becoming more black,” Thrasher believes white Americans view Trump as a candidate who could somehow reverse the trend.
“In its final 27 years, some of the dying white majority are so desperate to hold onto their dwindling power it’ll come as no surprise when they follow history’s powder and elect a reactionary, racist, sexist man,” Thrasher said. “And that’s why a Trump presidency would be as historically American as the bald eagle, indigenous genocide, the three-fifths clause, mass incarceration, and apple pie.”
This, of course, is a bunch of nonsense.
First of all, Obama’s hope and change progress for U.S. blacks looks a little less impressive from a minority perspective by the numbers.
As talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley pointed out awhile back when asked if black Americans are doing better under Obama: “I’m not sure we are and I think ultimately the president missed a moment… On every leading economic issue, in the leading economic issues Black Americans have lost ground in every one of those leading categories. So in the last ten years it hasn’t been good for black folk. This is the president’s most loyal constituency that didn’t gain any ground in that period.”
Since Obama’s ‘bold advancement” into the White House, black poverty rates have inched up by a couple percentage points while labor participation rates for American blacks have hit historic lows.
Back in 2014, The Financial Times pointed out that median income for non-white households in the U.S. had “dropped by almost a 10th to $33,000 a year” since Obama’s inauguration. Similarly, net worth for black households fell an astonishing 34 percent between 2010 and 2013.
So if white Americans were truly looking for a presidential candidate who can harm minority progress, they’d vote for whichever candidate whose economic policy agenda most closely resembles Obama’s.
Ping
Who will pay for their welfare and food stamps once they kill off the white Americans?
Ah, there’s the rub.
The quotas were filled up by non-traditional nations after the “1965 Immigration Act” switched off the traditional European sources of migration.
So they want the entire country to be like Detroit and Baltimore with the added problem of not having tax money from whites to prop them up and pay for the handouts?
“Most whites won’t vote for another black President in their lifetime.”
I absolutely do NOT want to endure through another period anything like this one that is hopefully ending under Obama!!!
The world is a jungle and no place for sheep.
There was a pastoral tribe that lived in Turkey until their land was taken from them. Then they lived in central Europe until that land was taked from them. Then they lived in Germania until warring neighbors pushed them out a into the frozen north. Then they learned to build ships and get iron from peat moss for swords, and people scratched their heads why the Vikings were such PO’d SOBs for hundreds of years.
We need to get a lot more practical, a little less civilized, and reserve our charity for our “tribe”...the We the People tribe.
Returning the soapbox ;)
It is so obvious that Thrasher is a racist bigot projecting and so sad he is so clueless about it. What a poor tiny little man.
They would reelect Obama tomorrow if they could.
Pay? Pay?
That's just so 1980s.
Everything will be free!
There are many blacks I would vote for and many whites I would never vote for. It depends on the person not their skin pigment. Racism is a leftwing thing.
Doubtful.
Theres a lot of ruin in a country, but more in some than others. Venezuela was a much weaker operation than Brazil - much less diverse economy, screwed up by many decades of oil dependence pre-Chavez - the recent government, believe it or not, is only partly responsible for the mess.
The US is likely to be a richer Brazil - much much richer, though the ethnic configuration will make it poorer per capita than it is today. It is however survivable, though there will be an unofficial caste system.
We aren’t looking at a cataclysm, but paralysis.
Perhaps you meant to post to the same one I commented on. I said nothing about skin color, only Obama.
We should start.
So is there something wrong with preferring your own people, your own family, or your own car color?
In other words, a turd.
Yeah I was commenting on it. Was not disagreeing with you.
He has that same I-Hate-America-and-Everything-To-Do-With-It look that Obama always wears.
He looks like he may have some Indian in him, not native American Indian, but Indian from India.
While I agree that the percentage of whites continues to drop (at least until Trump takes office), the percentage of VOTERS who are white will be 70% this election season. Still a VERY HIGH number, although it has been dropping.
Of the 19 candidates in both parties, ONLY ONE CANDIDATE has made an appeal to the concerns of those 70%...which is why we’re looking at a potential LANDSLIDE this November.
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