Posted on 11/09/2016 5:59:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
The virus, and fear, took over the U.S. on Nov. 8, and this is how we ended up with Donald Trump as president-elect.
The only photograph I have with James Alan McPherson is from the beginning of the Obama era; it turned out to be far more symbolic than I could have imagined.
In the picture, Jims students flank him, a fairly mixed group of mostly smiling faces: three white women, two black men, a black woman, a Korean-American man, a white man. The lone white man in the workshop was named Roman, and his arm is crisscrossed with mine behind Jims back: my left hand perched on Jims left shoulder, Romans right hand on Jims right shoulder. It seemed, at the time, a picture of true American unificationblack and white overlapping in an intimate embrace of the first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
There was, at the time we posed for that picture, a current of energy and hope that infused my perception of the world around me. The election of a black man with an African father and a nontraditional name engendered in many of us what Bomani Jones recently deemed a qualified optimism: Just maybe if youre so good at what you do, in spite of that contempt, people might be willing to vote for youor, on the more local scale, to support you regardless of your background or skin color when you demonstrate talent and ability.
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“This is the pc bs special, privileged class crap that must end.”
Or what??
See any whites defending themselves from these attacks? As long as we take it, they’ll keep dishing it out.
Communist filth is a cancer on this nation and must be purged. 90+ years of influence is too damn much.
I see non-white people on Facebook all asserting now they will have to look over their shoulders and keep one eye open to avoid being lynched or assaulted.
I’d be willing to bet $100 that a white man of moderate build wearing a Trump t-shirt would be a much bigger target for physical assault this week what with 200+ communist fueled marches and riots being staged in this Country by MoveOn.Censure.
Odd that this person should say this, when he had to overlook an utter lack of qualifications in order to vote for Obama.
I think the "whiteness" that he is railing against here is not the race so much as the qualities that people adopt in order to achieve success in life, such as the willingness to work hard and sacrifice in order to secure a better tomorrow. People like this author equate those qualities to white people, when, in reality, anyone of any race can adopt them and succeed.
The “virus” may have to become malignant in order to preserve itself if these idiots have their way.
Words of a lunatic.
bump
I never saw any proof that he was talented OR able. Just a smooth talker when reading from a teleprompter. On his own, he mumbles, stuffers and falls into jive talk, trying to act as if he, too, were raised in da ‘hood instead of being schooled at HI’s most exclusive private school. Phony from the git go.
LOL!
I got the fever, and the only cure is more cowbell!!!
This entire website “The Root”, I support free speech but damn......this psychotic racist garbage is trying to incite rioting and murder.
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