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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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According to this nice professor, you mean old conservative bigots led the charge against Hillary because you really wanted to discriminate against the Royal Idiot ... and it hurt his feelings ... and he wants you to stop ... or else!

1 posted on 12/14/2016 8:07:43 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Bow tie wearing ugly, sour pussed mother ####er.

THAT’S a face someone would want to punch. Not me. But someone.

I’m a pacifist :)


2 posted on 12/14/2016 8:10:05 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Zakeet

Wow—that’s sooo original. Never heard that before....


3 posted on 12/14/2016 8:10:23 PM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Leon Botstein: a true Leftwing Hatriot.


4 posted on 12/14/2016 8:10:24 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Zakeet

“White America” Divide and conquer. Stop this racist crap. Go away liberal pundits; you have nothing new to say and get a new playbook morons.


5 posted on 12/14/2016 8:11:09 PM PST by Fungi (Having my fungus and eating it too.)
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To: Zakeet

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


6 posted on 12/14/2016 8:11:13 PM PST by Chumdad
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To: Zakeet

Obama more to exacerbate racism than the K.K.K. ever did.


7 posted on 12/14/2016 8:12:08 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: All

You haven’t learned why you lost..... which is why, I believe, that you will NEVER figure it out. Keep name-calling. It seems to be working so well for you.


8 posted on 12/14/2016 8:12:15 PM PST by Klemper
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To: Zakeet

There’s nothing “white” about inalienable rights.


9 posted on 12/14/2016 8:12:44 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Them. Up.)
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To: Zakeet

Good, we should be racist after the stupidity of the last 8 years. He was elected by racists.


10 posted on 12/14/2016 8:13:11 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Zakeet

It was mostly about retaining the rule of law by the citizen, for the citizens.

The other party wanted to abandon the rule of law ands surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.


11 posted on 12/14/2016 8:13:26 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: dp0622

I’m not.
At first I just shrugged these loons of, but now they really are starting to grate me.


12 posted on 12/14/2016 8:13:32 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Chumdad

He has an unbalanced mind, too.


13 posted on 12/14/2016 8:14:26 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 8, 2016..... Donald Trump schlongs Hillary Clinton. 306 Electoral Votes)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It was mostly about retaining the rule of law by the citizens, for the citizens.

The other party wanted to abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.


14 posted on 12/14/2016 8:15:52 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: manc

Fellow boxer? :) Late teens to mid 20’s here. I’m 48 now.


15 posted on 12/14/2016 8:15:54 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Zakeet

Sheriff Joe to show the world Thursday that hussein soetoro is a FAKE.


16 posted on 12/14/2016 8:16:23 PM PST by biggredd1
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To: Zakeet

Whites voted against Hussein’s jomama.


17 posted on 12/14/2016 8:16:47 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Zakeet

Another self-loathing white beta male....yawn.


18 posted on 12/14/2016 8:16:56 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Zakeet

[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.]

In case this idiot forgot, Obama wasn’t running for reelection. The so-called “elite” was on the shit list this cycle. It had nothing to do with race. Just the middle class tired of getting shellacked from both sides in that corrupt dump called Washington, DC.


19 posted on 12/14/2016 8:17:10 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Zakeet

I didn’t know that Barack Obama was running again this year.


20 posted on 12/14/2016 8:18:04 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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