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.
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Wait. The left called people racist for disagreeing with them. How oroginial.
He looks like Levin’s saner brother.
Oh, for the Sake of Pete
“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.”
This man has a very skewed view of the American public. This is true because the day black Americans achieve parity in achievements with other Americans is the day racial discrimination will die. A majority of Americans want to see this so called parity of achievement. It is desired so badly that affirmative action was made into law.
More fake news. White people voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Obama wasn’t running in 2016, so white people didn’t vote for him. They voted for a white male who was running against a white female. Ergo, concludes this numbnuts, whites are racist.
Why waste time on our website expressing views of a phucking idiot like this moron
“History of success”?
Yeah, right . . .
I thought America wasn’t ready for a woman President. I’m so confused.
He’s almost a George Soros look-alike.
I believe most liberals fell on their heads off the monkey bars when they were kids.
This jerkoff is....a real jerkoff. “targeted resentment against the recent history of success by Americans of color”.
He’s just completely making this shit up to make him feel all pajama-boy.
Racism because? Because his racism lost and he’s all poopy pants about it so he projects it on winners.
I was voting against the legacy of Jimmy Carter II, a red diaper doper baby Marxist with a chip on his anti-American shoulder.
The insanity induced by liberalism raises it’s ugly head every single day.
I’m sorry. I don’t have so-called “white guilt”’
Sounds like the author is describing himself.
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