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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

Yep were racists. Now what ya’ gonna do?

Nothing.

*not bother to deny this dumb ass charge any longer.


61 posted on 12/14/2016 11:15:16 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Zakeet

No matter how many times I look at Hillary Clinton, she still seems like an old honkey to me.


62 posted on 12/14/2016 11:21:06 PM PST by RonnG
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To: tumblindice

All assertions, no evidence = Fake News


63 posted on 12/15/2016 1:17:50 AM 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

64 posted on 12/15/2016 1:19:13 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Chumdad

Great comment!


65 posted on 12/15/2016 1:21:15 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Zakeet

The Bell Curve went full circle.


66 posted on 12/15/2016 1:23:09 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: dp0622

Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.


67 posted on 12/15/2016 1:26:31 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Zakeet

More Leftist drivel.


68 posted on 12/15/2016 1:27:24 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Zakeet

English has become a foreign language across growing swaths of America, and this dude thinks concern about immigration is driven by hostility to black people?


69 posted on 12/15/2016 2:12:20 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Rastus

LOL! I hate to say it, but that’s funny on SO many levels. Levin, as smart as he is, has gone off the rails.


70 posted on 12/15/2016 3:29:12 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Freedom Trumps Fascism)
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To: Zakeet

Was Obama on the ballot?

Funny—I didn’t see his name.

Then again, I live in Florida and we’re notorious for our ballot problems.


71 posted on 12/15/2016 3:46:05 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Zakeet
Racism today is simply discrimination against white males and talking about whites dying off as a goal in America.

The communists, socialists, and preference crowd would absolutely explode if Trump were to abolish gender, race and all other preferences for jobs and schooling!

72 posted on 12/15/2016 4:28:22 AM PST by Jumper
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To: MonicaG

It was kind of an inside joke for those who know me.

I have a horrific temper and even at 48 it still goes off.

You were in Vietnam. Yeesh.


73 posted on 12/15/2016 4:42:52 AM 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
Yep - I'm a typical White Racist. Grew up in a predominantly Black neighborhood for first 9 years and called them our friends - until the race riots of the '60s where we were attacked by them but never attacked any of them. Never called one "nigger" to his/her face but been called honky/white-bread and other terms they consider slurs to Whites.

The list could go on but it's a start....

74 posted on 12/15/2016 4:43:06 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Zakeet

Another geek with his nose out of joint...


75 posted on 12/15/2016 4:46:52 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Zakeet

I guess it had nothing to do with the past eight years of being afloat on the rudderless ship courtesy of the democrat party?


76 posted on 12/15/2016 5:41:36 AM PST by Garvin (The Fourth Estate is The Fifth Column.)
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To: Zakeet

I bet he doesn’t care much for Ben Carson, or Herman Cain...


77 posted on 12/15/2016 6:56:52 AM PST by brianr10
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To: Zakeet
...resentment against the recent history of success by Americans of color.

Really? Because it just HAS to be skin color. Ideology couldn't possibly have anything to do with it.

What a putz

78 posted on 12/15/2016 7:23:01 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The other party wanted to abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I think they accomplished that mission in 2008 and again in 2012.


79 posted on 12/15/2016 10:26:49 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Make nice with your enemies and you will live to regret it.)
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To: dp0622

Sorry, dp, that was a funny quote from The Big Lebowski, where Vietnam Vet Walter (played by John Goodman), had just been told that another character was a Pacifist. Your post reminded me of that.

I was born in ‘72! ;-D


80 posted on 12/22/2016 1:08:25 PM PST by MonicaG (God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
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