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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Yep were racists. Now what ya’ gonna do?
Nothing.
*not bother to deny this dumb ass charge any longer.
No matter how many times I look at Hillary Clinton, she still seems like an old honkey to me.
All assertions, no evidence = Fake News
Great comment!
The Bell Curve went full circle.
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
More Leftist drivel.
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?
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.
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.
The communists, socialists, and preference crowd would absolutely explode if Trump were to abolish gender, race and all other preferences for jobs and schooling!
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.
The list could go on but it's a start....
Another geek with his nose out of joint...
I guess it had nothing to do with the past eight years of being afloat on the rudderless ship courtesy of the democrat party?
I bet he doesn’t care much for Ben Carson, or Herman Cain...
Really? Because it just HAS to be skin color. Ideology couldn't possibly have anything to do with it.
What a putz
The other party wanted to abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.
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I think they accomplished that mission in 2008 and again in 2012.
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
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