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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

Missed that one by a mile, Prof.

It was not against Obama; it was against the policies of Obama in his fundamental changing of America.

Prof, you need to get out of the ivory tower occasionally. Then, you might learn more about flyover country and the mood of the nation.
21 posted on 12/14/2016 8:18:57 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Graybeard58
Obama more to exacerbate racism than the K.K.K. ever did.

Wow, I have read some dumb things on here over the years, but this one pretty much tops the list.
22 posted on 12/14/2016 8:19:43 PM PST by mcjordansc
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To: Zakeet

Wait. The left called people racist for disagreeing with them. How oroginial.


23 posted on 12/14/2016 8:19:43 PM PST by matt04
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To: Zakeet

He looks like Levin’s saner brother.


24 posted on 12/14/2016 8:19:45 PM PST by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: Zakeet
"It is precisely the parity in the achievements of black Americans, those who have become CEOs, scholars, scientists, artists, doctors, lawyers and politicians . . . "

But they keep insisting that they HAVEN'T achieved parity.
25 posted on 12/14/2016 8:20:02 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Zakeet

A successful and hard-working white majority is the absolute BEST thing to happen to black people in this country.
This self-hating journalist can move to *any* country in Africa that he prefers. He can write us postcards to keep us updated.

26 posted on 12/14/2016 8:20:15 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Zakeet

27 posted on 12/14/2016 8:20:27 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: Zakeet

Oh, for the Sake of Pete


28 posted on 12/14/2016 8:20:50 PM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: Zakeet

“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.


29 posted on 12/14/2016 8:21:00 PM PST by rgboomers (This space purposely left blank)
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To: Zakeet

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.


30 posted on 12/14/2016 8:21:57 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Zakeet

Why waste time on our website expressing views of a phucking idiot like this moron


31 posted on 12/14/2016 8:22:33 PM PST by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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To: Zakeet

“History of success”?

Yeah, right . . .


32 posted on 12/14/2016 8:22:42 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: Zakeet

I thought America wasn’t ready for a woman President. I’m so confused.


33 posted on 12/14/2016 8:22:57 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: dp0622

He’s almost a George Soros look-alike.


34 posted on 12/14/2016 8:23:17 PM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Zakeet

I believe most liberals fell on their heads off the monkey bars when they were kids.


35 posted on 12/14/2016 8:23:41 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Zakeet

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.


36 posted on 12/14/2016 8:23:52 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Zakeet

I was voting against the legacy of Jimmy Carter II, a red diaper doper baby Marxist with a chip on his anti-American shoulder.


37 posted on 12/14/2016 8:24:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Zakeet

The insanity induced by liberalism raises it’s ugly head every single day.


38 posted on 12/14/2016 8:27:39 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Zakeet

I’m sorry. I don’t have so-called “white guilt”’


39 posted on 12/14/2016 8:27:58 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: Zakeet

Sounds like the author is describing himself.


40 posted on 12/14/2016 8:29:04 PM PST by funfan
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