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Excellent article and history
Racist sentiments often coexist with a mythologized past of a pure America inhabited only by white Christian people. In this myth, the white Christians have a God-sanctioned privilege to the land in which laws were designed by white people, enforced by white people, and intended for the harmonious white citizenship. In the past year, we’ve heard the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, say: “We can bring the American Dream back. That I will tell you. We’re bringing it back.” At the same time, we’ve heard his inflammatory rhetoric against numerous ethnic and religious groups, and seen his discriminatory practices against black people in his rentals and casinos.
How Trump Trades on Nostalgia for a Mythic White America
Racist sentiments often coexist with a mythologized past of a pure America inhabited only by white Christian people. In this myth, the white Christians have a God-sanctioned privilege to the land in which laws were designed by white people, enforced by white people, and intended for the harmonious white citizenship. In the past year, we’ve heard the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, say: “We can bring the American Dream back. That I will tell you. We’re bringing it back.” At the same time, we’ve heard his inflammatory rhetoric against numerous ethnic and religious groups, and seen his discriminatory practices against black people in his rentals and casinos.
How Trump Trades on Nostalgia for a Mythic White America