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What have we learned during the past 4 years?
I learned that racism is still very strong in America. And what's worse is those who support and enable racism to continue actually get offended when they are held to account.
What are you supporting when you support trump? He called Mexicans rapists, he's still trying to suppress votes in black communities this morning. He defended racism at Charlotte but people want pull up his transcripts and argue about context. The context was him defending the right for confederate monuments built decades after the war to symbolize white supremacy, to remain standing as a visible memory of one of history's most painful atrocities. He chose to defend the confederacy but call black football players SOB'S for practicing their first amendment rights.
He creates a new FBI category to go after black advocacy groups while taking white supremacists off the terrorist watch list. You have to twist his arm in a 45 degree angle to get him to denounce white supremacist groups, but needs no help calling out BLM. Folks, these are examples of racism. If you oppose racism, you oppose trump.
Aversive racism simply put, is when you say you are not racist but are opposed anything that progresses black interests or interest of people of color. trump tells you that he's the least racist you know but he ended racial sensitivity training calling it unamerican. That's an example of aversive racism. This ain't 1960 and racism ain't done like it was then. If that's what you're looking for, you'll find the whites only signs on the billboards at the centaur races.
So what have we learned? I see a nation where part of one population subset does not want to lose the advantages they gave themselves to such an extent that they are trying to re elect a man who was impeached. A man who mismanaged a pandemic so badly that the nation with the most resources and finest medical experts on earth, has the most infections and deaths in the world, who has created havoc and mayhem among the people.
This man has fucked up our country and yet there are people wanting this to continue.
The last four years were a test. America failed.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?,” said Donald Trump almost six years ago. “It’s, like, incredible.”
Indeed it is. But how about if he shot a quarter of a million people? Would that lose him any voters?
Apparently not.
I learned that racism is still very strong in America. And what's worse is those who support and enable racism to continue actually get offended when they are held to account.
What are you supporting when you support trump? He called Mexicans rapists, he's still trying to suppress votes in black communities this morning. He defended racism at Charlotte but people want pull up his transcripts and argue about context. The context was him defending the right for confederate monuments built decades after the war to symbolize white supremacy, to remain standing as a visible memory of one of history's most painful atrocities. He chose to defend the confederacy but call black football players SOB'S for practicing their first amendment rights.
He creates a new FBI category to go after black advocacy groups while taking white supremacists off the terrorist watch list. You have to twist his arm in a 45 degree angle to get him to denounce white supremacist groups, but needs no help calling out BLM. Folks, these are examples of racism. If you oppose racism, you oppose trump.
Aversive racism simply put, is when you say you are not racist but are opposed anything that progresses black interests or interest of people of color. trump tells you that he's the least racist you know but he ended racial sensitivity training calling it unamerican. That's an example of aversive racism. This ain't 1960 and racism ain't done like it was then. If that's what you're looking for, you'll find the whites only signs on the billboards at the centaur races.
So what have we learned? I see a nation where part of one population subset does not want to lose the advantages they gave themselves to such an extent that they are trying to re elect a man who was impeached. A man who mismanaged a pandemic so badly that the nation with the most resources and finest medical experts on earth, has the most infections and deaths in the world, who has created havoc and mayhem among the people.
This man has fucked up our country and yet there are people wanting this to continue.
The last four years were a test. America failed.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?,” said Donald Trump almost six years ago. “It’s, like, incredible.”
Indeed it is. But how about if he shot a quarter of a million people? Would that lose him any voters?
Apparently not.
