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I don't think you give a damn about racism or the lives of black people. Growing up in the American Southeast, I lived hand in glove with black people. We work together, live in the same neighborhoods, send our kids to school together, pray together and manage to do our best each day without calling each other ugly names. You have no interest in racial conciliation or healing. What you want is to weaponize race to deploy it against those you consider your enemies.
I was in Albuquerque and Santa Fe this spring and I honestly don't remember seeing more than a handful of black people. That's no surprise considering that of the 50 states, New Mexico is 40 in terms of African American residents. That means you get to demonstrate your moral superiority and racial openness by going days without seeing one of the mere 42 thousand black people living in your state.
As such, you've not had to make any real effort to live with and accommodate people different from you. And until you have as we in the American South do every single day, your virtuous posing impresses no one. I can only imagine the terror someone like you from such a lilly white place as New Mexico would feel walking about neighborhoods in East Atlanta, Miami or Columbia. If you cared about racism more than you did about feeding your immense hate and envy, you would know as we in the Southeast know, that to throw that term around as carelessly as you invites this evil into our lives.
All humans are racists in some ways and to some degree, but many not-unusually-racist “white” people who perceive Clinton's corruption, now see Trump as the only game in town thanks to HRC and Democrats like you. In refusing to resist the temptation to try and sway the undecided by equating support for Trump with racism full-stop, you and those like you have opened a Pandora's box of horror. In seeking to mainstream the slander that all Trump voters are unrepentant racists, it leaves those who are already committed, those who are unwilling to abandon Trump or to stomach Clinton, little choice but to own what you’ve accused them.
You and those idiots like you have made "racist" the new "queer." The same daring, transgressional psychology that for gay people converted an insult into a durable token of identity will inevitably persuade a people who otherwise would not have challenged the social taboo surrounding racism to accept the epithet with defiant equanimity or even to embrace it. And all of that is on HRC and folks like you. You will own that until the last days.
For in so carelessly and maliciously slandering your neighbors and fellow citizens as racists you will realize all that you claim to detest. In and of itself, that will make America’s already deeply ugly racial politics uglier still. It will justify the further pathologization of the white underclass you so despise. It is selfish and self-serving as it does nothing at all to help communities of color except to set us all at one another’s throats.
Of course, this seems to me to be the plan - divide low status whites and blacks so they cannot make common cause and see their common interests against people like you. This divide and conquer strategy is the preferred tactic of the imperialist, the slave master and the tyrant and you play it as well as anyone. Your efforts and those like you, to set Americans agaist each other will also serve as yet another convenient excuse for beneficiaries of economic stratification based on political largess to blame the victim.
Your counterfeit virtue comes free and without effort and so is worth nothing. Frankly, you disgust me and I wear your hatred like a badge of honor
Originally posted by santafe2
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I was in Albuquerque and Santa Fe this spring and I honestly don't remember seeing more than a handful of black people. That's no surprise considering that of the 50 states, New Mexico is 40 in terms of African American residents. That means you get to demonstrate your moral superiority and racial openness by going days without seeing one of the mere 42 thousand black people living in your state.
As such, you've not had to make any real effort to live with and accommodate people different from you. And until you have as we in the American South do every single day, your virtuous posing impresses no one. I can only imagine the terror someone like you from such a lilly white place as New Mexico would feel walking about neighborhoods in East Atlanta, Miami or Columbia. If you cared about racism more than you did about feeding your immense hate and envy, you would know as we in the Southeast know, that to throw that term around as carelessly as you invites this evil into our lives.
All humans are racists in some ways and to some degree, but many not-unusually-racist “white” people who perceive Clinton's corruption, now see Trump as the only game in town thanks to HRC and Democrats like you. In refusing to resist the temptation to try and sway the undecided by equating support for Trump with racism full-stop, you and those like you have opened a Pandora's box of horror. In seeking to mainstream the slander that all Trump voters are unrepentant racists, it leaves those who are already committed, those who are unwilling to abandon Trump or to stomach Clinton, little choice but to own what you’ve accused them.
You and those idiots like you have made "racist" the new "queer." The same daring, transgressional psychology that for gay people converted an insult into a durable token of identity will inevitably persuade a people who otherwise would not have challenged the social taboo surrounding racism to accept the epithet with defiant equanimity or even to embrace it. And all of that is on HRC and folks like you. You will own that until the last days.
For in so carelessly and maliciously slandering your neighbors and fellow citizens as racists you will realize all that you claim to detest. In and of itself, that will make America’s already deeply ugly racial politics uglier still. It will justify the further pathologization of the white underclass you so despise. It is selfish and self-serving as it does nothing at all to help communities of color except to set us all at one another’s throats.
Of course, this seems to me to be the plan - divide low status whites and blacks so they cannot make common cause and see their common interests against people like you. This divide and conquer strategy is the preferred tactic of the imperialist, the slave master and the tyrant and you play it as well as anyone. Your efforts and those like you, to set Americans agaist each other will also serve as yet another convenient excuse for beneficiaries of economic stratification based on political largess to blame the victim.
Your counterfeit virtue comes free and without effort and so is worth nothing. Frankly, you disgust me and I wear your hatred like a badge of honor
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