jimnyc
11-12-2020, 02:28 PM
The left has a serious racism issue. No matter the issue, things always end up with someone being a racist. They have been using this tool & saying it so often and to so many people & for so long - that they now do see racism everywhere. And not because it's there but rather because it's just like a natural response now. "Ummm parrot, polly wanna cracker, what, you racist!"
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On Election Night, American Racism Was Quantified
And it’s worse than we thought. But at least we know what we’re dealing with, and I’m starting now.
Lest someone deem me a pessimist or, worse, a fatalist, I shall begin on a note of optimism: My mother, a Black woman who was born in Alabama near the inception of the civil-rights movement, voted for the first time in more than three damn decades.
Three!
Be that as it may, the vote tally in the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. confirmed for me that we do not have, nor have we ever had, anything resembling a United States of America, affirmed for me that for a multitude of people who believe they are white, the Civil War is not some bygone lost cause but a perennial imperative to secure their supremacy—a calling they heed even if it harms large numbers of them, even, goddamnyoume, if the ultimate expense is their (and our) assured extinction.
To understand what I feel about 2020, I must recollect the election of 2016, back when I was a professor at NYU, slugged the morning after into my favorite diner on campus, ordered my waffles, and sat crestfallen in a booth. The servers, most of them Turkish immigrants, were not only not dejected by the results, they were bopping around the restaurant with wide-ass grins. The source of their levity was confirmed when one of them nudged the banker type in the booth ahead of me. “Heey, Trump. You vote for Trumpp? he said and flashed a thumbs-up. The man smirked and nodded yes.
Rest - https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34629033/2020-election-trump-voters-racist/
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On Election Night, American Racism Was Quantified
And it’s worse than we thought. But at least we know what we’re dealing with, and I’m starting now.
Lest someone deem me a pessimist or, worse, a fatalist, I shall begin on a note of optimism: My mother, a Black woman who was born in Alabama near the inception of the civil-rights movement, voted for the first time in more than three damn decades.
Three!
Be that as it may, the vote tally in the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. confirmed for me that we do not have, nor have we ever had, anything resembling a United States of America, affirmed for me that for a multitude of people who believe they are white, the Civil War is not some bygone lost cause but a perennial imperative to secure their supremacy—a calling they heed even if it harms large numbers of them, even, goddamnyoume, if the ultimate expense is their (and our) assured extinction.
To understand what I feel about 2020, I must recollect the election of 2016, back when I was a professor at NYU, slugged the morning after into my favorite diner on campus, ordered my waffles, and sat crestfallen in a booth. The servers, most of them Turkish immigrants, were not only not dejected by the results, they were bopping around the restaurant with wide-ass grins. The source of their levity was confirmed when one of them nudged the banker type in the booth ahead of me. “Heey, Trump. You vote for Trumpp? he said and flashed a thumbs-up. The man smirked and nodded yes.
Rest - https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34629033/2020-election-trump-voters-racist/