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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 16, 2020, 11:11 pm
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HTML https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/11/12/a-memo-to-president-elect-biden-dont-coddle-white-racial-anxieties/
[quote]when many politicians and pundits talk about healing a
divided nation, they create false equivalencies between the
supposed “radical left” and historic white supremacist
organizations. This will not set the table for understanding,
nor will coddling the “white rage” that is often
mischaracterized as economic anxiety. Healing isn’t about giving
people more time to make themselves ready to accept policies
that advance racial equity.[/quote]
Finally more people understand what I have been saying for
years, namely that it is a mistake to attribute racism to
economic anxiety.
[quote]Liberals and conservatives aren’t necessarily divided by
their respective political philosophies; the wedge is racism.
For instance, Black and Latino or Hispanic Americans go to
church more other racial groups; on the surface level, this
might make one assume they vote more Republican, like white
evangelicals. But those church-going people of color vote
overwhelming Democratic. Republicans would probably have many
more Black and Latino or Hispanic members if the leader of the
party didn’t
conflate white nationalists with racial justice activists.
Even the supposed divide between urban and rural America isn’t
hurting the country as bad as racism. After the 2016 election
was called in favor of Trump, it didn’t take long for analysts
to declare that Democrats needed to better understand and
empathize with rural voters and the working class—as if there
are no Black and brown working-class people living in small
towns. What’s destructive about these takes is the unstated
assumption that the country can’t heal if white Americans aren’t
accommodated first.
If Biden is to truly heal a divided country, he should not
coddle white racial anxieties rooted in a perceived loss of
status and privilege. Policy should not be built on how it may
assuage or enflame these pathologies. Americans—particularly
those who are Black, Native American, Asian American, and Latino
or Hispanic—have little use for policymaking that’s distracted
by the threat of a racist backlash. Being a president to all
Americans means not centering white grievances rooted in false
notions of superiority.
...
The recent calls for unity shouldn’t confuse us. Racism isn’t to
be negotiated with; it’s to be scrubbed from our policies.
Certainly, all Americans must have a say, and the president must
acknowledge every voice. However, giving attention to the
perceived loss of racial superiority isn’t going to heal a
divided country. That can only come by dismantling the racist
policies that built up such division in the first place.[/quote]
Exactly. Unity requires removing those who do not want unity.
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: November 17, 2020, 4:02 pm
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Let's talk about reuniting the country and unity....
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxneZbFZzko
[quote]You do not compromise with the most fear based irrational
people in the room.... [/quote]
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 20, 2020, 11:01 pm
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HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/opinion/trump-supporters.html
[quote]‘Reach Out to Trump Supporters,’ They Said. I Tried. I
give up.
Seventy-three million Americans voted for Donald Trump. He
doubled down on all his worst vices, and he was rewarded for it
with 10 million more votes than he received in 2016.
The majority of people of color rejected his cruelty and
vulgarity. But along with others who voted for Joe Biden, we are
now being lectured by a chorus of voices, including Pete
Buttigieg and Ian Bremmer, to “reach out” to Trump voters and
“empathize” with their pain.
This is the same advice that was given after Mr. Trump’s 2016
victory, and for nearly four years I attempted to take it.
Believe me, it’s not worth it.
...
I’ve even tried and failed to have productive conversations with
Muslims who voted for Mr. Trump. Some love him for the tax cuts.
Others listen only to Fox News, say “both sides” are the same,
or believe he hasn’t bombed Muslim countries. (They’re wrong.)
Many believe they are the “good immigrants,” as they chase
whiteness and run away from Blackness, all the way to the
suburbs. I can’t make people realize they have Black and brown
skin and will never be accepted as white.
I did my part. What was my reward? Listening to Mr. Trump’s base
chant, “Send her back!” in reference to Representative Ilhan
Omar, a Black Muslim woman, who came to America as a refugee. I
saw the Republican Party transform the McCloskeys into victims,
even though the wealthy St. Louis couple illegally brandished
firearms against peaceful B.L.M. protesters. Their bellicosity
was rewarded with a prime-time slot at the Republican National
Convention, where they warned about “chaos” in the suburbs being
invaded by people of color. Their speech would have fit well in
“The Birth of a Nation."
We cannot help people who refuse to help themselves. Mr. Trump
is an extension of their id, their culture, their values, their
greed. He is their defender and savior. He is their blunt
instrument. He is their destructive drug of choice.[/quote]
In other words, if we do not expect to be able to persuade Trump
himself to admit he is wrong, we should no more expect to be
able to persuade Trump supporters to admit they are wrong. More
and more people are understanding this now:
HTML https://twitter.com/Judson4Congress/status/1329435562751750152
[quote]Reach Out to Trump Supporters?
"Trumpism" is simply "permission" to be the WORST possible
version of oneself.
To be a complete and utter disgrace to humanity, with ZERO
feelings of responsibility to the Society in which one
lives.[/quote]
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HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnMw80HUUAAbmdw?format=jpg&name=medium[/img]
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 30, 2020, 4:37 am
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The worst-case scenario:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzTxdTHm00
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: November 30, 2020, 2:00 pm
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What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers
[quote]Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I
spent weeks living inside two of them.[/quote]
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/facebook-disinformation-boomers.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: January 12, 2021, 1:58 am
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Baratunde Thurston: Black Americans Consistently Show Up For
This Nation
[quote]Baratunde Thurston explains how Black Americans show up
for America and implores Republicans and other Americans 'join
us because we've been fighting this a long time.'[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui4ggewTTGg
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: January 24, 2021, 2:21 pm
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Dr. Anthony Fauci: Divisiveness has failed America "in every
single way"
[quote]"Sunday Morning" senior contributor Ted Koppel talks
about the latest efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic
with the Biden administration's chief medical advisor, Dr.
Anthony Fauci, who says the goal of 100 million vaccinations in
100 days is entirely achievable. Fauci also discusses how
politicization of public health measures (like wearing masks),
mixed messaging from the Trump White House, and claims that
COVID-19 is a hoax have thwarted America's efforts to limit the
pandemic's toll.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S88_IByZsDM
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 25, 2021, 11:44 pm
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The most important aspect to uniting Americans is to have no
hesitation about excluding those who do not consider themselves
Americans. Our enemies officially do not consider themselves
Americans (or, for that matter, Canadians, Australians, etc.),
as they themselves make clear with their new terminology which
exposes beyond any doubt their true allegiance:
HTML https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/01/25/saving-the-white-race-the-problem-and-solutions-part-1-of-3/
[quote]This is what has happened since the 1960s in all the
countries of Northwest Europe and the New Europes founded and
primarily settled by Northwest Europeans. Australia changed its
laws to promote non-White immigration and multiracialism in
1973, Sweden in 1975, Canada in 1976. By the 1996 census, twenty
years later, Canada had gone from less than 1% “visible (i.e.,
non-White) minorities” to 11.2%, or 3.2 million of a population
of 28.5 million, and then in the 2016 census to 22.3% non-White,
or 7.7 million of a population of 34.5 million, a 240% increase
in twenty years. By 2020 Australia’s 3.2 million post-1973
non-indigenous non-Whites were 12.5% of its population. In the
same year European Whites were already a minority of the U.S.
population under the age of thirty, and the broader category of
“whites” (i.e., including semi and non-European Caucasians) were
projected to become a minority of the total population around
2043
...
So like the New Europe of the United States, the other New
Europes of Canada and Australia, along with the populations of
Western Europe can no longer be accurately described as racially
English, Irish, etc., but as multiracial populations. Their
governments no longer serve the interests of their native
populations but those of the rapidly growing non-White
populations that are replacing them.[/quote]
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: guest5 Date: January 26, 2021, 12:09 am
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I don't think a lot of people believe us when we tell them that
these "whites" are LITERALLY Western colonialists. Perhaps those
who know of the horrors of Western colonialism think to
themselves far to often something along the lines of, "nah,
can't be. Western colonialism ended with the Colonial Era."? No,
the "white" tribe is LITERALLY Western colonialist!!! Just read
what they say among themselves, we are not lying to you!
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Re: Uniting Americans
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 26, 2021, 12:22 am
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Exactly:
HTML https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/01/biden-is-already-making-your-life-worse/
[quote]Based on my 0.1 percent Hispanic heritage, I’m going to
say I’m a castizo on all government and medical documents. I
speak enough Spanish to get by. I identify with the heroes of
the Reconquista, the conquistadors who brought European
civilization to the Americas[/quote]
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