The hardest truth to face for racist white America

[malaise]

is that given the same opportunities, no race is superior to another.
Until that sinks in, there will be support for white supremacy and fascism.
The facts are readily available so now they want to hide the facts.

[Johonny]

1. Im reading White Rural Rage right now

Until they demand actual representation of policy instead of representation of fake outrage, they're screwed. They were always racist, but they used to demand clean air, water etc . . .

[malaise]

2. A close friend went to University with a rural white American

They have been close for close to 50 years - he explained it well for all of us. Sadly the first premise is that they are superior no matter what and no non-white should be doing better than them.
That said corporations and their politicians and judges have effed up rural life big time.

[redqueen]

5. Sadly the devastation of rural life is then blamed on

'illegals' and the 'urban centers'.

We have seen this same playbook used again and again.

[malaise]

7. Dems need o point out how the corporations

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have replaced rural folks with cheap labor or kids.
The refusal tot pay living wages and provide basic benefits is a global crisis.
The rural and urban poor will one day realize that they are both facing the same problems.

[redqueen]

8. "The rural and urban poor will one day realize that they are both facing the same problems"

And that day cannot come soon enough!

[KPN]

11. Yep, it's almost all about money. Sure, rural whites have prejudices, but big money preyed

on and continues to use those prejudices for their own purpose -- insatiable wealth building.

[usonian]

3. Racism is taught!

And very well, indeed. It's not inherent.

A big human failing us to blame others, that is: project one's fears, weaknesses and failures onto others.

Another is to believe the bullshit that manipulators feed people, namely that the hardships that THEY imposed on people through wretched wages, union-busting and insane wealth concentration via welfare for the rich is the fault of some minority group.

6 states are majority-minority already, and this just ups the ante for the manipulators.

[malaise]

4. Well said

Rec

[SoFlaBro]

6. Here's how to sniff a racist fuckstain"Are White people inherently good? Are black people predisposed to violent crime?"

They give themselves the fuck away every time.

[DownriverDem]

9. Clearly I see it &

I"m white. MAGAs want to return to the 1950s. Think about it. Our country was less diverse then & women had less rights. No wonder MAGAs are mostly white & male. It will be interesting to see if less white women vote for trump this time.

[malaise]

10. Some of them would like to go right back to slavery

not the 50s

[AllaN01Bear]

12. dark ages .

[AllaN01Bear]

13. ever since i was little and a young man in the 60s i heard this nonsense .

[Delmette2.0]

14. Found in my Father's keepsakes.

You have each been given a bag of tools,
a formless rock and a book of rules
and each must make, ere life has flown
A stumbling block or stepping stone


The post you presented Malaise reminded me of it.

[malaise]

15. In song - builders for eternity

[PortTack]

19. Oh that is so dear! I'm going to bookmark so I remember when needed to make stepping stones out of

Stumbling blocks!

[H2O Man]

16. Recommended.

[Bundbuster]

17. Racists must ignore your "given the same opportunities" qualifier

or their whole premise of white supremacy collapses. Murcan white supremacy and white privilege stand entirely on the denial that Black Americans have been generationally disadvantaged, oppressed, and throttled for 400 years in their ability to gain an equal footing. In a recent poll, 67% of republicans answered that whites suffer more prejudice than Blacks in murca.

This is at the heart of republicans' grotesque machinations to silence or whitewash the teaching of Black history in schools. To me, this is the sound of disease & dying of an unjust empire, and I await its demise with the joy of liberation.

[malaise]

18. Great post

Rec