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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"No one's looking out for the white guy anymore."
Are Trump supporters THIS willfully stupid?"I mean, it seems like we really go overboard to make sure all these other nationalities nowadays and colors have their fair shake of it, but no one's looking out for the white guy anymore," he said.
Among Trump supporters, suspicion and anger toward the Black Lives Matter movement run deep. These people say the group's name and slogan seem to convey that black lives are more important than white lives.
"I think it's bulls---," said Ziegler, the 61-year-old diehard Trump fan who attended his Columbus, Ohio, rally. "All lives matter. You know this is bulls---- about black lives matter -- doesn't all lives matter?"
It's the last word in Trump's now-ubiquitous campaign slogan -- "Make America Great Again" -- that seems to have touched a nerve. Recent polls show that white people increasingly feel that the American Dream is out of reach, and a sizable group of white Americans feel they are subjected to racial discrimination -- a perception of the white experience shared by few minorities.
Almost half of whites -- 47% -- said in a November CNN/Kaiser Family Foundation survey that there is discrimination against whites, far more than the share of blacks and Hispanics who said the same.
And just over half of whites said they did not support the Black Lives Matter movement. Whereas 86% of blacks said the justice system was tilted toward white people, only 48% of whites said the same.
At the Trump rally in Myrtle Beach, where signs that read "silent majority" dotted the crowd, Patricia Saunders told CNN that Trump is speaking directly to a segment of the population that feels left behind and marginalized.
"White Americans founded this country," said Saunders, 64. "We are being pushed aside because of the President's administration and the media."
Ah, yes, Patty . . . . because those six corporations that own all the media have totally been on the President's side these past 8 years.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)Cuts somewhat to the heart of the problems...
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"we are focused on the black ones right now"
Some people are ALWAYS focused on the black ones. Or the female ones. Or the other minority ones. Or the immigrants. Etc. Etc. Right now? You mean just like last week, and last month and last year and next week and next month and next year?
When does the "right now" end?
when you tell somebody "you are part of the problem" that's a far different message than "your life is important to me too". You make them an enemy, not an ally.
Yeah, let's spend some time talking about white people's problems. Why are they so racist? and so clueless? and so privileged?
Do we want to unite the bottom 60% or divide it?
TlalocW
(15,380 posts)A nice summary of the issue.
TlalocW
napkinz
(17,199 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Thereupon, the captain of the Pinta, Martín Alonso Pinzón, verified the discovery and alerted Columbus by firing a lombard.[43] Columbus later maintained that he himself had already seen a light on the land a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension promised by Ferdinand and Isabella to the first person to sight land.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]
ProfessorGAC
(64,998 posts)That bothers me not one bit. Just thought you might like to know. It's not untrue that Luciano and Capone were italian. Or Bonnano, or Luchesi, or Accardo, or Marcello, or . . .
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,998 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"a perception of the white experience shared by few minorities."
What exactly do minorities really know about 'the white experience'? More than the white people who actually live it?
librechik
(30,674 posts)How unAmurrKKKan of us.
Trump can be proud that he has the xenophobic resentment voters on his side.
It's a large number of people, that silent majority. They will make a difference.
But they aren't really a majority anymore.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)THANKS TRUMP for fueling the fire on a national scale.
studyshare
(49 posts)Technically, the only demo the republicans have are white males. If you look at stats you tend to see a very clear pattern. Everyone else such as women (of all colors), Asians, Blacks, Jews (black & white), Mexicans, Muslims all vote Democratic. So i fail to understand how republicans plan to ever win the white house if they only appeal to the left overs.
Orrex
(63,203 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)What ever became of the white folk? We had it all and now look at us.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Mr Dixon
(1,185 posts)This is comical how can you whine when you had a head start on every scheme in this country? Madness playing the world smallest violin.
malaise
(268,940 posts)is unfair to minorities. And it's not believe - it is know - based on empirical evidence.
ProfessorGAC
(64,998 posts)The half that "think" it don't "think it". They're quite sure of it.