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bravenak

(34,648 posts)
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 01:22 PM Dec 2016

Ubinas: The Trump empathy tour stops here

This election, struggling rural whites looked at struggling urban blacks and decided their racial differences were more relevant than their shared economic struggles.
So they hitched their wagons to a billionaire who is filling his cabinet with more billionaires who wouldn't know economic anxiety if it bit them on their pampered behinds.

This is the politics of divisiveness, played to perfection by conservatives who condemned a campaign to stop the police killings of black youth, and who now demand special compassion for whites in the Rust Belt. Remember how quickly Black Lives Matter conversations turned to All Lives Matter?
I can pinpoint the exact moment I felt the narrative turn. It was this summer, when a friend was being interviewed about the best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about white working-class Americans that without once mentioning Trump offered a fascinating window into why so many white working-class people would embrace him.

As I listened, I remember thinking how quickly the conversation had turned from communities of color - Remember when Black Lives Matter issues dominated the headlines? - to white people, again.
And now here we are . . . wringing our hands to empathize, to understand, turning ourselves inside out to come up with reparations for our dismissive attitude toward middle-America whites.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20161223_Ubias__The_Trump_empathy_tour_stops_here.html
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Ubinas: The Trump empathy tour stops here (Original Post) bravenak Dec 2016 OP
K & R ......good read....nt Wounded Bear Dec 2016 #1
I found this to be interesting: guillaumeb Dec 2016 #2
You got that right. Only they are REAL Americans bravenak Dec 2016 #3
+1 uponit7771 Dec 2016 #4

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. I found this to be interesting:
Fri Dec 23, 2016, 01:42 PM
Dec 2016
Almost two-thirds of Trump voters said average Americans aren't getting as much as they deserve; only 12 percent of Trump supporters said blacks have gotten less than they deserve.


And I would guess that a similar percentage of Trump voters would not include any non-whites in the "American" category. Remember the GOP meme that President Obama did not understand things because he was not a real American. And we know what the phrase "real American" means.

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