This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want

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332. Hey Jake, lets try this.

I posted an Op. Not my words, yet words I believe to be true.

Trump’s presidency and policies have been equal parts petty and punitive. Its primary objective is to retain whiteness’s status for generations to come—the status of straight, white, Christian men, particularly—and in doing so, it also aims to punish anyone who stands or even just exists in opposition to it. They want to punish blacks for not being white. Muslims for not being Christian. Women for not being virgins. Poor people for not being wealthy. Immigrants for not being what they consider to be true Americans.

You say:

I know you are angry. I understand your anger. I'm pretty sure that if I were to trade places with you, I would be at least as angry. Coming from a life of privilege, I would go off the charts crazy if I had to be subjected to the treatment that is the daily life of most black people in America.

Well Jake , it is not just about black America as the above paragraph states. It is about Black. Muslim. Women. Poor. Immigrants. POC.

But that story, multiplied by thousands, does bear on the detrimental effect your (however justified) screed against "American White People" has on combatting racism. While many of us old white people take the vilification you hurl with equanimity, there are those with my kind of story who take your hurt personally - as a direct accusation. It makes a divide where there should not be.

My screed? Is that like a screech from an old white woman, me, who by your own word

While many of us old white people take the vilification you hurl with equanimity, there are those with my kind of story who take your hurt personally - as a direct accusation. It makes a divide where there should not be.

If I had vilified you then I would have vilified my own white self. Fact is, never happened. I never hurled anything and saying White People does not mean all white people. Got it?