Obama didn't create Trump, the people who hate Obama did - Crosspost from GD

[ancianita]

9. Absolutely. But their prejudices and fears have been stirred up and manipulated for generations.

Whole structures have been set up to keep that protection racket going. It's good to understand all this. Tim Wise describes all this the same way.

But understanding is the booby prize if nothing else helpful or constructive follows.

These haters, like their forebears, deserve the space and chance to change and outgrow this system. Obama acts in awareness of this and we need to follow his lead.

Just because there's always been the inclination for mobocracy doesn't mean we give in to any oligarchic contempt that both panders to the worst of human fears and beliefs, and writes them off each new generation.

Whole swaths of people who were born into a system they didn't make, who scrambled to use it for their own advancement, can be described, but not condemned.

We don't want to be another version of them, or we can get dragged down by them.