White Won (Jamelle Bouie on Slate)

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www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/white_won.html


"White Won: We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmett Till."


Read this, and tell me it's just about the economy or some other bullshit. Jamelle Bouie is SPOT ON.

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"Looking back, I thought this meant we had a consensus. It appears, instead, that we had a detente. And Trump shattered it. With his jeremiads against Hispanics and Muslims—with his visions of dystopian cities and radicalized refugees—Trump told white Americans that their fears and anger were justified. And that this fear and anger should drive their politics. Trump forged a politics of white tribalism, and white people embraced it."

In talking with so many here and elsewhere, it's obvious that the author didn't. "I thought this meant we had a consensus." Where on earth would he get THAT idea after Trayvon, after Tamir, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, John Crawford, Phillip White, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Eric Harris...

Some consensus. It's the calm before the storm.

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And how many were educated....women including white women are highly educated in the US, but they don't get outside their bubbles, they have no idea what happens outside their county let alone in the rest of the world so fear wins. Formal education is powerful but it is not the answer. Share articles, discuss local and national and international topics. A degree does not make you well informed