The Resurgence of Racism and Its Political Implications
What We Forgot is Coming Back For Us! And there’s Nowhere To Hide. American really have no idea what the have unreleased in ushering in the new herd of Red-neck, dumb-fuck MAGA Morons. But they’ll soon find out pretty quickly.
Don’t anyone ever dare ask my why I’m leaving the US again!
You’re just ignorant if you can’t recognize the return to racism. There is also a return to deep southern intolerance. Additionally, there is a resurgence of red-neck, dumb-fuck barbarity that Donald Trump represents.
You have no concept of history. You fail to understand the all-consuming severity of fascism if you think things are just “going to be alright”.
NO THEY WON’T just be alright, not for a long time and more immediately, to this on the MAGA firing line, like me.
I have no choice but run away or risk being jailed or killed by the MAGA mob
of Morons. How about you, you going
to keep your head down, your mouth shut, do your job and wait them out? You really think they’re just going to leave you alone. You really believe the fascists are going to tolerate those who aren’t that switch isn’t loudly and enthusiastically pro fascist.
There ain’t no two sides anymore.
There’s just violent, brutal, cult member them and those of us escaping the Zombies!
“ I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s ‘The Cross and the Lynching Tree’ off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency. Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the killers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was ‘stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.’
God help us. It is hard to write the words. This evil — the evil of white supremacy, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and killing her child.
Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to look at resurgent racism as just one in a series of presidential offenses or another in a series of Republican errors. Racism is not just another wrong. The Antietam battlefield is not just another plot of ground. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is not just another bridge. The balcony outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is not just another balcony. As U.S. history hallows some causes, it magnifies some crimes.
When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial.
It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving racist tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.
What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s divisiveness is getting worse, not better. He makes racist comments, appeals to racist sentiments and inflames racist passions. The rationalization that he is not, deep down in his heart, really a racist is meaningless. Trump’s continued offenses mean that a large portion of his political base is energized by racist tropes and the language of white grievance. And it means — whatever their intent — that those who play down, or excuse, or try to walk past these offenses are enablers.
Some political choices are not just stupid or crude. They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion. Such racism indicts Trump. Treating racism as a typical or minor matter indicts us.”— Michael Gerson
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