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Date Posted: 06:42:41 09/25/16 Sun
Author: No name
Subject: Here's some Truth for you Trump voters:

Jimmy Carter writes, people like Will Campbell — who repeatedly told white people that they were lying to themselves about their own history, about slavery and the Civil War, and about the supposedly contented condition of “the Negro” — were confusing and irritating. But when the Civil Rights movement came along, Carter said he experienced a gradual awakening, and a realization that Campbell and the other “truth-tellers” of the white South had been right all along. If many whites experienced that era as bewildering and chaotic, Jimmy Carter says he experienced it as a personal and spiritual boon, in which “the burden of white supremacy” was lifted from him.

Let’s think about that, because it’s an extraordinary statement. The idea Jimmy Carter proposes in that essay, and that Will Campbell lived by, is nonetheless radical or revolutionary. It is that white people do not suffer when white supremacy is ended or ameliorated. In fact, they are made better, happier and more complete people, potential partners in all the dialogue and drama of the human race, instead of poisoned robots in thrall to a transparently false and evil ideology.

A large proportion of white Americans have been severely damaged by the legacy of white supremacy, and now suffer from a kind of dementia disorder. They seek to blame people of other races or people from other countries for problems that are either self-inflicted or the work of their capitalist overlords. And in the name of reclaiming a lost golden age, they are rushing to sign their own death warrant.

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The Trump voters that I personally know will do worse under a President Trump, who already said he's going to cut taxes for people like himself.
Maybe they think they will get some benifit from his imaginary wall?
But we already know what will happen in 4 years when the country is in worse shape than Dubya left it... they'll blame it on Obama, at least until the next Democratic President has a few months under his belt. Then it will be his fault, and they can cry about playing the blaim game if anyone reminds them that their Trump was the one that crashed the country. (NT) -- No name, 06:47:14 09/25/16 Sun