White People Are Right: They Built This Country

[sheshe2]

America is angry.

They are mad for the same reasons they wanted to oust Obama, Muslims, immigrants and anyone who doesn’t support the Russia-fellating, rust-colored dotard in chief: They want their county back.

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White people built this country.

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Link to tweet

Link to tweet

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They will tell you the only way to change a 400-year-old system of oppression is to do the same things they did to create a the 400-year-old-system of oppression. They have faith in the American democracy because they have seen it work for them. Only for them. They place their trust and loyalty in the American values because America was built to work for them. Only for them.

Because they built it that way.

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It is our blood and sweat that is mixed into America’s foundation. It is our bodies that have served disproportionately in America’s armed forces. We took the first bullet in the Revolutionary War. We picked the cotton that made America an economic superpower. It is our bodies that give this country its military might.

We fought the Nazis that kept us free and scored the touchdowns that make America cheer. We gave America civil rights and every single form of American music. White women want black women’s lips, hips and resilience. The whole country wants our soul. We taught this country how to dance, sing, run, jump and win. We gave America Prince, a President and a King.

And we did it for free.

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Yes, they may have built it. But this is our country.

Even though we poured the foundation and hammered the nails, America is constructed from a white dream. They were the original owners of this flawed house and black people have been trying to fix it ever since. We were the workers whose hands constructed this country.

Please read the rest. https://www.theroot.com/white-people-are-right-they-built-this-country-1827688632

"We paid the price in blood. In sweat. In tears. In bruised backs and calloused hands."



You really should read the rest. Oh and Rachel's video is a must see. Trigger warning: Pat Buchanan spews his filth.

[thucythucy]

1. Proud to be the first one to rec. this.

Thanks.

And thanks for turning me on to "the root."

[sheshe2]

2. Hey, thucythucy, I thank you.

Good article despite Pat Pukecanon.

[brer cat]

3. Outstanding!

Thanks for posting it, sheshe.

[sheshe2]

4. Welcome, brer.

[Aristus]

5. K&R.

[sheshe2]

6. Thanks, you.

[Aristus]

8. Anything for you.

But my heart is truly in the cause...

[sheshe2]

10. I know, Aristus.

You are white, I am white....why are some white people so angry? I just don't get the hatred of non white and never will.

Thanks.

[struggle4progress]

7. Let's hear some Paul Robeson here

[sheshe2]

13. Yep.

Old man river.

Thanks, s4p

[struggle4progress]

14. "And them that plants em is soon forgotten"

[sheshe2]

19. Because there was always another to replace them.

Yep.

plants or picks

[Wounded Bear]

9. There's a term big money people like Trump use. It's OPM...

Other People's Money. Basically they don't risk their own money, they risk OPM and skim off the profits.

White people built this country using OPBST...Other People's Blood, Sweat, and Tears. The "other people" in this instance meaning black, Latina, and Asian people. Yeah, a lot of white people worked at the bottom, too, but they weren't exploited quite as bad as POC.

[sheshe2]

17. I agree with most of your post.

I respectfully disagree with this part.

Yeah, a lot of white people worked at the bottom, too, but they weren't exploited quite as bad as POC.

The white people were not brought here in chains on a slave ship. They were not bought and sold like animals on an auction block.

[Wounded Bear]

18. Which is why I said...

"they weren't exploited quite as bad as POC"

I suppose I can state it more strongly.

[sheshe2]

21. Alright.

More strongly perhaps is more apt.

However, thanks.

[argyl]

30. The Irish were probably the most despised European immigrants.

But they could take comfort in the knowledge that their kids would have it better.

[JI7]

11. the immigrants from the south of the border they want to kick out are more likely to have ancestors

who have been in the current United States from WAYYYYY before these "white people built this country" people's ancestors came here.

[Kind of Blue]

20. Good point. My cousin-in-law is of indigenous "American" descent whose family

was on this side of the border since time immemorial and were deported to Mexico back in the '30s and had to fight their way back into a land they've always known. Hideous history of white dominion.

[JI7]

12. that picture is freaky

[sheshe2]

15. Yep.

It took me a bit to post it, yet it fit. Not one but two American flags and a don't tread on me one as well. He looks unhinged.

[BigmanPigman]

16. This is what the average tRump voter believes...

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/insider-explains-rural-christian-white-america-dark-terrifying-underbelly
Excellent article...please read it all.
"a Common theme keeps cropping up from all sides: “Democrats failed to understand white, working-class, fly-over America.”

Trump supporters are saying this. Progressive pundits are saying this. Talking heads across all forms of the media are saying this. Even some Democratic leaders are saying this. It doesn’t matter how many people say it, it is complete BS. It is an intellectual/linguistic sleight of hand meant to draw attention away from...

[sandensea]

22. Right-wingers are building something alienating - and alien.

I know they're proud of themselves (just check out that Nazi imp, 'Murican Charlie').

But it's definitely not the America so many, of all backgrounds, toiled - and died - to build before us.

[Kind of Blue]

23. Horrible photo of the walking dead who need to

continuously feed off the living in whatever capacity that seems satisfying though their hunger for imposing suffering will never be satisfied.

Great find. Thanks, Sheshe.

[sheshe2]

24. "The walking dead"

that "feeds off the living"....perfect. I watch horror movies now and again, this image fits perfectly, they are walking and don't yet realize that they are dead, killed themselves with their votes long ago.

Thanks, Kinda of Blue.

[Kind of Blue]

25. Yeah, I kind of plagiarized a 1st Native Shaman from long ago

whose exact quote I could not find. But he said that wippl do what they do because they're already dead inside.

[sheshe2]

27. I am with you here.

Once, some time ago I posted about the census and that we are going to soon tip the scales and we will no longer be a white America, yet one of all colors and will cheer when it happens. I was accused on a Democratic board for advocating white genocide. I am frigging white FFS!

Gotta go, late, thanks Blue.

[Kind of Blue]

28. LOL!

I am surely cheering when that time comes though I'm sure I won't be here to witness it. But I'm taking that sweetness to sleep with me now. Good night, Dear Sheshe

[dchill]

26. And Jesus is their savior.

Not ours. Theirs. They own him, too.

[GaryCnf]

29. Michael, as always, is spot on.

It's just a shame how few folks can recognize that they had every bit as big a hand in building this America as the FIRCs spewing out vile tweets.

[Gothmog]

31. 'Get out of Idaho, half-breed!' Racist man caught on camera screaming at Christian teens outside McD

Link to tweet

[sheshe2]

32. JHC!

Lock him up. Disgusting piece of filth.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

33. These particular bitchy white people didn't do any of that.

Maybe some distant relative did, but so what?

Btw, I'm fine with my own lips, hips, and resilience. Lol! I get their point though.

F.Y.I, white supremacists... Being white is not something that binds us together. The only thing we've got in common being caucasian is we all get sun burns easily. It's not about what you look like. It is about who you are and what good you can do.

Also, notice the white supremacists specify man... Because you know us women are good for nothing. Dicks.