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In reply to the discussion: On election night, when it still looked like Hillary was going to win, commentators said she must [View all]Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)So, the fact that the percentage of white men is slowing diminishing over time is more troubling to them than the fact of black genocide by cop in America? That the living, breathing black loved ones of black Americans are being jailed at disproportionate rates for the enrichment of the immoral private prison industry, if not outright murdered in cold blood, does not stand out as a more pressing problem?
That is some white supremacist BS of the highest, most vile order.
Still, I do have a modicum of sympathy for those lost souls. One branch of my family tree sprang from a family who settled in rural Virginia in the late 1600s. My grandmother, of that line, was in many ways, a lovely woman. I certainly loved her, but was utterly mortified by her deep-seated racism. She grew up with the casually ingrained idea that she was of a superior race to any black person who ever lived. It was as natural and obvious to her as that water is wet.
That belief has been passed down, undiluted, to some of her great-grandchildren who don't even live in the South (unless you consider Baltimore the South, which some do.) But I can't help believing it wouldn't have stuck so firmly if not for the incessant propaganda disseminated by the RW. The constant, insidious reinforcement of any lingering bigotry is a very powerful tool.