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Is it Unpatriotic to Root Against a President? | Clyde Fitch Report — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 04:15:52 +0000

[…] Social Issues: Trump’s views on women’s rights and gender equality are reprehensible, obviously, but much to the chagrin of the extreme right, the President-Elect remains pretty wishy-washy on certain progressive social issues. Homophobes and their ilk may rejoice in his selection of bigoted-enough advisers — the anti-gay Vice President, Mike Pence; the aforementioned anti-Semite Bannon; the anti-public education Betsy DeVos; the anti-universal-healthcare Tom Price — but the buck does stop with Trump, terrifyingly enough. What do the evangelicals and white supremacists have to say? Or will they claim that he’s gaslighting? […]

By: mikopotato95

mikopotato95 — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 23:09:10 +0000

I was actually thinking about the parallels of abusive relationships and systematic racism after reading the chapter of The New Jim Crow in which we learn about the consequences of mass incarceration and the cradle to prison pipeline. There’s a narrative that in order to stay out of jail and make it out of the ghetto, black people just need to make better decisions, act and dress white, work hard, etc. and it’s being perpetuated even within the black community. None of that is true but it’s a white narrative revolving around colorblind ideology and apparently there are quite a few black people who buy into it and repeat it to others. It sounds an awful lot like gas-lighting on a larger scale. At the same time the system is rigged against them and abusing them, the master narrative is telling them that they’re at fault and if they do a better job of what’s expected of them, things will get better.

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