We should see color. We should see religion. We should see homosexuality. We should see gender identity. We should see all the things that make people and the world different and not pretend that we are colorblind or that one story is enough to represent a whole group of people.
But we should also remember that most people have the same kinds of feelings and wants. Everyone wants to be the hero sometimes.
This poem was inspired by a disturbing dream, which showed me the day after I died due to nuclear war.
–I’m never too old for angsty poetry.
“This notion—raceless antiracism—marks the modern left, from the New Democrat Bill Clinton to the socialist Bernie Sanders. Few national liberal politicians have shown any recognition that there is something systemic and particular in the relationship between black people and their country that might require specific policy solutions.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates
“But if the bargain protected white workers from slavery, it did not protect them from near-slave wages or backbreaking labor to attain them, and always there lurked a fear of having their benefits revoked.” -@tanehisicoates via @theatlantic
“The descendants of indenture would enjoy the full benefits of whiteness, the most definitional benefit being that they would never sink to the level of the slave.” -@tanehisicoates via @theatlantic
The focus on one subsector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition.” -@tanehisicoates via @theatlantic
“By his sixth month in office, embroiled in scandal after scandal, a Pew Research Center poll found Trump’s approval rating underwater with every single demographic group. Every demographic group, that is, except one: people who identified as white.” -@tanehisicoates via @theatlantic
“Trump’s dominance among whites across class lines is of a piece with his larger dominance across nearly every white demographic.” -@tanehisicoates via @theatlantic
“…Trump assembled a broad white coalition that ran the gamut from Joe the Dishwasher to Joe the Plumber to Joe the Banker.” -@tanehisicoates via @theatlantic
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