I don’t like what Trump and his supporter’s say. But it’s good for America.
I like honesty. I liked this article on Medium, about how Hillary is a corporate tool. It doesn’t just say it, it shows her history and how she’s good at working with corporate power brokers, rather than challenging them much. She probably challenged them a little, which is good. But now as a leader, when it’s time to tap into American anger, she doesn’t take the obvious opportunity. That’s telling.
Then I read the paragraph that contains, “Did Americans all of a sudden become more racist?” I had to begin this post. What I like about Trump is that he gives racism and xenophobia a voice.
Trump is not promoting racism, or xenophobia
Trump is NOT a Klan member, or a Nazi. He’s not anti-black or even anti-Mexican or anti-immigrant. He may not even be anti-Moslem. But he IS willing to speak sloppily about the black protesters, illegal immigrants from Mexico who are criminals and American Moslems, 51% of whom apparently prefer sharia law and 25% of whom are willing to tolerate violence against Americans.
Speaking sloppily sounds like racism and xenophobia. But it’s not. It attracts those who are. But it’s not. He’s not creating xenophobia or racism. But he’s letting us see what’s already there. Many of us know it. He’s letting us see it. It’s honest.
Trump is not lessening racism or xenophobia, either
Yes, it’s a shame that he’s not talking about it openly. He could be saying, “Sure, a few of you are racist. And sure, some of you are little bit racist. Some of you like that I’m white. That’s good to admit, that some racism is left in America. But that’s not why we’re throwing out black protestors. We’re throwing out white protestors, too!”
Many believe that creating tolerance means we emphasize the about half of Moslem Americans who prefer American law to sharia law. Or that most American Moslems are against violence against Americans. But emphasizing one or the other, in my view, is untruthful. Say it like it is.
Trump is getting about a third of the votes of the less-then-half of Americans who are Republican. Even if he’s getting half of the Republican votes, that’s only a quarter of America. True, he’s not conservative enough for most Americans… But conservatism isn’t racism. They’re often compatible, but they’re different.
America is a recovering racist country
We’re a country with a deep racial history. We enslaved blacks for 40% of our history- more if you start with the colonization of America. Then we had both habitual (de facto) and even legal (de jure) racism (Jim Crow laws) for the next 100 years, into the 1960’s. Even after that, there were clear racist social rules about keeping blacks out of may white neighborhoods for another 20 years, into the 1970’s and 80’s. Racism in America is deep, and it lingers.
It’s right and proper that we air it. We should admit it. We should face it. My hope is that we’re recovering racists. Admitting it is an important step.
The next step is to plan out our future, the next steps. Given that America is still a recovering racist society, what should we do next? Please add your name to our mailing list and we’ll announce the next step soon.
I agree wholeheartedly. And I am also an African-American who will be voting for Donald Trump come November. America will vote for its next President during November 2016 of this year. Millions of Americans are angry with Washington politicians on both sides of the political isle where our President Barrack Hussein Obama sits center stage. This book shows you what America can see close up in him what was previously confined only within the African America inner-city. And that is the lack of a sense of what it means to be an American among the leadership class. There are African-Americans who ask themselves how is it that we have fared so miserably beneath so many of our own kind.The Hidden Dimension documents the answer to that question. https://www.amazon.com/author/stevenlofton