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Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) said, "We don't talk about those things."JOSH ISRAEL MAY 15, 2018, 8:32 AM
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) is very upset that Democrats think racial discrimination is still a problem. Days after a House floor clash with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) over the House Republican majoritys decision to rescind Obama-era protections against auto lending discrimination, he complained on Tuesday mornings Fox & Friends that claims of modern day racial inequalities are not American.
Kelly then credited President Trump for having united America and purportedly ending racial strife.
https://thinkprogress.org/pennsylvania-congressman-mike-kelly-un-american-to-talk-about-racism-fb297d0719c6/
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)"We don't talk about those things."
We've never had a national conversation about the foundation of white supremacy (and patriarchy) this nation was built upon, and how it continues to manifest in myriad ways, systemically and culturally.
We've been conditioned that it's "not polite" to talk about politics or religion; speaking of the realities of racism and bigotry gives the majority of white people the vapors, including a significant number of white progressives/liberals.
So, yeah, he's right that in the US "we don't talk about those things."
But we SHOULD. We MUST if we're ever going to stop this cycle of othering and destruction. Legislation can't fix a sickness in a culture, especially a sickness that is steeped in our foundation.
dembotoz
(16,804 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)discrimination and oppression of PoC in the USA.
Big surprise eh?
brer cat
(24,565 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Yes trump has indeed united a certain sector of America that has solutions to racial strife
malaise
(268,994 posts)fucking AMERICAN! Fuck them all. This real American shit has to be stopped
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/real-americans-are-a-myth-dont-you-dare-buy-it/2018/05/14/b4c3099e-57a3-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.9ab9a731b437
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by Eugene Robinson Opinion writer May 14 at 8:16 PM Email the author
The most offensive and corrosive idea in our politics today is that some Americans are more real than others. Dont you dare buy it.
Republicans are cynically peddling this un-American conceit. Real Americans elected and continue to support President Trump, they claim, in defiance of snooty coastal elites who are hopelessly out of touch with the country. Its a total crock, and shame on those using it for political gain.
The whole point of democracy is that every citizens voice is supposed to have equal weight even voices in favor of fair and compassionate immigration policy, universal health care, fighting racism, promoting gender equality, enshrining LGBT rights and other progressive causes. There is no need to be tentative about these views for fear they somehow make you, I suppose, unreal. They do not.
safeinOhio
(32,676 posts)to make him appear Black and then have him travel the country.
#Blacklikeme
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Yeah here's how Trump united America and ended racial strife!
IronLionZion
(45,441 posts)because it makes them feel uncomfortable. The stepped on peoples need to stop being snowflakes and get over it already.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)Gothmog
(145,225 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)3catwoman3
(23,981 posts)Ending? ENDING? ENDING???
In what alternate universe?
Wounded Bear
(58,653 posts)standingtall
(2,785 posts)yeah this guy is the worst kind of racist.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)You know - the talking about racism is divisive, whatever that means crowd ...