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In reply to the discussion: This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want [View all]haele
(12,650 posts)Deep down in the lizard brain, the majority of white people know that while they can tut-tut and speechify about it all they feel they need to, they have the social privilege to go about their own daily business and wait to address Drumpf and his policies at the time and manner of their own choosing because most of his policies are attacking "those other people".
There is no immediate imperative for most white people to act. They're safe - for now.
And I know because I am an old white lady with cute white grandchildren and a slacker white son-in-law whose family are typical Orange County Real Estate Republicans, so he never had to do a god-damn thing in his life to be able to live comfortably until now.
Of course, his family also been conned into praying Jesus will come back before their social superiority catches up with them and they lose everything when the house of cards they've cheated their way to live in comes crashing down around them.
I know why Wypipo like that do the things they do, and I've said in public right in front of them - "Well, at least my granddaughters are cute and white - they'll be in the last group before the poorer land-owning white businessmen to lose their citizenship in this country". And 9 out of 10 white people, though they may act shocked, agree with this.
I do what I can. And while that's plenty in a blue state like California, it's never really enough. I never feel equal, as if I were coming from a level playing field - I know I started out on First Base simply due to the color of my skin - the luck of the Vagina.
And that's the sorry American reality that is the direct connection to the OP's article.
Haele