I completely agree with this, and with the thread. If you don't discuss racism as a giant motivating factor (not the only one, but a huge one), you can't cover this administration, these people, or their party accurately. - ThreadSky

markharris.bsky.social • 14 hours ago

I completely agree with this, and with the thread. If you don't discuss racism as a giant motivating factor (not the only one, but a huge one), you can't cover this administration, these people, or their party accurately.

Reposted from Karen Attiah

The point is, we are *ALL* being punished for letting a Black man lead white America for 8 years.

Trump and Musk represent a global white supremacist ideology that would rather destroy everything than let this happen ever again.

This is not something elite media likes to discuss.

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jmwallach.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Republicans will never get over the audacity of the voters picking a Black guy.

anothersnowflake.bsky.social•12 hours ago

But we did elect a Black guy twice... and passed up the chance to elect a woman twice.

jmwallach.bsky.social•12 hours ago

In his defense it took a Republican causing a global financial crisis and destroying our reputation internationally with a pointless war. The women ran in what would have been normal times.

anothersnowflake.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Interesting that you think last year was "normal times".

jmwallach.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Hmm, I mean the economy was growing, we were out of wars, and supporting an ally on the way to victory but people were too afraid of a mixed race woman so they went with the felon.

collectivist.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I think about this often. That Trump was a extreme reactionary response to Obama. That it’s “white power’s” last gasp at maintaining control over a changing nation.

aerkarri.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Yes, and people all over the world will be punished. Many thanks to everyone who chose Trump and who is not fighting him.

mattgoldberg.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The media desperately needs to get away from framing racism as a personal issue (“We can’t know what’s in his heart!”) and say “Purging people of color from positions of authority because you don’t think they’ve earned it is racist.”

dorianlynskey.bsky.social•12 hours ago

This is it. You can assess actions without reading people's minds. Did Elon Musk want to do a fascist salute? We'll never know for sure, but he certainly did one and then addressed a far right party in Germany so…

mannahattamamma.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It's racism. It's misogyny. It's racisim. It's misogyny. It's stupid cowardly white guys who cannot imagine a world in which they are not automatically at the top of the social pyramid. Or that humanity itself might only be a node in a network.

joekalicki.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I think it kind of is the only one. Without racism, without non-white people getting hurt, a lot of everything else Republicans want would be unacceptable. Nobody voted for Trump not knowing he's a racist.

mandynugent.bsky.social•13 hours ago

What happened to all the white people who voted for Obama? Did they suddenly become white supremacists?

olchefdan.bsky.social•12 hours ago

They thought voting for Obama ended racism and when Obama sympathized with Trayvon Martin they got so fucking mad they voted for Trump.

sportswalkthe.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Just looked it up: The 2008 electorate was 76.3% white.

So that's 99,953,000 voters.

Of those voters, 55% voted for McCain and 43% voted for Obama. So 42.98 million white people voted for Obama.

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2009/04/30/dissecting-the-2008-electorate-most-diverse-in-us-history/

leftinfighter.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The whole reason major papers are not calling this racism is because they are deliberately moderating their coverage to try and preserve press pool access. Just a bunch of simpering, spineless cowards.

dina427.bsky.social•13 hours ago

This thing with the media started when Obama was in the WH. They did not want to say the TEA PARTY was 100% about racism. They would not call them out. So here we are.

33greenfields.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It has always been about whites (primarily R’s) scapegoating blacks i.e welfare queens with Reagan, and other ppl of color. It is a constant

lastbutnotleast.bsky.social•13 hours ago

An understanding of race not only is needed to describe the GOP but also their centrist and leftist collaborators and sympathizers who "think they have a point."

lastbutnotleast.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Those of us pleading with this country to actually reckon w/its history w/ race weren't doing it b/c we wanted "undue" privileges, to have the "upper hand," or to make people feel bad, but b/c racism a cancer on democracy.

lastbutnotleast.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Turns out having some "old fashioned ideas" about chunks of your fellow citizens can open your mind to undemocratic ideas that affect everybody.

edwarddavid.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Five prominent sieg heils and counting...

edwarddavid.bsky.social•13 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/edwarddavid.bsky.social/post/3likhu7kwps2s

pammckelvy.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Tell the truth and shame the Devil.

squireknottyash.bsky.social•10 hours ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/
I remember reading this when it was published. I think about it all the fucking time now.

tokillamockingbird.bsky.social•9 hours ago

It’s about money. Race is used to amp up a segment of their followers as a distraction and to distract part of their opposition. The racism matters. But it’s about the money

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