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| Topic | To many Americans, being patriotic means being white |
| FrisbeeDude 10/13/17 5:23:24 PM #1: | https://tinyurl.com/y8k7d4l6 Vice President Pence portrayed his walk out of Sundays game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers as an of act patriotism. "While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don't think it's too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem" "I stand with @POTUS Trump, I stand with our soldiers, and I will always stand for our Flag and our National Anthem. pic.twitter.com/B0zP5M41MQ" ences remarks followed President Trumps lead in trying to make the NFL players national anthem protests of racial inequality in America about patriotism instead of race. Or as the president tweeted last month: "Courageous Patriots have fought and died for our great American Flag --- we MUST honor and respect it! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" "The issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race. It is about respect for our Country, Flag and National Anthem. NFL must respect this!" Most Americans, however, see it differently. In a YouGov/Economist survey conducted earlier this month, 66 percent said that NFL players choosing to kneel during the playing of the national anthem is a matter of race compared with 34 percent who thought it was a matter of patriotism. But this debate about whether the NFLs #TakeAKnee protests have more to do with race or patriotism misses a more important point. American patriotism has always been racialized. [This is what millennials think about the NFL protests] Within the social science literature on intergroup relations, Jim Sidanius and Felicia Prattos influential theory of social dominance argues that politically dominant groups like whites in the United States effectively claim ownership of the nation. According to this theory, nationality and ethnicity are complementary because their power has enabled whites to successfully define the prototypical American in their own image. Consistent with that contention, social psychology research finds that for many to be American is implicitly synonymous with being white. Moreover, whites who feel a sense of solidarity with other whites have historically felt more strongly attached to such symbols of patriotism as the national anthem and the American flag. The figures below provide more new evidence that whiteness and American patriotism are deeply linked. The first graph shows a strong connection between how attached white Americans are to their own racial identity and how attached they are to American patriotism. The analysis combines four survey questions from the 2016 American National Election Study (ANES) into a measure of white consciousness. The first two gauge how important being white is to respondents identities and how much whites believe their own racial group is discriminated against. The remaining items, developed by Duke political scientist Ashley Jardina, are: How likely is it that many whites are unable to find a job because employers are hiring minorities instead? and How important is it that whites work together to change laws that are unfair to whites? --- No one gets in the way of my frisbee games! NO ONE! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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