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| Topic | To many Americans, being patriotic means being white |
| FrisbeeDude 10/13/17 5:27:10 PM #4: | Nor is it surprising that white racial resentment was strongly linked to groundless speculation about whether President Barack Obama was really born in the United States the same birther beliefs that helped make Trump popular with Republicans in the first place. Trump and his supporters claimed that his birther crusade against the first black president had nothing to do with race just as they are now claiming that their opposition to NFL protesters is about patriotism, rather than race. [White identity politics isnt just about white supremacy. Its much bigger.] But both birtherism and Trumps attacks on athletes kneeling to protest police violence against blacks easily evoke widespread racialized ideas of American patriotism conceptions of citizenship that often equate being American with being white. --- No one gets in the way of my frisbee games! NO ONE! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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