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Last Post: 5:36:52pm, 07/10/2018
with Trump supporters
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/ev849a/civility-is-what-gave-us-trump-in-the-first-place?__twitter_impression=trueThe black waiter kept quietly coming over to my table as though afraid of being noticed. He knew, as I did, that we lived in an area where civility has long been used to kill and maim and make second-class citizens of people like us. Its a place where police shot a young black man, paralyzing him for life, lied about the incident, faced no charges or discipline, and not one local official, elected or otherwise, made a fuss about it.
The black waiter in that country-style buffet restaurant kept asking if I wanted a refill while wiping down tables near me that didnt need cleaning because he had already cleaned them so well. He then leaned in toward me, the only other black person in the place, eyes quickly darting across the restaurant to make sure none of the white patrons could hear what he was desperate to say.
He called me boy, he told me, fighting back tears and subtly nodding towards a grizzled older white man in jeans and a T-shirt sitting in a corner booth. He said, Get me some sweat tea, boy.
The hurt in his voice was palpable. I wanted to make a scene but thought better of it, knowing the resulting anger would more likely redound back on him rather than the white man in jeans and T-shirt. Its the kind of choice black people living in the South have had to make for decades, to swallow daily indignities or risk being blamed for unrest that make the white people around them uncomfortable.
Moments like these remind me that it was civility, not incivility, that helped make Donald Trump president. Barack Obama may have been the most civil man ever appointed to this countrys highest office. His presencecalm, careful, authoritative but not authoritarianallowed Americans to falsely believe all our racial problems had been solved. That gave moral license to white Americans who had voted for Obama to shift to Trumpthey had already proven they couldnt be racistafter the Republican expertly weaponized their fear and cultural ignorance.---
nothing is a greater tell of an awful human than using "social justice warrior" as a pejorative. without exception.- Bomani Jones