Karla, I really couldn't agree with you more. Trump's
statements are appalling, but they speak to something greater than people's
racism. I think people have been bottling up their hate since the civil rights
movement, then all of the sudden a celebrity comes along and validates
everything they’ve been thinking. The majority of Trump’s constituents are
lower socio-economic white Americans, a population that in many ways only has
their race to separate them from other minorities. Trump and his campaign, and now
his administration, saw that opportunity and took hold of it tight. So yes, many of Trump’s supporters are bigots
actively fighting POC, women, and members of the LGBT+ community. However, I
would argue that the real more harrowing reality of Trump’s winning is that
people are willing to tolerate racism
and xenophobia rather than have Hillary in office. Acknowledging that some of
their fellow voters are racist but distancing themselves from that hate is
really harmful because it allows genuine xenophobic rascits to get away with
feeling thw way they do. Any Republican official worth a damn is staying faaaar
away from Trump’s cabinate, so all that’s left is racists like Steve Bannon.
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