The white dominated press in the U.S. is getting better (not great) about not normalizing Trump. But they still resistant to tell it like it is about whiteness even it ought to be obvious.
Every headline about Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria left the island should have "White Racism" and "White Supremacy" in it.
Every
Every
Single
Headline
Headline
Look at the article headline below while keeping in mind that Puerto Ricans were without any electricity and drinking water, yet ignored by Trump for a week as he attacked black NFL players. There was pretty much zero movement toward helping Puerto Rico by our federal government until Trump was criticized. Only the most ignorant beasts among U.S. citizens don't know why.
Trump is ignoring Puerto Rico as much as he can get away with, like they are not U.S. citizens, because Puerto Ricans are NOT-WHITE. headline
The sad suspicion about Trump’s shameful treatment of Puerto Rico
As a friend of mine said, " 'Suspicion' my black @$$ "
After everything that's already happened how could the writer of the headline above minimize what's happening with Puerto Rico using the words "sad suspicion" then not name the suspicion in the headline?
I'll tell you how -- White people hate seeing the word "white" in reference to themselves in regards to anything negative. I even saw Bannon called a "Nationalist" in one article instead of "White Nationalist" when "White Nationalist" is already a minimization in itself. Trump and Bannon should both be called "Nationalistic White Supremacists" every single time their names are mentioned
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
The white press leaving the white out is the reason white people were the only segment of the country surprised by Charlottesville or what came out of TrumpleRacistSkin's mouth in regards to Charlottesville.
Even as the press stops normalizing Trump (too late to keep him from becoming President), the white run newspapers just can't stop themselves from normalizing white supremacy.
Article after article in mainstream newspapers say "Most Americans..." then compare the ones they called "most Americans..." to blacks and Muslims and other groups in this country as if they are not Americans too because "most Americans..." is code for white people.
Example: "Most Americans feel Black Lives Matter Is The Equivalent Of The KKK"- when the KKK is the group that has terrorized thousands and murdered hundreds of not-white people.
The only people who do NOT feel their lives would be threatened if the KKK came to have a lot of power are white people. Therefore they are pretty close to only ones capable of making such a "mistake."
Corrected Example: "Most Americans" may not be entirely white in this example, but it is predominantly white. This is the one time it's okay to erase a small segment of people of color. Headlines like this should read:
"Most White Americans feel Black Lives Matter Is The Equivalent Of The KKK"
If the white press told white people the truth about their white supremacist leanings, each of these statements and implications from Trump would be easily identifiable as white supremacy to most white people instead of less than half of white people
OBVIOUS SIGNS OF TRUMP'S RACISM
1) Mexicans are rapists
2) His saying the Central Park 5 are guilty despite DNA evidence to the contrary and a confession by another party -- never mind his failing to apologize for taking out an ad to say they should be put to death
3) Hired a person Coretta Scott King considered a card carrying racist to be Attorney General. And she felt so strongly about this that she wrote a letter apposing Jeff Sessions federal nomination in 1986.
4) Pardoned a Racial Profiler "Sherrif Joe"
5) That Muslim Ban he keeps pursuing is really non-white ban (And the press keeps calling it a Muslim Ban when Trump literally said "Ban... Muslims" during his campaign. = normalizing white supremacy)
6) Increased deportations is get non-white people out of here
7) "Build That Wall" is keep those non-white people out of here
8) We wouldn't take one refugee if we wouldn't look like heartless fools means: Those tired, poor, and huddled masses yearning to be free don't have to go back home but those no-money-having, not-white people have got to stay the hell up outta here.
9) "The Opiod Crisis" is a crisis worthy of federal dollars to solve it because it's killing white people at high rates of speed ....as predominantly black, character deficient, criminal, crack users languish in jail even now.
Charlottesville and his "both sides" comment was no where near the beginning of Trump's white supremacy.
And Trump's failure to respond to Puerto Rico as if there are actual human beings that are American citizens living there isn't going to be the end of Trump's white supremacy. There's no "sad suspicion" here. Anybody who's not a beast knows this man is a white supremacist acting like a white supremacist.
The only people that don't know are white people, and I mean a more than those who didn't vote for him. It's clear that a majority of white people are not comfortable with calling Trump a "Nationalistic White Supremacist" because if they were the white-run mainstream press would be calling Trump a "Nationalistic White Supremacist."
Newspapers follow popular culture and do not report things their biggest audience doesn't want to hear. And that puts them closer to useless than useful for people of color, especially black people.
Five years from now a white news anchor will be cast as heroic and extra intelligent and extra empathetic for seeing just how large a role Trump's white supremacy played in delaying aid to Puerto Rico. The white man or white woman will be a hero for seeing something 5 years too late what people of color see right now.
Most white people only recognize white racism when it's safe to so. And it's safe to so when nothing can be done about the white racism.
Five years from now, white people will be able to pretend that their mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters weren't cheering Trump on Puerto Ricans suffered. They'll pretend they didn't notice the white folks they loved in their own families cheering Trump on as he focused on trying to turn protests against murderer cops NFL into a patriotism issue.
Five years from now, the white pretense in regards to ignorance of Trump's white supremacy will turn out to be Oscar worthy if Puerto Ricans start dying in larger numbers.
White people need to demand that their white dominated press do better. If they'd done this years ago the press wouldn't have normalized Trump right into the White House.
The sad suspicion about Trump’s shameful treatment of Puerto Rico
No question the logistics are harder in Puerto Rico. But the 3.4 million U.S. citizens there have long endured second-class status: no voting members of Congress, no presidential vote, unequal benefits and high poverty. Now, the Trump administration’s failure to help Americans in Puerto Rico with the same urgency it gave those in Texas and Florida furthers a sad suspicion that the disparate treatment has less to do with logistics than language and skin color...”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-sad-suspicion-about-trumps-poor-treatment-of-puerto-rico/2017/09/26/5a54cde4-a2ef-11e7-8cfe-d5b912fabc99_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.b9a035d19749
As a friend of mine said, " 'Suspicion' my black @$$ "
After everything that's already happened how could the writer of the headline above minimize what's happening with Puerto Rico using the words "sad suspicion" then not name the suspicion in the headline?
I'll tell you how -- White people hate seeing the word "white" in reference to themselves in regards to anything negative. I even saw Bannon called a "Nationalist" in one article instead of "White Nationalist" when "White Nationalist" is already a minimization in itself. Trump and Bannon should both be called "Nationalistic White Supremacists" every single time their names are mentioned
EVERY
SINGLE
TIME
The white press leaving the white out is the reason white people were the only segment of the country surprised by Charlottesville or what came out of TrumpleRacistSkin's mouth in regards to Charlottesville.
Even as the press stops normalizing Trump (too late to keep him from becoming President), the white run newspapers just can't stop themselves from normalizing white supremacy.
Article after article in mainstream newspapers say "Most Americans..." then compare the ones they called "most Americans..." to blacks and Muslims and other groups in this country as if they are not Americans too because "most Americans..." is code for white people.
Example: "Most Americans feel Black Lives Matter Is The Equivalent Of The KKK"- when the KKK is the group that has terrorized thousands and murdered hundreds of not-white people.
The only people who do NOT feel their lives would be threatened if the KKK came to have a lot of power are white people. Therefore they are pretty close to only ones capable of making such a "mistake."
Corrected Example: "Most Americans" may not be entirely white in this example, but it is predominantly white. This is the one time it's okay to erase a small segment of people of color. Headlines like this should read:
"Most White Americans feel Black Lives Matter Is The Equivalent Of The KKK"
If the white press told white people the truth about their white supremacist leanings, each of these statements and implications from Trump would be easily identifiable as white supremacy to most white people instead of less than half of white people
OBVIOUS SIGNS OF TRUMP'S RACISM
1) Mexicans are rapists
2) His saying the Central Park 5 are guilty despite DNA evidence to the contrary and a confession by another party -- never mind his failing to apologize for taking out an ad to say they should be put to death
3) Hired a person Coretta Scott King considered a card carrying racist to be Attorney General. And she felt so strongly about this that she wrote a letter apposing Jeff Sessions federal nomination in 1986.
4) Pardoned a Racial Profiler "Sherrif Joe"
6) Increased deportations is get non-white people out of here
7) "Build That Wall" is keep those non-white people out of here
8) We wouldn't take one refugee if we wouldn't look like heartless fools means: Those tired, poor, and huddled masses yearning to be free don't have to go back home but those no-money-having, not-white people have got to stay the hell up outta here.
9) "The Opiod Crisis" is a crisis worthy of federal dollars to solve it because it's killing white people at high rates of speed ....as predominantly black, character deficient, criminal, crack users languish in jail even now.
Charlottesville and his "both sides" comment was no where near the beginning of Trump's white supremacy.
And Trump's failure to respond to Puerto Rico as if there are actual human beings that are American citizens living there isn't going to be the end of Trump's white supremacy. There's no "sad suspicion" here. Anybody who's not a beast knows this man is a white supremacist acting like a white supremacist.
The only people that don't know are white people, and I mean a more than those who didn't vote for him. It's clear that a majority of white people are not comfortable with calling Trump a "Nationalistic White Supremacist" because if they were the white-run mainstream press would be calling Trump a "Nationalistic White Supremacist."
Newspapers follow popular culture and do not report things their biggest audience doesn't want to hear. And that puts them closer to useless than useful for people of color, especially black people.
Five years from now a white news anchor will be cast as heroic and extra intelligent and extra empathetic for seeing just how large a role Trump's white supremacy played in delaying aid to Puerto Rico. The white man or white woman will be a hero for seeing something 5 years too late what people of color see right now.
Most white people only recognize white racism when it's safe to so. And it's safe to so when nothing can be done about the white racism.
Five years from now, white people will be able to pretend that their mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters weren't cheering Trump on Puerto Ricans suffered. They'll pretend they didn't notice the white folks they loved in their own families cheering Trump on as he focused on trying to turn protests against murderer cops NFL into a patriotism issue.
Five years from now, the white pretense in regards to ignorance of Trump's white supremacy will turn out to be Oscar worthy if Puerto Ricans start dying in larger numbers.
White people need to demand that their white dominated press do better. If they'd done this years ago the press wouldn't have normalized Trump right into the White House.
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