11-09-2016, 09:53 AM
(11-09-2016, 09:45 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The only way for Donald Trump to elevate white working-class people above non-white, non-Anglo, non-Christian, and non-straight people is to establish a system resembling Apartheid.
Got one of those bumper stickers that says "My tough son beat your honor student"? If so then you are the shame.
Trump doesn't even claim that's what he's trying to do. He's fine with black working class people as well as any of those who are here legally. He provided a blueprint for the inner cities that makes far more sense than anything the Democrats or the Republicans have previously verbalized. He does say he'll send back illegal immigrants, though we'll see about whether that's true.
On race specifically, we need to get back to a color blind view where we don't give special preference to any race. Preferencing any race just breeds resentment. Trump's win is partly based just on extension of the Democrats' politics of racial division to one more race. The solution is not to control which races to preference, but to get away from the politics of racial division entirely.