Wrong; but predictable from leftists. Blacks have learned to fear white cops and stupidly believe that they are the targets of racist white cops out to kill them. Whites have nothing to fear from minorities as they are too busy murdering each other in the Liberal urban sewers they have been penned up in for decades.
Your comments are more evidence that liberals cannot learn have the ability to comprehend the OBVIOUS.
You didn't learn anything did you if you think that white racial resentments was the driving force behind the election results.
I would suggest that you're one of the many urban liberals that has a disconnect with small town and rural Americans and don't understand their anger. If you think it's this sort of social fluff you're sadly mistaken Midcan and I would suggest you go out into the boondocks and spend some time with the locals, be open minded, listen to them and try to understand their legitimate concerns and anger.
The two comments above demonstrate how unaware certain people are even when they exist on opposite side of the so called fence. Truth Detector hasn't a clue and obviously doesn't live or travel into many of our major cities today. Gentrification is changing cities, Philly is now more white, we still have North Philly which is poor and black but even that is changing as U of P etc is pushing the poor to the burbs. The burbs (outer areas of city) will soon be the area for the poor similar to Appalachia type areas and rust belt locations. I've worked in the city for forty years and saw it change first hand as I bicycle to work. Schmidt's brewery is now yuppie-view. I used to love the brewery smells, sun rises over the decay along the Front Street L.
But today I live on the outskirts of town and often talk to small town folk and they vary from the absolutely ignorant, lots of them still believing a Muslim interloper is president and others, church goers and Limbaugh listeners, some more tolerant, but often paranoid that life is changing and they are losing some lost imaginary place. As I hear this baloney about white anger I'm thinking this is just a cover. Mott you live in a real fantasy place if you never saw the hatred for Obama and then Hillary. Trump's racism, which is well documented and his slogan BS is as close to fascism as you can get. There is a reason white supremacists love Trump. And this election was close, the fact Hillary is so far ahead in the people's votes gives a glimmer of hope. The global world and immigration are making many crazy. A flat circle as Rustin Cohle notes of repetition over and over again.
Both quoter's are naive but I don't have time to learn em right now, a few articles below to back up my take on the election. Oh and books too does anyone read books anymore?
"Will Trump make America great again? The question is absurd. The real question is this: when was the country great, and for whom? In the not-so-distant past, it was certainly better for union members who could earn a living, for educators whose jobs were not tied to test scores, for anyone who worked in manufacturing. The country is better now for people of color, for gays and lesbians, for women, and for the disabled. This progress has been grotesquely misinterpreted to mean that the country is worse for white people.
Such thinking is false logic. One does not rule out the other. Straight white men, especially those who have inherited family fortunes, are doing just fine in America. The problem is that some of them are trying to ruin it for the rest of us." By Chris Offutt
'IN THE HOLLOW, The changing face of Appalachia — and its role in the presidential race' Harper’s Magazine / November 2016
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There was not one rational reason for a white person not in the upper classes to vote for Trump. In the last quarter, the economy was growing at nearly 3 percent, and not only was job growth solid but also wages are finally rising. But none of these economic facts could be appreciated because a candidate was pouring the crudest fuel on an old American flame, white supremacy."
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/201...-vote-for-trump-because-they-felt-left-behind
"Over the next few months, pundits and scholars will dissect this election. Many will find fault with Hillary Clinton and her campaign. Some will blame James Comey and the FBI. Others will hold the third-party candidacies of Jill Stein and Gary Johnson responsible for her defeat. But most will talk about the discontent of working-class white Americans, how elites dismissed them with scorn and treated them with condescension,
and how they, in the end, rejected the status quo and the economic philosophy that has left them behind. These are the folks Donald Trump called “the forgotten men and women of our country,” and this election will be read as their revenge.
But that is a lie. To be sure, non-college-educated, working-class white men overwhelmingly voted for Trump. But what the early exit-poll data, with all of its flaws, reveal is a much more complicated picture. The fact, and it is one this country must confront, is that the majority of White America voted for Trump to be the 45th President of the United States. According to the results of the Edison Research’s national election poll, 53% of white women voted for him and 48% of young white people supported him. Large numbers of college-educated white women (45%) and men (54%) voted for him. What is becoming increasingly clear is that White America, writ large, supported the candidate who wants to ban Muslims, build a wall on our southern border and deport undocumented workers; who calls himself the candidate of law and order; and who degrades and demeans women. This isn’t the revenge of working-class white men alone. White America—and I mean those who see themselves as white people, not as those who happen to be white—has struck back." Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Nov. 9, 2016, Time Magazine
"One little-known element of that gap is that the white working class (WWC) resents professionals but admires the rich. Class migrants (white-collar professionals born to blue-collar families) report that “professional people were generally suspect” and that managers are college kids “who don’t know shit about how to do anything but are full of ideas about how I have to do my job,” said Alfred Lubrano in Limbo. Barbara Ehrenreich recalled in 1990 that her blue-collar dad “could not say the word doctor without the virtual prefix quack. Lawyers were shysters…and professors were without exception phonies.” Annette Lareau found tremendous resentment against teachers, who were perceived as condescending and unhelpful."
https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class
"...I don't want to know anything anymore. This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again. And that little boy and that little girl, they're gonna be in that room again and again and again forever." Rustin Cohle
'White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America' by Nancy Isenberg
'The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy' Albert O. Hirschman
'Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal' Kim Phillips-Fein
'Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by J. D. Vance
'One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway - and Its Aftermath' by Seierstad, Åsne and Sarah Death
They are not going to do a damn thing for the middle class or "the promises" trumpf made.........
