Finding Comfort by Overlooking the Obvious 0
The corporate media seem to have concluded that Donald Trump’s victory came from support by the “white working class.” The are using the phrase “working class” to avert the eye from the key word in that phrase: “white.” Chancey Devega explains:
Historically, to be white was to be the quintessential American. In the United States, whiteness also proceeds from an assumption that white people are always and forever to be dominant and consequently the most powerful of all racial groups. This is white identity politics as both a practice and ideology. It is also the not-so-subtle meaning of Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again!”
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