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Originally Posted by CherylNYC
Oh, MAN! Where can we even begin to deconstruct this mess? White people can't be legitimately concerned with racial justice, we can only be victims of white guilt? We can't work towards equality because it's the right thing to do, but because we're trying to "atone (for our) white privilege"?? We're so guilty that we're willing to "upend society" by voting for a person of color?!! Soooo, I was kinda sad about it, but I noticed that Barack Obama was President for eight years and society didn't 'upend'. Not even a little.
This reporter cynically paints anti-racist sentiment amongst white people as an unsophisticated strategy and as a reactive stance, not as a legitimate point of view. Gah!
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It is a reactive stance for
some white people who are
now interested in fighting racism. Not because its the right thing to do, but because
now it affects them. And that's how change is usually made—as a reactionary measure against something that is touching someone's life.
This isn't an indictment against white people, especially not anti-racists—it's an examination on how SOME liberal voters in Iowa are changing their views on race and as a result, the politicians are changing how the speak with those voters.