Hearing that God sent President Donald Trump to save the U.S. has been baffling. But maybe there’s a nugget of wisdom in that dogma.
Consider the spotlight now on the white privilege at the core of the Republican Party’s winning strategy since Richard Nixon. Dog-whistle strategies, like the Willie Horton ad by George H.W. Bush, have persisted, while Trump and his willing or scared enablers are fully invested in white supremacy.
But white progressives are not off the hook here. The social construct of white race supremacy has persisted even there, subtly coded in language and rationale. Our still mostly segregated lives have socialized white communities to a tolerated systemic suppression of non-whites. If you think you are post racism then please test that by reading Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility.” It opened my eyes to how deeply embedded white supremacy is in our economy, culture and thinking. Perhaps that is a divine message.
Steve Lumpkin, Austin
Note from KBJ: Stop projecting your racism onto others, Steve. Just because you're a racist doesn't mean that others are.
