The crisis confronting the American republic at this moment is not the fault of Russia, it’s the fault of US racism. 2/27pic.twitter.com/iXY1xjsPPH
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White America rallied behind Trump 2 relieve it of an existential threat posed by a black president elected by a multiethnic coalition 3/27pic.twitter.com/52hH2A64bW
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Trump descended the golden escalator of his tower & announced his candidacy for president to a room full of folks paid to applaud him. 4/27pic.twitter.com/PnBf06ZI9m
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What set Trump apart from other GOP primary candidates was his unabashedly racist rhetoric and his white nationalism platform. 5/27pic.twitter.com/gnZezjCqLp
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Soon as Trump was elected, enormous amounts of energy went 2 explaining y whites rallied 4 him, mainly 2 argue it wasn't about racism… 6/27
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Except, sike! — analysis shows it was primarily racism.
7/27https://www.thenation.com/article/economic-anxiety-didnt-make-people-vote-trump-racism-did/ …
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Nevertheless, both sides of white power structure, right & left, prioritized defending white Trump voters against charges of racism. 8/27pic.twitter.com/sjHFZofQtD
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Not only was focus placed on defending few thousand voters who tipped electoral college for Trump (he lost popular vote by 3 million)… 9/27
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…but blame for his win was placed on non-white voters for demanding too much focus on “identity politics” (read: civil rights) 10/27
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Now, predictably, as Trump goes down & threatens to take the republic w/ him, there’s already effort underway to rewrite history… 11/27
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…and cast Trump as an anomaly disconnected from the political & religious right. Trump came out of nowhere apparently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 12/27
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No one recalls the racist birtherism movement that marked his ascendancy in the conservative political sphere. 13/27pic.twitter.com/gvzjYLRCBE
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No one recalls GOP presidential candidate Romney holding a special press conference to announce he’d been endorsed by Trump. 14/27pic.twitter.com/X61dyq7ILL
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Trump is now cast as being single handedly responsible for the crisis of the modern American republic. 15/27
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But that’s false and we all know it’s false. And this is why the institutions of America are shaking at their foundations in 2017. 16/27
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“Trump” is not simply Donald J. or a building in Manhattan. Trumpism is a movement that represents a racist police state… 17/27
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…a reifying of the white supremacist ideology that shaped the nation’s institutions from prisons & labor laws to housing & education. 18/27
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How Trump rose to power, peddling racist conspiracy abt 1st black prez w/ complicity of white power structure, shouldn’t be forgotten. 20/27
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152 years after US Civil War, we’re still dealing w/ the consequences of deliberate miseducation & historical erasure re: slavery. 21/27pic.twitter.com/WiCOaY9VBv
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