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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Adder
It's just that anyone who knows anything about the history of this country also knows that economics does not hardly explain our racism.
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This is like saying that the Holy Roman Empire wasn't Holy, Roman or an Empire. It's satisfyingly simple and provocative, but surely the truth is more complicated.
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And even if you want to use economic performance to analyze white nationalism, you really need to deal with it's relationship to perceived gains by black people.
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Like I was saying.
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Trump isn't a symptom of economic malaise. He's a symptom of outrage that we elected a black president and that black lives were in danger of mattering while some white people weren't getting ahead.
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Why not both?
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