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BumRushDaShow

(128,727 posts)
9. It was a visceral reaction
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 08:11 AM
Nov 2016

It's not something that "just happened" with this election. It was building for the last 8 years as the "ultimate insult" (a black President) has served in the highest office... and even with all the bravado threats, he was re-elected.

Aside from what are probably unprecedented election irregularities, IMHO, a group said "enough is enough" and brought previous non-voters out from the woods, farms, and small towns. JUST LIKE many on "our side" said "enough is enough", bringing out black folk who never voted before and were willing to stand in line for 8 - 10 hours in the heat to help elevate a Barack Obama. Many of those folks went back to sleep again.

I hate to say but it is human nature.

The GOP likes using the term "political correctness" and Democrats (of late) call it "identity politics". But what neither side is willing to admit, is that they (some whites) consider their cultures and world-views as "universal" and "the norm", and thus anyone who disturbs this self-defined/self-imposed "natural order" is worthy of being marginalized with nonsensical terms such as "engaging in PC" or "identity politics".

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