Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Kent G. Bailey - WND: Donald Trump: The Great White Hope? - "Whites in America like to think they are 'post-racial' – in fact, we are becoming just 'post' as a race and as a people."




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Kent G. Bailey, WND, February 22, 2016
“The election of Barack Obama is just the most startling manifestation of a larger trend: the gradual erosion of ‘whiteness’ as the touchstone of what it means to be an American . . . what will the new mainstream look like–and how will white Americans fit into it?”
– from the introduction to Hua Hsu’s “The End of White America?” in The Atlantic, January/February 2009
One of the great mysteries of the current election cycle is how Donald Trump continues to exert absolute control over his cadre of voters and supporters–even when committing one egregious outrage after another. Maybe he’s right that he could shoot someone in the street and not lose a single vote! What explains this extreme and unquestioning devotion to Trump amid his barrage of obscenity, back-alley personal attacks and name-calling, and even a slap or two at establishment icons Momma Bush and George W.?
It all has to do with race, friends, and if you are one of those brain-dead whites who thinks we are past race, then go ahead and sit helplessly by as Caucasians of European Descent (COEDs) race to minority status by 2041 and probable extinction by the end of the century. Not only is the Internet ablaze with postings on the “end of the white race,” but the tone is often one of great joy, as if to say “why has it taken so long?” ...