Show threadSusan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Oct 1, 2024

#Trump’s #glorification of the #1890s in #America displays his #dangerous #ignorance of #economics and #history.

The 1890s were a period of entrenched #WhiteSupremacy, marked by the rise of #JimCrow, widespread #RacialSegregation, and violent #Lynchings. #Racism dominated society, marginalizing #BlackAmericans and reinforcing #WhiteDominance in #politics and daily life, contradicting any Trump-glorified vision of #NationalGreatness.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-10-01/column-trumps-glorification-of-the-1890s-in-america-displays-his-dangerous-ignorance-of-economics-and-history

Hiltzik: What Trump doesn't know about the 1890s could fill a book

Trump describes America in the 1890s as 'the wealthiest it ever was.' In fact, it was a decade of Depression, and a dark age for the Republican Party

Los Angeles Times
MarsdenJul 20, 2019

"My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do."

#whiteprivilege #whitedominance #usa

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/magazine/white-men-privilege.html

I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.

My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

The New York Times