"Trump is a son of Queens, a Northerner through-and-through. There’s no public record telling us when the light of the angel Jefferson Davis fell upon him and he knew that the Confederacy’s cause was his own, but it sure is now."

And not just Trump: scads of Northerners whose ancestors fought the Confederacy have now jumped on the Confederate train after the double election of the first Black president.

#Trump #Confederacy #WhiteSupremacy #racism #Queens #NewYork
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/who-asked-for-this-two-stories

"Simply put, the Trump administration is obviously racist and is actively pursuing a white supremacist project. …

The Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal, and just about every other major outlet haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past six months:"

~ Chance Phillips

#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #media #MediaFail #MediaBlackout
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-cares-white-supremacists-are-calling-the-shots-now/

@wdlindsy

It's an often overlooked aspect that motivates White Supremacy: greed.

First & foremost bigotry, White Supremacy is a tool to enrich the favored few.

If you underpay teachers & nurses, you get rich.

If you don't pay black & brown people at all, you get rich.

If you keep an entire generation in perpetual debt, you get rich.

If you keep immigrants chained to back breaking precarious jobs, you get rich.

If you keep people worried about food & housing prices, you get rich.

@Okanogen @wdlindsy

Capitalism and White Supremacy have a closely intertwined history.

Agreed, they aren't the same thing, but they do feed & bolster each other.

White supremacists believe that the prosperity of capitalism belongs to them alone.

Capitalism is distorted & kneecapped to ensure that white supremacists keep their wealth, status, prestige, power, and control by keeping everyone else down.