2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOf course this election had nothing to do with racism. Its obvious
Michigan had highest number of bias crimes in Midwest post-election
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/12/01/michigan-bias-crimes-midwest-election/94744196/
Ohio interracial couples home trashed with swastikas and white power slogans painted on it
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/ohio-interracial-couples-home-trashed-with-swastikas-and-white-power-slogans-painted-on-it/
Santa is WHITE. BOYCOTT Mall of America: Online racists are having a meltdown over malls black Santa
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/santa-is-white-boycott-mall-of-america-online-racists-are-having-a-meltdown-over-malls-black-santa/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/fbi-hate-crimes-muslims.html?_r=0
Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act
"Our country has changed, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority. While any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions.
The decision will have immediate practical consequences. Texas announced shortly after the decision that a voter identification law that had been blocked would go into effect immediately, and that redistricting maps there would no longer need federal approval. Changes in voting procedures in the places that had been covered by the law, including ones concerning restrictions on early voting, will now be subject only to after-the-fact litigation."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/hate-on-the-rise-after-trumps-election
Nothing to see here, move along..........
JI7
(90,527 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)people are also telling me obama won the midwest before, proving that racism died in the late 1800's...
/sarc
still_one
(96,535 posts)"no more racism. After all Obama was African American proves it"
Of course they conveniently leave out how President Obama was treated throughout the eight years as President with such disrespect, its sickening their hypocrisy
3catwoman3
(25,440 posts)The election of Barack Obama revealed just how deeply racist many Americans still are.
The rigged-for-him election of DFT (Donald Fucking Trump) has given this racism a stamp of approval.
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)But to say that ALL white voters who voted for Trump are racists even when many of them voted for Obama twice is wrong and untrue.
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)But obviously racism wasn't high on their list of priorities. It's just hard to fathom why anyone opposed to racism would vote for Trump.
stone space
(6,498 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)And you have no idea how many Obama voters voted for Trump. You make a lot of assumptions there.
still_one
(96,535 posts)Similar numbers that believe he is a Muslim.
A coincidence I am sure that same number voted for trump.
Nothing to see here
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)they voted for racism. He never tried to hide it. It was no longer a dog-whistle, more like a trumpet. If they voted for Trump, they were okay with racism, which in the end is as bad as the White Supremacists. (I refuse to call them alt-right because that's what they want to be called.)