As a black loyal Democrat, I say SCREW the white working class who insist on voting Republican

[EffieBlack]

92. Of course you wouldn't label them a racist. They're your friends (even though they're misogynistic?)

But they endorsed a racist. They ignored the desperate pleas of people of color and handed the White House to a bigot who made no secret of the fact that he's a bigot.

As I said, they may not personally be racist - i.e., they don't personally believe that blacks are inferior - but they had no trouble putting someone in power who not only believes that but promised to use his power to enforce that view. That is not personal racism, but it is the very essence of institutional racism, which depends upon people like your friends to perpetuate it even when they're walking around claiming they aren't racist themselves.

I don't give a damn about what's in their hearts. I care about what they DO. And they voted the exact same way as the Ku Klux Klan. It doesn't matter whether they did it while feeling their hearts are pure as the driven snow. They engaged in a racist act that will have ramifications for countless people of color across this country for years to come. THAT offends me. THAT disgusts me. THEY disgust and offend me. And the attempts to sugarcoat and defend their behavior among certain Democrats is also disgusting and offensive.

And being lectured by white people about how I must not only understand and forgive their white friends who have dug their heels into the necks of black and brown people in this country - whatever reason they claim they did it - and if I don't then *I* am the problem is absolutely nauseating, but oh so revealing.