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Although I have been pessimistic about American race relations since President Obama held a press conference on national television to insert himself into an otherwise unnewsworthy local crime by informing the country that 'if [he] had a son, he would look at lot like Trayvon' - it seems to be a good bit worse than I had feared. There's a truly open and unabashed fervor behind the death of white people, which I had in some ways previously chalked up to still being just a bit of 'those kids on tumblr'.
Read some of the comments in the last few hours from Karmelo Anthony's givesendgo fundraiser. Karmelo is suspected of stabbing a young white boy to death. His family has already raised more than half a million dollars with no end in sight.
https://www.givesendgo.com/HelpKarmelo
The fact that there are 50,000,000 black Americans and this guy raised $500k really isn’t convincing me that some kind of race war is imminent. If some white nationalist raised a million dollars I likewise wouldn’t believe that the turner diaries were about to be made reality.
I don’t think we have to be at “literal race war imminent” to recognize that race relations (specifically between blacks and non-blacks) in America are in a very bad state and show no signs of long-term improvement.
I would add to this that no one outside of the extremists have a credible plan for how to change this.
We've tried the method of making whites take all the rancor and blame. It didn't work out too well. All the other solutions put a significant amount of burden of changing this on blacks, and that's anathema to progressives (especially white progressives).
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