Mayor Johnson is not a politician playing the race card. He is a true believer in Critical Race Theory and Anti-racism. In his world view everything is about anti-black racism, all European heritage people are racists, the structure of the economy is racist, the structure of government is racist, tax and borrowing policy are racist, math and statistic are racist, any challenge or questioning is racist. Other non-European heritage people are also victims, but far behind blacks in victimhood and too prone to sharing 'white' values.
He believes that there has been no progress among whites in understanding and accepting their racism and in fact their racism was simply transformed into new methods. This makes it perfectly reasonable to equate the attitudes, issues and arguments of 60, 100, 160 years ago with any white person today.
Not buying. I don't believe in collective guilt. I sent in some comments not yet posted. My grandparents came over from Eastern Europe around 1900. They probably never saw a black person until arriving here. They didn't practice racism. They were concerned with mere survival. My grandfather took a dare and started his own trucking business during the Great Depression. Fortunately it worked. It was never a large enterprise. But it allowed him to comfortably raise a family. He wasn't in a position to discriminate against anyone. No one is arguing how badly blacks in this country have been generally treated. That doesn't make all whites guilty. And maybe there are some that understand things better than many think, although we keep talking about whites collectively.
Hmm...That had not occurred to me. It makes sense though
In that case, I the world of black and white, how would Johnson categorize Sicilians?
See Dennis Hopper's answer in his scene with Christopher Walken in the movie True Romance. I would post a link, but I think it is too raw for the forum.
Johnson's tactics of dismissing every question with racially themed whataboutism is absolutely disgraceful and disgusting.
... and bizarre. He has no sense on how to play the race card. When I brings in race my first reaction is "what?..."
Lori Lightfoot played the gender card over how the press was critical of her. I think it did not work, but at least she was coherent about it.
Mayor Johnson is not a politician playing the race card. He is a true believer in Critical Race Theory and Anti-racism. In his world view everything is about anti-black racism, all European heritage people are racists, the structure of the economy is racist, the structure of government is racist, tax and borrowing policy are racist, math and statistic are racist, any challenge or questioning is racist. Other non-European heritage people are also victims, but far behind blacks in victimhood and too prone to sharing 'white' values.
He believes that there has been no progress among whites in understanding and accepting their racism and in fact their racism was simply transformed into new methods. This makes it perfectly reasonable to equate the attitudes, issues and arguments of 60, 100, 160 years ago with any white person today.
Not buying. I don't believe in collective guilt. I sent in some comments not yet posted. My grandparents came over from Eastern Europe around 1900. They probably never saw a black person until arriving here. They didn't practice racism. They were concerned with mere survival. My grandfather took a dare and started his own trucking business during the Great Depression. Fortunately it worked. It was never a large enterprise. But it allowed him to comfortably raise a family. He wasn't in a position to discriminate against anyone. No one is arguing how badly blacks in this country have been generally treated. That doesn't make all whites guilty. And maybe there are some that understand things better than many think, although we keep talking about whites collectively.
Hmm...That had not occurred to me. It makes sense though
In that case, I the world of black and white, how would Johnson categorize Sicilians?
See Dennis Hopper's answer in his scene with Christopher Walken in the movie True Romance. I would post a link, but I think it is too raw for the forum.
And he never really gets called out on it, so he keeps doing it