His whole campaign is built around the idea that America is no longer great. When Trumps states, “let’s make America great again”, he is referring to a period in America when being white gave you middle class status. Trump has promoted the systemic racism within our society, at some points he has done it indirectly, but for the most part he has been very deliberate and straightforward with his racist rhetoric. What is systemic racism? It can be defined as the conscious or unconscious discrimination directed at minority groups; because it is often unconscious it is hard to see, but never the less it is very much so prevalent in our society. Systemic racism includes the complex array of anti-black [anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, etc.] practices, the unjustly gained political-economic power of whites, the continuing economic and other resources inequalities along racial lines, and the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and
His whole campaign is built around the idea that America is no longer great. When Trumps states, “let’s make America great again”, he is referring to a period in America when being white gave you middle class status. Trump has promoted the systemic racism within our society, at some points he has done it indirectly, but for the most part he has been very deliberate and straightforward with his racist rhetoric. What is systemic racism? It can be defined as the conscious or unconscious discrimination directed at minority groups; because it is often unconscious it is hard to see, but never the less it is very much so prevalent in our society. Systemic racism includes the complex array of anti-black [anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, etc.] practices, the unjustly gained political-economic power of whites, the continuing economic and other resources inequalities along racial lines, and the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and