L.A. Times: Whites Must Take Responsibility for Donald Trump

[rangerrebew]

L.A. Times: Whites Must Take Responsibility for Donald Trump
“Trump is unleashing this sense among a certain group of white men that violence is acceptable.”
1.1.2016
 
Mark Tapson
 

In an op-ed Thursday at The Los Angeles Times, contributor Dexter Thomas (pictured above) declares that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is "a white-people problem" and that the white "community must take responsibility for any damage that has been done, and take steps to correct it."

Thomas wrote that "people of color" police their own because "[w]henever a black or brown person does something unsavory in public, members of their community know that it will – fairly or not – reflect on them." He urges whites to handle the controversial, "particularly embarrassing" Trump the same way:

    White people should feel insulted by [Trump's appeal to "white nationalists"]. They should feel ashamed – as white people – of Donald Trump. Whites need to stand up and say that they will not allow Trump to hijack their culture, or to conduct his racist politics in their name.

But that’s not enough, Thomas continues. Whites must also "take responsibility for any damage that has been done, and take steps to correct it." He refers to race-mongering activist Tim Wise, who warns that Trump empowers "angry white people" who “might turn to terrorism.”

Thomas then quotes race-mongering "comedian" Kamau Bell, who says that whites need to police Trump and the racists among their own because “white people listen to other white people better than they listen to anyone else.”

To that end, Thomas plugs Dara Silverman's organization Showing Up for Racial Justice, which aims to organize 7 million whites who will pledge to combat racism in their daily lives. It's not enough for whites who disagree with Trump simply to joke about him; they need to "vow to work with their neighbors – for many of whom America was never particularly 'great'" in order to change "the society that allowed him to come to prominence."
So come on, all you privileged white people, don't let Donald Trump speak for you and conduct his racist politics in your name - you know, like blacks did with Barack Obama.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/la-times-whites-must-take-responsibility-donald-trump

[rangerrebew]

It seems only equitable, then, that blacks take full responsibility for Obama once the crap hits the fan after he leaves office.

[Scottftlc]

I have to ask then, who takes responsibility for the garbage that is the LA Times?

[EC]

People of colour police their own?

Detroit and Chicago says they do a piss-poor job of it, so I guess we can half-ass taking responsibility for Trump.

[rangerrebew]

People of colour police their own?

Detroit and Chicago says they do a piss-poor job of it, so I guess we can half-ass taking responsibility for Trump.

Those cities could be viewed in a different light.  The thugs kill so many other thugs in those cities, the cost of prosecution must have gone down tremendously AND without police involvement so in one respect they are doing a tremendous job.

[PzLdr]

When blacks take responsibility for: Their homicide rate, their out of wedlock birthrate, their crime rate, their dependence on the dole, and the pathology they call their 'community'