Our
greatest civil rights leader was clear:
Those
who remain silent will also stand accused.
Published:
January 15, 2018 at 05:00AM
from
NYT Opinion
Will America
Choose King’s Dream or Trump’s Nightmare?
The Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
speaking to the crowd gathered at the
Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, in 1963.
Credit
Bob Adelman,
via Library of Congress
Let’s come
clean:
President Trump is a white racist!
Over the past few days, many have
written, spoken and shouted this fact,
but it needs repeating:
President Trump
is a white racist!
Why repeat it?
Because many have been under the grand
illusion
that America is a
“post-racial”
nation,
a beautiful melting pot where
racism is only sporadic, infrequent and expressed by those on the margins of an
otherwise mainstream and “decent” America.
That’s a lie; a blatant one at that.
We must face a very horrible truth.
And
America is so cowardly
when it comes to
facing awful truths about itself.
The
point here is that white America was caught facing a moral quandary.
The Nazis
were saying that white America, in many ways, is like us.
Hence,
undergirding
this critique of America is the implication that
the Nazis approved of white
America’s racist treatment of black people —
you know,
the ones taken from that
“shithole” known as Africa.
A
continent, not a country Stupid!
A
continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth.
They are generally
identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with up to seven
regions commonly regarded as continents.
These are
(from largest in size to
smallest):
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and
Australia.
In geology, areas of continental crust include regions covered with
water.
