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Sherry Bellamy's avatar

The white supremacists who now completely control the Republican Party are always in search of the next target to hate.

Their latest bogeyman is CRT even though they have no idea what it means.

But Republicans have been targeting one group or another for focused hatred for decades. Under Reagan it was the poor, the so-called welfare queen, supposedly stealing white people’s tax revenues. Under Nixon it was the anti war activists, and the hatred was whipped into such a frenzy that national guard troops shot and killed peaceful protesters, on multiple college campuses, with impunity. Under Bush the target of hatred became Muslims, the “terrorists” who supposedly hated us for our freedom, rather than recognizing that a handful of fanaticists actually were attacking us because they were in a war and we were funding their opponents.

There will always be targets of Republican hate because they are a minority party whose actual beliefs are unacceptable to the majority of Americans. So they need to stir up fear and hatred in order to get voters to act against their own best interests.

And sadly there will always be white voters who fall for this Republican BS because white Americans have been taught to hate the “other” since they were children. Republicans channel this hate by giving those Americans a target every single election cycle.

That target is often, although not always, Black people and CRT is just another excuse to attack us.

But we African Americans will #StayWoke in spite of white supremacist Republicans. We have no choice.

What I wonder is will enough white Americans stay woke with us? Will enough white Americans renounce their culture of hate so this country can survive? They did in 2020 when we elected Biden. Will they do it again in 2024 or will we really devolve into another Civil War as Republicans seem to want? That choice is what every white person in this country should be asking themselves.

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Al Bellenchia's avatar

Elvis Costello once asked musically, “What’s so funny about peace love and understanding?” They are not the norm, and are losing the public. Thus they manufacture boogeymen to fight. They are becoming more ridiculous by the day.

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