Unpopular opinion: Trump isn't teargassing the citizens of Portland IN SPITE OF their whiteness. He's doing it BECAUSE OF their whiteness... https://twitter.com/JerseyDutchGirl/status/1286274666508754945
Let's be real here...white supremacy has only worked for 400 years because white people (consciously or not) have upheld it. When a critical mass of white people decide that they will no longer ignore it or tolerate it, the system collapses. If a critical mass of white people...
Decide to be consciously anti-racist and then openly resist white supremacy, then white supremacy becomes unsustainable...
What does it mean if white people are beaten, gassed, detained without charges by black ops federal agents?
It means that the American government is highly invested in maintaining white supremacy, so invested that it is making a show of punishing white people who speak out. This is the Trump administration's attempt at halting white allyship.
Trust me, their is a reason Trump kicked off this 2nd Civil War in Portland, one of the whitest major cities in the US.
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