On-point, as ever, via @umairh: "...America’s lack of progress, its failure to become a modern society, is about white Americans."

This is the central question of this election:

Is White America Really Ready to Reject Trump’s Fascism? https://buff.ly/321Unbj 

2/ "What on earth makes a person deny their own families healthcare and retirement? What the?
The answer is twofold. The first part lies in America’s sordid, grim history of racial violence and slavery."

3/ "The vast majority of white Americans have long held an attitude that goes like this: 'I won’t invest in those dirty, filthy people! In their healthcare, retirement, education! Why, they used to be my granddaddy’s slaves!...' "

4/ " 'And even if they weren’t, they’re not like us. Even if it means me not having my own public goods, I won’t invest in theirs. I’ll burn down any notion of an equal society just to preserve my own dominance.'"

/End

Oh, and another gem: "What we still call “slavery” is a euphemism for what is probably history’s greatest crime against humanity. Generations wiped out, a never-ending genocide, human lives by the millions treated with contempt, abused, exploited, for centuries."

I honestly hope Umair's wrong. But 53 years lived as a Black man in America, I know this is the core issue. So, if Trump wins, I'll be heartbroken, but not at all surprised.