Source: Common Dreams
by Robert C Koehler
“Basically, everyone knows that ‘making America great again’ means making America racist again—making racism the cultural norm again, unlocking the cage of political correctness and freeing, you know, regular Americans to strut again in a sense of superiority. This cultural norm was ‘stolen’ by the civil rights movement. Prior to the changes the movement wrought (I’m old enough to remember those days), polite ladies at church could say, ‘Oh my, that’s very white of you.’ And lynchings were not only normal but quasi-legal, or so it seemed, far more likely to result in postcards than convictions. To worship racism is to deny full humanity not simply to ‘them’ but to yourself. Permission to dehumanize comes from the top down. This is what the Trump era continues to teach us, as well as how politically convenient it is.” (06/07/25)