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70sEraVet

(4,964 posts)
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 10:52 AM Sunday

I was doing an online search for "trump starting race war"

I have absolutely no doubt that many of his advisors (Stephen Miller immediately comes to mind) are creaming their jeans at the thought of starting a full-blown race war, and that trump could view a race war as a way to consolidate and retain power indefinitely.
Anyway, I came across this article from five years ago. The writer wanders around through history a bit, and then hits upon some clever points -- the main point being, that America has always been in a race war.

If there was a race war in America, we’d know. First of all, whites would start arming themselves while preventing black people from doing so. White people would probably start killing people indiscriminately but everyone would deny there was a problem. The government would probably start surveilling outspoken black people and monitoring protests. They’d jail innocent black people for crimes they didn’t commit and give us longer sentences for the crimes we did commit.

If there was a race war, black women would die from stuff like giving birth. If there was a race war, the country would criminalize black children from birth. If there was a race war, they wouldn’t even care about educating black students. If there was a race war, black people would disproportionately die from disease and lack of nutrition. If there was a race war, they wouldn’t even let us vote and, if we did, they’d just throw our votes away.


https://www.theroot.com/is-donald-trumps-twitter-account-trying-to-start-a-race-1844208321
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