Still, it's not a privilege

The White Rebellion

It is not a privilege not to be lynched, denied a job, denied recognition or promotion, treated abusively or with contempt, or excluded from participation in politics or from the vote by members of the racial majority solely because you are not of their race.

It is an injustice and in many cases an actual crime to be so abused.

Hence resentful and accusing talk of so-called "white skin privilege" is annoying bullshit that, in the end, amounts to resentment of the white majority because it is white and the majority. 

All the same, this is a perceptive article by Charles Blow, though it is certainly overdoing it to characterize as "petrifying fear" the resentment and alarm of some whites as those injustices wane and monuments honoring whites who fought for slavery, many erected by other whites as an affirmation of white supremacy, are finally pushed over like so many statues in Eastern Europe of Marx or Lenin.

And, anyway, it is more a question of contemporary whites fearing loss of majority status as some (many) of the whites in the South at the end of the Civil War feared, literally feared, the freed slaves.

A point Blow makes very well.

And this is dead on.

Remember the expression, "Obama derangement syndrome"?

A 2016 analysis, also published in The Post, found that “economic anxiety isn’t driving racial resentment. 

"Racial resentment is driving economic anxiety.”

When one accepts this rationale, the inexplicable becomes rather easy to explain.

How could anyone vote for this buffoonish character, and how can they continue to support him even as he makes a fool of himself and a mockery of America?

Simply put, Trump is one of the last gasps of American white supremacy and patriarchy. 

He is one of its Great White Hopes.

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Trump is white anguish encapsulated.