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| Source:edition.cnn.com/politics The last
decade has seen an unparalleled wave of movements supporting ethnic and racial minorities.
What springs to mind for many I am sure, is the Black Lives Matter movement. Following the
recent peak of the BLM protests after the killing of George Floyd, numbers exhibited
this to be the country’s largest movement in all of its history. However, it
was countered by the concept of “All Lives Matter”, which is the ultimate
symbol of a majority embracing a minority mindset. Now there
are hundreds of white people in the US who complain that they are at threat or
under attack. Many of them refuse to see or acknowledge their white privilege
but will gladly use it to their advantage. To put this
into perspective for you, many white people claim bias against them despite the
undeniable history of white people perpetrating discrimination, violence, and injustices
against all minorities in the US. Despite
every US President, except for one, being a white male. Despite the
fact that the majority of business CEOs are white males. Despite an indisputable
majority of white males across the US Congress and Senate. Despite all
of this, many white Americans believe in the genuine experience of racial
discrimination against white people. They believe that movements supporting non
white communities have gone too far and now overlook the equality of white people.
This is why the manipulative slogan “All Lives Matter” exists – it allows those
individuals to deny white privilege and somehow place their so-called experiences
of discrimination on a similar level as black Americans. Who is
fuelling this toxic mindset? Donald Trump. Many around the
world welcomed the Obama presidency as a tool to start building a truly equal
America and never saw the damaging effects of the Trump administration. Throughout his
presidency, Trump has been unmoving in his racial attitudes toward black
Americans, Muslims, Mexicans, and other minorities. He has made a point of villainizing
“the other” in every way possible – whether it be that they are ‘terrorists and
rapists’, ‘thugs’, or ‘job stealers’, Trump has exploited every label and used
it to paint the picture that white America, ‘the true America’, is under
threat. Now, with
Kamala Harris running alongside Joe Biden, Trump will be unforgiving in his
racist and sexist attacks as he demands that America should not fall into the
hands of a black woman. Something that he will definitely be tapping into. Those people
that believe white Americans are under attack? Those are the people who will criticise
Biden for welcoming a black woman into this position. Sadly, it is inevitable that both Harris’ gender and race will be used against her by Trump in an aim to exploit the vulnerabilities of white Americans and Biden will be portrayed as actively bringing white Americans ‘under attack’. Thank you for reading! Aman |
