Identity Politics Is, And Always Has Been, A Whitewash…

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Identity politics is a term Republicans love to hate. There is really nothing there, there. It is all a scam, and has been since day one. They do not care about others except themselves. They want their lives to be better than others, period. The ideas people of color use to differentiate their situation, are not bad or good in the mind of Republicans, only to be refuted, then whitewashed away. They have no arguments to back up their criticisms or pronouncements. Everything is based on holding power, which has corrupted Republicans absolutely.

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Republicans see their white identity as the only valid one. The American identity therefore must be white and mostly male, and any identity challenging whites must be pushed aside, pushed back, and pushed down. Challenging their identity is the identity politics they despise. Tagging on any other identity as requiring more representation and power, is similar to Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Denmark Vesey, or Phillis Wheatley challenging white supremacy in our first one hundred years.

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These whites continue to hate any slights to their power. Hating on other identities is a subconscious reflex just like police officers shooting, and choking to death people of color without any remorse or care. How else could our legislative and legal system just shrug when none of these officers are convicted of any crimes let alone being jailed for any amount of time, and many keeping their jobs?! Their pale pink sphincter muscles would pinch off their lily-white asses if their children were killed so egregiously, indiscriminately, and often.

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What kind of nation allows this kind of consistent throughout our history horror, and merely shrugs? Yes, we have made progress. But all the reaching around corners of history we must do to find these advances is the sickening act of pathetic parroting patriots. None of these white pathetic patriots would call this a free country if it was their white identity suffering in this era of great progress!

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Our extensive promotion of liberty and freedom negates our meager progress, only significant when compared with our start by enslaving millions, and never really ending the first Jim Crow. Steven Pinker positivity has no place in such a mostly white freedom, 2nd-appendage-rubbing, and Republican liberty lathering, society.

What White Identity And Power Achieves:

  1. Tell me how these slithering saints of American success justify a wealth disparity of $17,000 average for Black Americans and $171,000 for whites? If that is progress, white identity equals math illiteracy!

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2. The incarceration of Black Americans at six times the rate of whites constitutes a freedom floundering and liberty libelous nation.

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3. How does progress really happen? By actually funding schools equally! People of color, about 25 million students, receive over $900 per student less than whites on average. Our score on education progress rates as a 6th world nation, when compared to our fake freedom fries and liberty lies.

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4. Black Americans are half as likely to have healthcare than whites. And Black Americans are twice as likely to be underinsured than whites. That means millions of Americans, of all races not having coverage, or not enough. How does premature death equate with our diagnostics on liberty, and freedom?

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5. How does a persistent level of mortgage market discrimination over 40 years equate to freedom and liberty progress?Again, positivity is a pretty neat thing when you are on the other side of these statistics.

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White Identity is Identity.

Whites cannot allow other identities to have a say, otherwise whites would need to admit to the sins above, and many others. Their whitewashing has been effectively hidden from legislative, legal, ethical, and moral scrutiny for centuries. There is no way to overcome white identity any time soon without an overwhelming concerted effort. Too many whites are drone bees in the hive of whitewashed ignorance, or are in a go-along-to-get-along stupor.

The website above was noted in Stacey Abram’s book, Our Time Is Now.

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The way to do it is to offer everyone, not fully caught in the white identity clutching and clinging to conspiracy claptrap, a better way forward. Most whites will follow a better path, it is just very hard to see the new within what is offered. The ideas are good, but the delivery methods are all the same, have not changed for decades, and will not change until Republicans loosen their grip. There is no change, until there is change. That is the paradoxical rub.

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The system I propose provides a platform that disrupts the paradox, creating a parallel reality that does an end-a-round the current political structure. It is not a third party. It is not a policy think tank. It is not your daddy’s contraption. Unless you are one of our two-twenty something daughters. The way forward can do much more than anything else out there because it turns the tables on how we approach solutions in the United States. For example, it can eliminate all illegal and unethical discriminatory hiring practices. I call it our We The People System, a nationwide connective, advocacy and participatory technology, and boots-on-the-ground platform.

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We The People, neighborhood to national watchdogs, advocates, and conveners developing, implementing, and managing our diverse solutions and activities. Workers and citizens together achieving more than ever before. It is the massive, strategic, influential, countervailing force we require today! We will finally overwhelm the billionaire bullies, their bought politicians, and the white identity supremacist cowards. Think big, do more, and create better!

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More about the WTP System below…

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By Richard The Chwalek.


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