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White Fetish and Fantasy Jesus  (Photo:   Mateus Campos Felipe   /   Unsplash ) First published on Medium . . When I was Republican white boy woke, I almost noticed something missing from before. I was seeing our color-blind caste system with new eyes. There, right in front of me, was the strangest and most unknowable sight. The outlines of something called racism, which no liberal can see in a conservative’s heart or mind, so we cannot be considered racist. . Seeing no color, due to being blind from it, I could hardly believe what I was not really seeing. In every instance where   racist data   pointed ,   gathered   by liberals, there were problems in our society. Most conservatives like myself said, those white culture discrediting data discoveries are merely remnants and residue from   Technicolor   images of the past, which we whites can no longer see. . I wish it was easier to explain away. Explaining away is such a cherished feat...

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo / Unsplash , Kettle Black . Look closely at the context when a conservative uses the epithet mob rule to denigrate democracy, or democratic actions. There is an underlying problem with this designation, and it relates to the situations where a mob is actually harmful, and where the mob rule epithet is used against positive social, political, and economic changes we demand. . In a previous essay , I noted how an angry mob , or mob mentality is what everyone is thinking of when mob rule is brought out to besmirch something that is close to pure democratic rule. Ironically, this association is never used when conservative violence-oriented belief systems are being instituted. Think about it. When there is an emotional legislative topic, such as war, abortion, guns, crime, or state killing as in the death penalty, the angry mob and mob mentality are trotted out in full force to defend their positions. Exactly where high emotional language is their stock an...