White millenials voted for Trump 48% to 42%
White women voted for Trump 53% to 43%
White college graduates voted for Trump 49% to 45%The problem isn’t babyboomers, men or ignorance. The problem is white supremacy.
The problem with this post is that it’s comparing whites to whites. Not blacks to blacks or blacks to whites. This is complete bull shit sorry
Black men voted Hillary 82% to 13%
Black women voted Hillary 94% to 4%Latino men voted Hillary 63% to 32%
Latino women voted Hillary 69% to 25%Black millenials voted Hillary 85% to 9%
Latinos millenials voted Hillary 68% to 26%Non-whites college graduates voted Hillary 72% to 22%
All of these are from the same exit poll I used for my original post: http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/national/president
It is hard to find a single white demographic that did not come up with a Trump majority (white college graduated women some up with a 51% for Hillary, a small margin indeed) and there is not a single non-white demographic that came up with a Trump majority or came anywhere near it.
I encourage you to look through those exit poll results for yourself. CNN has extensive and well-researched exit polls and the difference in the numbers is far too big to be explained away by a margin of error.
Statistically the strongest defining feature of the Trump supporter is whiteness.
Does this mean the majority of white people actively hate people of color and voted for Trump because they wanted a racist in charge? No. That’s not how white supremacy works.
What it does mean it that, as a result of white supremacy, a LOT of white people who consider themselves ‘not racist’, ignored Trump’s racism and voted for him anyway. A lot of white people did not care about people of color enough to not vote for Trump.
That’s white surpemacy’s biggest feature: apathy to the point of allowing people to die because you can’t be bothered to keep them safe.
I thought I should reblog this old post again for all the people who are caught up in an old-fashioned Red Scare and fully prepared to accept the removal of ‘divisive political messages’ (which, surprise surprise, seems to focus on BLM) because the government said they’re spies.
People of color, even though many were utterly repulsed by Hillary’s racist neoliberalist bullshit, still voted for her because they realized a white supremacist is worse.
‘Divisive political messages’ didn’t change that. A few silly Tumblr blogs can’t change that.You are distracting yourself.
I know living under a neo-fascist government is scary and it’s comforting to place blame on people and places that are far from you. But you won’t find the cause or the answer to your problems there.
The problem is still white supremacy.
The answer starts with fighting white supremacy.
As someone who is white as a sheet and has a family of Republicans, I would like to point something out. Most people with white skin really find white supremacy disgusting. I go to a church that sadly is mostly a white pep platoon because of the people who owned the land a hundred years ago, and as of a few years ago all my friends were white. I have NEVER encountered a white supremacist. However, most people I know that voted for trump simply did not agree with any of Hillary’s policies (morally). They tried to get another republican to be president, but in the end for them it was better to vote Trump because the other members of his office were respectable people and because Hillary is against so many core Christian values. It had nothing AT ALL to do with white supremacy
I really wish people would stop talking so much about this because the result is whenever a white person is in a group of any wine who isn’t white, they are shamed for things they didn’t do (at least where I live). It is secondhand bullying just because of politics and labels shoved in innocent people
Let me clarify what I mean when I say white supremacy. White supremacy is a systematic mentality that runs deep through our cultures. It is often far more subtle than being a member of the KKK and you do not have to identify as a white supremacist to enact white supremacy.
[White supremacy is] political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings.
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Frances Lee Ansley
White supremacy as a system is all the little ways in which we treat white experiences as universal, in which we describe to white standards of beauty, in which we sympathize faster with white characters than with characters of color, in which we intuitively estimate a white student to be smarter than a student of color that performs equally well. White supremacy is in a thousand little details that we don’t think about.
Prioritizing white history in the school curriculum is an act of white supremacy. Calling young activists in the March for our Lives ‘brave’ and young activists in Black Lives Matters ‘thugs’ is an act of white supremacy. Reimagining ancient egypt and medieval history as white-only is an act of white supremacy. Being at a scientific conference and not noticing that everyone is white or noticing and not seeing the violent proces of exclusion in that is an act of white supremacy.
I spend a lot of my time on anti-racist activism and I have done so for many years and I am still painfully aware of how much of my thoughts and emotions and actions are subtly influenced by white supremacy. Every single white person I know is, in some parts, a white supremacist. No one has rid themselves of every detail of that mentality that defines so much of how we experience the world around us.
So, yes, considering yourself and others ‘innocent people’ when you take no action to dismantle the systems of racism that you benefit from is an act of white supremacy. And yes, voting for a political candidate which you know will enact incredibly racist policies, but prioritising other aspects of his politics, is an act of white supremacy. Caring so little about people of color that you would support a cartoon stereotype of a racist is absolutely an act of white supremacy.
If most white people cared about people of color enough, if they really treated people of color as humans of equal value, they would never vote for someone as racist as Trump no matter how much they liked the rest of his ideas. It would be as unthinkable as voting for Hitler or Satan. But they don’t care enough. That’s white supremacy.
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