proud republican wrote:
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/533504-pelosi-says-r****rs-chose-their-whiteness-over-democracy
The article does not make it clear, what "Race" has to do with it.
I suspect Ms Pelosi did not make it clear, either.
2 or 3 other repliers have explained it better than the article did.
(a) To some of us, Trump supporters seem a lot more r****t than we are. That's because of what they say, how they talk, what they do, and what they want to do or which policies they support or reject.
An aside about the terms "r****t" etc.: I believe the terms "race", "r****m", "white", "black", etc. are often misused or overused. (Sometimes some other word, like "poor", is a more relevant description of the situation.) But it is still true that there's a lot of r****m in the U.S.A. It's real, not just something imagined. Black people see it and suffer it. A lot of white people (including myself) don't usually notice it much, but it's real anyway -- we just aren't right there in the middle of it where we have to see it. Murders (or "k*****gs") such as that of G****e F***d and Trayvon Martin have a heavy r****t element in them; that's because the reason they were murdered (or "k**led") is mainly that they were black -- not necessarily that the k**ler thought "I'll k**l him because he's black" but because the k**ler is used to thinking that a black person must be guilty of something, or dangerous, or that it's more acceptable to k**l a black person. If G****e F***d or Trayvon Martin had been white but in the same exact place doing the same exact thing and with the same exact history, then it's much less likely they'd have been murdered (or, "k**led").
(b) The J*** 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol building (for example) is being compared and contrasted to (for example) the June 1 protest against police brutality (
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials ). In one of those two events, a lot of armed people broke into the U.S. Capitol, k**led at least one police officer in there, ransacked the place, and threatened lawmakers. In the other event, a lot of people were (apparently) not armed and were just standing around holding up signs and perhaps chanting something. So, in which event is a heavy police action used to stop those people? And why that event and not the other?
If you think about those two events, and compare what happened, pretty soon you'll realize that race is a factor in why one group was treated one way, and the other group was treated in a much different way:
What would have happened if a few thousand black people showed up at the U.S. Capitol building and broke into it and k**led a police officer in there and ransacked the place and threatened lawmakers? The police response would have been swift, tear gas would have been used quickly, & police would have gotten violent: it would have been a big police response really soon in the event. But in the actual event on J*** 6 when white people were breaking into the Capitol building, it took an hour or two before the police or national guard did much about it.
What would have happened if white people had gathered with signs in front of the White House and maybe chanted something and were standing around, not invading any building, and not saying anything about "Black L***s M****r" or anything like that, but were instead protesting about something not having anything to do with "white", "black", or "race"? What if they were protesting about the p**********l e******n? How would they have been treated? Would the police in full r**t gear have come out and teargassed them and used concussion grenades against them?