Sunday, February 28, 2016

White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it

White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it - Salon.com:
For 500 years, they've exploited their fellow man and plundered the planet.
It's time they rein themselves in
White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
AlterNetThe future of life on the planet depends on bringing the 500-year rampage of the white man to a halt.
For five centuries his ever more destructive weaponry has become far too common.
His widespread and better systems of exploiting other humans and nature dominate the globe.
The time for replacing white supremacy with new values is now. 
And just as some whites played a part in ending slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow segregation, and South African apartheid, there is surely a role whites can play in restraining other whites in this era.
Beneath the sound and fury generated by GOP presidential candidates, Fox News, website trolls, police unions and others, white people are becoming aware as never before of past and present racism.
Admittedly, this encouraging development is hardly the dominant view.
To the contrary, given the possibility that Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson or one of their ilk might become president, white supremacist ideology seems to be digging in harder than ever.
I don’t take this lightly.
Once upon a time I foolishly thought that there was no way that Ronald Reagan could get elected president.
Lesson learned.
Now is the time to start contingency planning for intensified resistance to mass deportations of immigrants, atrocities against Muslims and extreme danger to African Americans..."
Read on....they're going crazy!

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