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White America Must Take Responsibility For Its profound Stupidity
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The tsunami is here.
Years of foreboding is now a reality.
Commentators who paid attention to the state of affairs in America knew that a complete collapse was in the offing and they did their hardest in educating and warning us, but some folks in our midst weren’t interested and others were simply too stupid to grasp the extremity of what was unfolding.
Anyone who has read Michael Lewis’ fifth risk and his latest offering-who is government- would appreciate that the real work of ensuring that government functions optimally, is done by thousands of nameless and faceless individuals.
But try telling that to millions of white folk who voted Trump in the hope that he would make America great again.
No one who has read the author of Flash Boys, Liar’s Poker, The Big Short, would have voted for the convicted felon, but the issue here is that the vast majority of Americans read at grade 8 level actually went with Trump, which is a massive indictment of the entire system.
And much more importantly, it speaks to a system which has plumbed for bigotry at the expense of egalitarianism and meritocracy right through the centuries.