If you support a known racist and vote for him, then you are a racist. I believe that. With the racial problems in our country, and throughout its history, a non-racist would never vote for a racist.Sadly though, in the recent election, about 60% of white voters voted for Donald Trump -- a person that has a history of being a racist throughout his life. Those voters cannot say they didn't know he is a racist. He has made that very clear in his words and actions.
That means a majority of whites in the United States are racists. Frankly, I am ashamed of my fellow whites, and they should be ashamed of themselves.
This should be a wake-up call to those who were thinking that racism is not a big problem in this country. It is, and as long as 3 out of 5 whites support and vote for racists, it will remain a racist country.
The following is just a tiny part of an excellent op-ed by Charles M. Blow in The New York Times:
After all that Donald Trump has done, all the misery he has caused, all the racism he has aroused, all the immigrant families he has destroyed, all the people who have left this life because of his mismanagement of a pandemic, still roughly half of the country voted to extend this horror show.
Let me be specific and explicit here: White people — both men and women — were the only group in which a majority voted for Trump, according to exit polls. To be exact, nearly three out of every five white voters in America are Trump voters.
It is so unsettling to consider that many of our fellow countrymen and women are either racists or accommodate racists or acquiesce to racists.
