What is disturbing about Rosanne’s tweet is that she isn’t alone. The ugliness of her racist rhetoric is matched by the president and embraced, if not echoed, by significant numbers of white people. This talk, it is sometimes forgotten, is more than abhorrent and repugnant. It is the ideological mortar of public and private policies and institutions that produce and reproduce the material and enduring reality of racist exploitation and oppression. It also underlies the ascendancy of right wing extremism, the rise of Trump and Trumpism, and the long run of capitalist class rule. Finally, it is the ground floor of white racialized thinking.
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Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
