Trump Voters Motivated By Racism May Be Violating The Constitution

What is truly racist is trying to make white people feel guilty for voting for white people.

By Every Single Time American Noah Berlatsky


If the Trump era has taught us anything, it's that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth. Donald Trump ran an openly racist campaign for president, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, regularly retweeting white supremacists and at least initially balking at repudiating former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Trump made it clear in his campaign that "Make America Great Again" meant that America was greater when white people's power was more sweeping and more secure. White voters approved of that message by a whopping 58 percent to 37 percent.

Some politicians deny the evidence, no doubt because they don't want to alienate white voters, including prejudiced ones. Other commentators try to parse whether Trump's racism will be a winning strategy in 2020. Terry Smith, a visiting professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, offers a different response in his new book, "Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box." Rather than excuse racist voters or try to figure out how to live with their choices, he argues that racist voting is not just immoral, but illegal. The government, Smith says, has the ability, and the responsibility, to address it.

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"When voters go to the booth, they're not expressing a mere personal preference," Smith told me. According to Smith, voters who pull the levers to harm black people are violating the Constitution. If the Constitution means that overt racist appeals undermine the legality of union elections, it stands to reason that they undermine the legality of other elections, as well.

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Except one little fact everyone leaves out Racism is not a crime or illegal...it's an opinion...just like saying democrats are idiot.

Except one little fact everyone leaves out Racism is not a crime or illegal...it's an opinion...just like saying democrats are idiot.

We didn't do nothing!!!

By Every Single Time American Noah Berlatsky


If the Trump era has taught us anything, it's that large numbers of white people in the United States are motivated at least in part by racism in the voting booth. Donald Trump ran an openly racist campaign for president, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals, regularly retweeting white supremacists and at least initially balking at repudiating former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Trump made it clear in his campaign that "Make America Great Again" meant that America was greater when white people's power was more sweeping and more secure. White voters approved of that message by a whopping 58 percent to 37 percent.

Some politicians deny the evidence, no doubt because they don't want to alienate white voters, including prejudiced ones. Other commentators try to parse whether Trump's racism will be a winning strategy in 2020. Terry Smith, a visiting professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, offers a different response in his new book, "Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box." Rather than excuse racist voters or try to figure out how to live with their choices, he argues that racist voting is not just immoral, but illegal. The government, Smith says, has the ability, and the responsibility, to address it.

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"When voters go to the booth, they're not expressing a mere personal preference," Smith told me. According to Smith, voters who pull the levers to harm black people are violating the Constitution. If the Constitution means that overt racist appeals undermine the legality of union elections, it stands to reason that they undermine the legality of other elections, as well.

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You know nothing about me.

I know your as big an idiot as the OP you defend.

Stun us with all the accomplishments you have in your life!

I double dare you too amaze us!

I'm not American, so I'm not a Trump voter.

But I'm sure as heck motivated by racism! Why shouldn't I be?

I'm white!

I like white people.

I like to live in societies that work the way white people make them.

I want there to be such societies in the future, and so I want a future for the white race.

The white race can only have a future if there is some place left on the planet where whites are left alone.

Blacks have Africa, so they'll never go extinct.

Asians have Asia, so they'll never go extinct.

Whites need a place of their own too.

Simple as that.