Racism is learned behavior. He learned it from his Dad. Unfortunately, racism is in all cultures. But it’s learned behavior. Kids don’t know racism. My kids grew up overseas and in the international schools, strangely, there did not seem to be racism of skin color. My kids did not see racism of skin color until they moved back to the states when they were in 2nd and 5th grade. They didn’t understand. I had to explain it to them. I loved that when they were in international schools, that they identified each other by country. They found each other on the map. They celebrated that they could find their friend’s country on the map. The schools promoted pride in the diversity of kids from different countries. Skin color was not in my children’s vocabulary until they moved back to the US. Which was sad. They were kind of shocked that that was a thing.,

different environments, and how they shape perception. A number of us come from military backgrounds, going to different schools, seeing, being amoung, any number of different cultures. Going out into the civilian world was the first time I encountered overt racism, and I just did not understand it at all. I still don't.

"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught".

I’m thrilled that my kids did not grow up with it as I did in the South. Luckily, I came from a family that rejected racism. So, I was fortunate. But, I grew up with so much of it in the friends and people around me.
When we moved to NY when my youngest was in 2nd grade they taught, in school, about Martin Luther King and my kids were mortified. I found myself having to explain it, realizing that they had just discovered racism. In a way, it was heartbreaking. In a way I was embarrassed. But I also realized how fortunate they were not to grow up in that culture of racism that I had grown up in. They are the most accepting people I know. I am so glad that they grew up in that expat environment with friends from all over the world

elementary years on military bases going to school and hanging out with kids from all over, and then later into a race based civilian society. Only my own understanding / conclusion of it was that the latter was all founded upon complete bs.

In fact I think that background afforded me keener perception of exactly what was complete bs, than contemporaries who grew up with it and therefore, perhaps, came to... I dunno... expect it maybe?

I was one of those who challenged/questioned teachers, priests, nuns, basically all authority figures, wherever I was. Why? or, why not? to almost everything. That has not changed all these decades later!

is an overarching obsession with exacting vengeance for humiliation and rejection by the NY/DC "elite"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221184876

seem to have missed it originally.

Ty for sharing.

I've not seen anyone put it together like this. Certainly not our "Fourth Estate" that continues to approach his motives as if he is a normally-adjusted, law-abiding citizen. They know full well he is not but still ask "why does trump do [xyz]" instead of "what more damage can we expect from this specimen."

Great post.

suit against him and his father recently, and then, of course, the almost daily listing of the latest targets, and suddenly, it all tied together. The question is, how do we stop him? Spineless, grifting, complicit congress, useless press, broken system. I wish I had a viable answer.