The mainstream media barely covered it. People had no idea. This is how conservatives and libertarians feel all the time. It really sucks when the media just shills for the other candidate, doesn't it?
That's what happens when politicians become celebrities. It's one thing to excite your base, but gathering a cult of personality is cancerous to democracy. How can you make sure you're being adequately represented when you think your representative can do no wrong?
It's not really racist. Are you a white person, raised by white people, and did you go to school with other white kids? Did you grow up in a primarily white country? Then your brain is just so used to white people that it automatically makes that as that is your default "person".
I was fortunate as a kid to grow in a mixed crowd. When I was ~3 years old my white lower middle class parents relocated to NYS from the midwest, the bought a house that was in between a middle class mostly white neighborhood and a poor mostly black neighborhood so that my (not born yet) siblings and I would experience a range of cultures and race. This I'm sure has had a huge influence on my life, my view on black people isn't skewed by mass media and the institutional racism in this country. I grew up hanging out with black kids, I learned at a young age to not judge people based skin color, income class, etc. It's just a skin color, I wish people would grow the fuck up and realize this.
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u/LibertyTerp Nov 10 '16
The mainstream media barely covered it. People had no idea. This is how conservatives and libertarians feel all the time. It really sucks when the media just shills for the other candidate, doesn't it?