Friday 3 August 2012
Historically, the way that white ethnics and other new arrivals to the United States earned their full “whiteness” was by distancing themselves from black Americans, engaging in violence against them, and doing anything possible to internalize and reproduce the country’s civic and social culture of de facto and de jure white supremacy. In leading a campaign which to this point has deployed some of the most sophisticated racial dog-whistles yet seen in American politics, Mitt Romney has demonstrated that he knows this history quite well. Tales of a Race-Baiting Mormon: The Personal and Political Hypocrisy of Mitt Romney ☀
