SO, as dNA over at Jack and Jill Politics points out, the recent over-hyped brouhaha about Barack Obama's bitter Truth reveals a culturally and racially exclusive myth that has been used to keep us divided by those who seek to keep and consolidate their power:
"Real Americans" are, white working class folks from Middle America who don't like gay people, colored people, and immigrants; who have deep (institutional) religious convictions and own guns.
I guess that would make me—a natural-born citizen from Middle America who's gay, colored, immigrant-accepting, with deep (non-institutional) spiritual convictions and no guns—a foreigner in almost every way. Or worse.
I guess I could be insulted, but this meme is far too old to have much sting.
But it keeps those "real Americans" right where the powermongers want them: terrorized by poverty, insecurity, and fear.
And oh, so easy to exploit.
"Real Americans" are, white working class folks from Middle America who don't like gay people, colored people, and immigrants; who have deep (institutional) religious convictions and own guns.
I guess that would make me—a natural-born citizen from Middle America who's gay, colored, immigrant-accepting, with deep (non-institutional) spiritual convictions and no guns—a foreigner in almost every way. Or worse.
I guess I could be insulted, but this meme is far too old to have much sting.
But it keeps those "real Americans" right where the powermongers want them: terrorized by poverty, insecurity, and fear.
And oh, so easy to exploit.
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