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What's wrong with too many white men in one place?
Topic Started: May 26 2017, 03:37 PM (65 Views)
Copper
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Those men with light colored skin are just no good.

And cnn is doing something about it.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/us/too-many-white-men/index.html

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What's wrong with too many white men in one place?

President Donald Trump helped the nation reach a rare moment of racial reconciliation, but hardly anyone noticed.

It was sparked by a recent White House photo op, when Trump gathered with Republican leaders to celebrate the House passing a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.

The event looked like the board meeting of an all-white-male golf club. Photos from the ceremony showed a phalanx of middle-aged white men heartily congratulating one another, with no woman or person of color in sight.

Some photos released later did show some women at the event. But the surplus of white testosterone in the images sparked widespread outrage. One critic tweeted: "Message from another white guy: Yes, this is way too many white men in one place." Another white guy complained about a pattern of "overwhelming white maleness" in Trump administration photos. Someone even started a hashtag: #governmentsowhite.

Lost in the criticism of those images, though, was something to celebrate: Many white people now get uneasy about seeing too many white guys in positions of power. The notion that the nation's leaders should look like the people they represent is becoming widely accepted.

But could the Trump administration make images of white men wielding all the power seem normal again?

It'll never happen, says historian Jerald Podair -- the United States is too racially diverse. The Trump Rose Garden photo bothered Podair but didn't change his view about the nation's future.

"Whites will not look at an all-white picture again and just take it for granted that it's normal," says Podair, a professor of history and American studies at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. "The demographic changes in America are continuing and inexorable."

But what if the white male throwback optics aren't just annoying, but dangerous?

Many people said this country would never return to the days when white people would casually sling the N-word at African-Americans in public; curse out Latinos for speaking Spanish; and openly call for a lynching.

But it has. All of that actually took place over the past seven days in America.

We've entered an era in which traditional rules no longer apply.



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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
I wonder if they've seen the G7 pics yet.
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