ENGL 344: Blog #7- Citizen and What Whiteness Means in the Trump Era

There are white people fighting for superiority in 2016 and defining what it means to be white. I have seen the true feelings, especially of white nationalists, come out after Trump was elected. People of many races and women have been yelled at, threatened and even beat up. We have regressed a lot in such a short amount of time.

I've never been so embarrassed of my skin color. I feel like my skin color now defines me as a racist, as a white nationalist, as a Trump supporter, and as a horrible person. This embarrassment as well as the assumptions people now make of the white person has made me somewhat awakened to what black people have felt all their lives. I can't say that I 100% understand but I feel I have a grasp. After reading Citizen, I see that in so many simple ways black people are discriminated against every day.

Many people have expressed their feelings on black people and people growing up with these views just get used to it. White people may not be racist towards them but they easily have many thoughts when seeing a black person based off of what they have heard all their lives. If you are told something all your life, it becomes easier to believe. I struggle with this myself. Yet, I am not racist and truly want freedom, respect, and righteousness for all. Why does it have to be so hard? We're all human. But lately it seems like people have regressed to white superiority. They have forgotten something simple: dividing up America is not going to make us a stronger country.

I have also never been fearful of who I am: a woman. These white nationalists are against white women and their rights and many women have already been discriminated against. Just because Trump is elected doesn't mean all of multiracial America's rights and women's rights disappear. White nationalists need to be more realistic. We have huge majority of other races besides white and Trump can't possibly ignore, deport or disrespect them all. He will now have to go back on many of his promises or presumptions about his own power while in the white house.