I was listening to Thom Hartmann's radio broadcast this afternoon. A self described racist called in. He firmly felt that whites were racially superior to blacks. He felt that the Civil War was not justified. He felt that plantation mentality had a virtue in that whites had a better vision about how to run things.

He noted the “dog whistle” aspects of Donald Trump. He explicitly used the term dog whistle. He obviously understood that these were coded messaged to racists that would not be understood by the wider public. He highly valued these particular messages from Trump. It allowed him to understand what Trump was thinking. He was therefor a passionate supporter of Trump and he asserted that all of his racist friends also supported Trump.

My Comments:

I was astonished and disgusted that anyone could call in to a progressive program with this attitude. Apparently he exists in a social matrix where explicit racism remains very visible and celebrated. I had already had the possible fascism of Trump as a topic of our discussion group tomorrow. This extremely ugly racism is clearly an element of major concern for us all.

Don