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It won’t pay

Re: racism. It won’t pay, and it cannot endure.

We can debate endlessly whether the president is a racist, whether he meant to blow racist dog-whistles with his “go back” tweets against four female Democratic congresswomen of color, or whether he was just expressing frustration at those who oppose him and his policies.

And we can vote our convictions next year.

In the end, overt racism, by those who openly avow white nationalism, cannot win.

Half a century after the Civil Rights movement that extended voting rights and brought about the integration of public schools, racism has become a losing theme in American politics.

People of differing ethnicities have worked and studied and lived alongside each other long enough now that the majority of Americans see the great truth. The truth is that under the differences in skin, origin, language and religion, most of us want basically the same thing: security, prosperity and opportunity.

Familiarity has bred greater fam...

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