Being a candidate for President Donald Trump in the US election is not a big deal. What is worrying is that he is representing a racist power structure. Racism has existed in the United States for centuries. Although it has been fragmented for a long time. But America has a long history of state-sponsored racism. Knowing that it has a future, President Trump has gone to great lengths to prolong this trend.
Trump can build a United States with a predominance of fierce white nationalist attitudes, if he can be elected for a second term. Of course, not only the United States, but the whole world will spread the poison of his white nationalism. Slavery was so deeply rooted in the United States that it had to face a bloody civil war to end it.
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In his famous Color of Love book, Richard Rothsteil explores how the federal government, state and local governments created and protected Afro-American ‘ghettos’ across the country in an atmosphere of white violence. Again they spread racial segregation in white cities. They enacted a large number of racist laws, which were gradually abolished by the Federal Courts and Congress in the late 1960s. But even then there is some trend of police brutality and white racism. Efforts to keep the blacks down are also noticeable in the upcoming elections. Across the country, blacks are discriminated against in employment, and almost all of the isolated residential areas of the United States remain white.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s marked a profound and far-reaching change. But that change among white conservatives created intense anti-peasant political animosity. The working class and white preachers, who had long been part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Coalition, joined the Republican Party after that change. Promised they would resist any attempt not to divide. They will support whatever policy the social conservatives formulate. In American society it is called the 'Southern Strategy'. It was because of this tactic that Richard Nixon entered the White House in 1968 and Ronald Reagan in 1970. In the same vein, some whites, with the help of evangelical groups, have been elected to senior Bush, junior Bush and Trump, respectively.
Today's young American generation has a special inclination towards racial diversity. They are proponents of diversity. They prefer to think of themselves as diverse. Because of that, they are much more advanced, educated. On college campuses, they have received co-education with children from different religions, castes and tribes. And that is what taught them greater racial tolerance.
As Trump's defeat has become much clearer, Trump is intensifying his rhetoric. Trump now needs an artificially contested vote count to retain power. He wants to see the chaos here. His most heartbreaking recent remarks about taking part in the election campaign are, "If I lose the election, I may have to leave the country."
In fact, this possibility is more. Because, his financial scandals, lifelong tax evasion and other issues like law and justice will chase him.
If for some reason Trump can retain his power, a blatantly racist U.S. government will become intimidating internally and globally. White extremists, who are already reckless internally, could start open violence across the country. And on the global stage, Trump election supporters have a desire to go to war with China. Due to anti-China racism and historical ignorance, a ‘xenophobia’ is now at work among them.
All in all, the implication is that in the coming weeks, a bleak picture will emerge, and the world will not be safe until Trump leaves.