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WHITE FRIGHT

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                                                                 NO MUSLIMS ALLOWED                                                                ALL LIVES MATTER                                                        WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION                                                                 GAYS NOT SERVED                                                            MEXICANS ARE RAPISTS                                                        ISLAM ADVOCATES MURDER                                                     ILLEGALS ARE TAKING OUR JOBS                                          TAKE MY GUN FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS                                                    WE ARE A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY                                               WE NEED TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK                                                       MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN       These are the cries of today's white, Christian male.  Damn the constitution or the

AMERICA... THE DYSFUNCTIONAL PARENT

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     My 50+ years on this earth I've had many extraordinary experiences.  I've have taken advantage of everything America had to offer.  Early on, at the age of nineteen, I learned my first adult lessons about participation in the American way of life.  Regrettably, I learned sometimes America is not what it is portrayed to be.  I learned the American Dream is not necessarily the goal we chase but the way we retell the story of America.  Revisionist history is often the American Dream.  We long for the good old days, not when America was necessarily great but when we were young enough not to know any better.  Don't misunderstand me.  America has done some great things.  Technology and War are two of our greatest things.  But when you take a closer look at the "Greatness" of America you will find it was never great for all, and rarely great for most.      I am astonished how many Americans can preach the positive attributes of America while ignoring the glaring