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I See Brown People<\/p>\n

In 1999 M. Night Shamalyan directed his breakthrough classic, the Sixth Sense.\u00a0 The story was of a young man who could see \u201cdead people<\/a>\u201d and the psychologist who tried to help him, played by Bruce Willis. \u00a0\u00a0From the movie came an iconic line, in a high child\u2019s voice:\u00a0 \u201c\u2026 I see dead people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listening to President Trump\u2019s press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May this weekend, I reached a realization.\u00a0 With almost every action, it seems clear that President Trump \u201csees brown people.\u201d\u00a0 In the press conference, Mr. Trump praised the United Kingdom exit from the European Union, stressing that they would regain \u201ccultural control\u201d (sounding perilously close to ethnic purity) by ending the EU immigration policies.\u00a0 Those policies allow an immigrant admitted to one EU nation to move to another.\u00a0 The President spoke of Brexit, the UK\u2019s plan to leave the EU, as Britain regaining independence.<\/p>\n

This plays to some in Britain who claim that the immigration policies have made Britain \u201cbrowner\u201d mixing and \u00a0damaging their culture.\u00a0 This is not very different from the President\u2019s own base here in the United States; who believe that US immigration policy is making it the same.\u00a0From the \u201cMexican Rapist\u201d line of Mr. Trump\u2019s candidacy announcement, to the current government legal argument that they cannot return some of the children they have in custody because their parents\u2019 may not \u201c\u2026be fit;\u201d all demonstrates a view of \u201cbrown people\u201d as being different.<\/p>\n

President Trump is presenting a remarkable world-view, one that sees the existential threat of a \u201cnorth-south\u201d world conflict.\u00a0 The North is the ( (white) European and North American nations, including Russia.\u00a0 The South is the overwhelming (brown) Muslim, Hindu, and Oriental world, growing in population, and migrating to provide labor to the north.\u00a0The view sees this migration, particularly of Islam, as a direct challenge to \u201cWestern\u201d culture and power.<\/p>\n

In the US this view has also turned against immigration from Central and South America, for many of the same reasons.\u00a0 It has resonated among some Americans; uncomfortable with a land where Spanish is the native language for some, and with the increasingly different appearances and cultures.<\/p>\n

And, of course, many are being told that the Hispanic immigrants, legal or not, are criminals, or freeloaders, or here to take jobs.\u00a0 This somewhat contradictory message is complicated even more by an exceptionally low unemployment rate, combined with an exceptionally high divide between the wealthy and the poor.\u00a0 People have jobs but still feel \u201cpoor,\u201d and a racial\/cultural reason may be easier to understand than the economics of a society that has shown little real income growth for the many, while the few grow richer.<\/p>\n

President Trump is not exporting this message; he\u2019s simply tapping into an existing pattern.\u00a0 What he is doing is normalizing a view that has always been seen as racist or extremist.\u00a0 And he\u2019s gotten help from the Russian government, who for their own reasons intervened in the US, Brexit and other European elections on the side of this extremism. They were not always successful, but they did end up on the winning side of many of these contests.<\/p>\n

All of this is happening at the same time that those same Russian actions are being brought to the fore in American courts.\u00a0 The Mueller investigation indicted twelve Russian intelligence officers for hacking into political party emails and state election systems on Friday.\u00a0 The impact of the email hacks were clearly to divide the Democratic Party, to the advantage of the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump.\u00a0 What happened in the state election systems hacks is still unclear, and while no one is stating that actual voting was effected or changed, it would seem a realistic goal for Russian Intelligence.\u00a0 Why hack in if not to do something?<\/p>\n

So President Trump goes to see Mr. Putin tomorrow, for a one-on-one meeting in Helsinki.\u00a0 And while we should worry about our next elections, the Western Alliance, Russian imperialism and autocracy, and other issues: \u00a0Trump and Putin do have one thing in common, one thing we know for sure.\u00a0 They see brown people, and they don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

I am writing this from a\u00a0friend’s home\u00a0alongside the Muskingum River. \u00a0There are\u00a0several folks here, and while we all assuredly don’t agree on politics, we can still be\u00a0friends and enjoy\u00a0each other’s company. \u00a0Hopefully it’s an attitude we can return to \u00a0in America, as we struggle with the politics of division today.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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