Tim Wise (as usual) recently nailed a discussion about race and health care. Namely, why is it, really, that people are so against this program? The answer? Because overt government support of Americans has become so racially coded in the American mind that such programs equal "helping lazy welfare queens" or giving more entitlements to "illegal aliens" and, once again, Republicans and America, Inc. have convinced what I think are a lot of well-meaning white Americans to vote against their own interests in favor of sustaining a necessary sense of superiority through racial paranoia.
This statement is a generalization; clearly you can oppose healthcare without the racial paranoia. But the racial taint is here. It is visceral. And, dear white reader, I'm asking for your help to try to knock it back.
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