Princeton Professor Eddie Grad Jr. said on Monday about the “deadline” for MSNBC that Americans believe the constitution is the ruler's document.
But he says there is a “the idea beneath it” that this country “must always be a white country.”
“We could talk about the right empire. We could talk about our relationship with the Philippines, Cuba. Teddy Roosevelt has a kind of definition of US foreign policy,” Grode said. I can talk about the moments that imagine white Anglo-Saxonism. I am talking about the end of the 19th and 20th centuries. So Donald Trump is known by democratic principles, ironic and contradictory kinds of positions. This means that we are returning to the time when we imagined ourselves as the power of the empire.”
He continued. “And that was the case, I want to say this, I always say there was this tension between America and America, as blood and soil. This is a thing of good nationalism and bad nationalism. It's a distinction. I think we're driven by the Constitution, but underneath it was the idea that this country should always be a white country.”
Glaude added: “And that ideology drives policy decisions. And what's interesting about the present moment is that we have a second golden age. We are reaffirming the power of the US empire. It has the latest clarification of white hegemony at the same time.”
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