Here's my favorite a ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at Tom Harbin.

Come. Rudy in Atlanta, Georgia, hey Rudy what's on your mind?

Tom, how you're going again?

And what's up?

You know, I guess my question to White America

is what kind of future you want for your for your kids because I mean as you as you said

cancer I mean racism is a cancer and it's it means death you know what I mean yeah over time it kills

the host right Yep. Right.

And and and I don't understand, you know, um, how, um, why don't, you know, some white Americans just don't get it.

And I mean, I'll be foolish to think that even most white people, I just, I mean, it's just, you you know I have a three year old and you know

when I when I think about her future Tom you know it it makes me want to cry.

That's a tough one.

And well, I mean, you know, hey, it's a tough one, but I mean.

You know, the problem that we have Rudy is that to to extend this metaphor but sugar can cause cancer I mean that's one of the things that we now

know and the sugar that we have in our

political culture is the use of race to win elections something that Richard

Nixon started very intentionally in the

Republican Party in the 1968 that Ronald Reagan picked up and ran with when Paul Manafort

was running Ronald Reagan's Southern strategy and

then when Paul Manafort ran him at water, Lee Atwater, his employee ran the George

Herbert Walker Bush campaign and came up with the Willie Horton ad and then you know and now Donald Trump

and Paul Manafort running the Donald Trump's campaign and suddenly Donald Trump is talking just like Richard Nixon and this this we have

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