Donald Trump And America's White Crime Epidemic
I Blame The Culture
Donald Trump has now had three indictments and two impeachments, and it’s time Americans ask the broader question about the role white culture plays in his (alleged) crimes.
We all know, of course, that most of the people who commit crime in America are white. The federal Bureau of Prisons shows us that an overwhelming majority of people in federal prison for crime (57%) are white. According to the FBI, more than two-thirds (69%) of arrests in the United States in 2022 (4.7 million people) were white.
It has to be the culture. Something in the home lives of white people that produce corrupt people like Donald Trump. After all, most of the divorces in America occur in white homes, and it was white politicians who set up the system of laws and regulations that allow divorces to occur.
Maybe it was the music. White artists across multiple music genres are frequently urging listeners to commit crimes or break societal norms. It is it too much to ask why white-led culture is contributing in such a negative way to America’s life?
It could truly be the music.
Zooming in on the American presidency, 100% of impeachments of American presidents have been of white presidents. And of the scandals that led to presidential resignations, 100% of those have been white as well. Even when it comes to recordings of American presidents making antisemitic or racist remarks, that is an area of whites-only privilege.
Perhaps this culture of crime and corruption embraced by white Americans comes from an education system where the curriculum is oriented around catering to white culture and white concerns. Call it “critical white theory,” if you will, and the way it has put ideas and notions favoring white ideology at the center of American life.
When you step back and take a wide angle lens look at things, you can see evidence of white people continually helping other white people to commit crimes, defraud the public, and to profit from dishonest schemes that target others.
The problem, as Trump has shown us, is particularly problematic when it comes from white men.
It must be the culture. Their home lives. Their families. There’s something wrong with white America and it is high time that we focus the work of our political, education, and cultural system on correcting this source of divisive and corrosive behavior.
Something has to be done about America’s white crime epidemic that has been allowed to grow and fester for hundreds of years. It’s a public crisis of epic proportions.
Yeah, see how it sounds when you say it that way?
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As a WM, I endorse this analysis. My demographic cohort has been raised by indulgent or absent parents; consumed dangerously high levels of light beer, processed sugar, FOX News, OANN, and Newsmax, and NASCAR; and treated the U.S. Constitution as if it were originally written to protect only them. (Taps earpiece. Wait, it was written only for WMs? Noted!)
We WMs need much more disciplined and demanding parenting and schooling to correct this rot and put WMs on a path to becoming productive citizens. Otherwise they'll grow angrier and more violent in their suburban cul de sacs, relying on their guns, Bibles, and oversized pickup trucks to fight their way out of their dead-end coup-adjacent culture.
"Something has to be done about America’s white crime epidemic that has been allowed to grow and fester for hundreds of years."
This is literally true, not merely a polemical exercise.
White Christian males are disproportionately responsible for both violent and property crimes in the Americas for the past five hundred years, up to the present day (if you consider land theft, electoral fraud, discrimination, arson, vigilantism, terrorism, slavery, rape and genocide to be criminal, that is).
The intertwined cultural frames of White supremacy and toxic masculinity are essentially forms of sociocultural pathology, a social psychological disturbance that manifests as, and is defined by, violent criminality, a violent criminality that is ubiquitous, celebrated, and not uncommonly state-sanctioned.
So there's that.
Also, among the fascists, if you haven't noticed, **abiding by the law is for saps**.
The instruments and accoutrements of the law (badges, courts, writs, prison blocks, treaties, contracts, etc.) are expedients- wielded when useful, ignored when inconvenient.
So there's that, too.
The current nation-state political arrangements throughout the Americas were established by criminals, for criminals, through relentless and ongoing crime:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/crime
"Crime is behavior, either by act or omission, defined by statutory or common law as deserving of punishment or penalty. Although most crimes require the element of intent, certain minor crimes may be committed based on strict liability even if the defendant had no specific mindset with regard to the criminal action. For instance, parking violations are crimes that usually do not require prosecutors to establish intent.
Some crimes are considered mala prohibita (bad because prohibited); these are prohibited by statute but are not inherently evil. Other crimes are considered mala in se (bad in themselves); these are considered inherently evil under general community standards."
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There is no cohort so steeped in criminality, in any rational understanding of the concepts 'crime' and 'criminal', than White Christian males.
So yeah, I blame the culture.