A majority of the homicide victims in this country are white. White folk commit a majority of gang-related murders too. You’re also more likely to kill children, the elderly, significant others, family members, and even yourselves. White folk lead the way in forcible rape. And white folk are far more likely to target the vulnerable too. White folk consistently lead all other groups in aggravated assault, larceny, illegal weapons possession, arson, and vandalism. According to FBI statistics, black folk committed 36 percent of violent crime in 2015, while white folk committed 42 percent of violent crimes in the same year. And, beloved, it might surprise you that white folk commit the most violent crimes too. “White folk commit the bulk of the crimes in our nation. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America In the end, Trump is a nationalist, and Kaepernick is a patriot. That is dangerous, as glimpsed in Trump’s amplification of racist and xenophobic sentiments. It is the nationalists who wrap themselves in a flag and loudly proclaim themselves as patriots. The nationalist is the person who spurns such correction and would rather take refuge in bigotry than fight it. The patriot is the person who, spotting the need for change, says so clearly and loudly, without hate or rancor. If the nation strays, then it must be corrected.
Patriotism is the belief in the best values of one’s country, and the pursuit of the best means to realize those values. Patriotism is a bigger, more uplifting virtue. Nationalism is the belief that no matter what one’s country does-whether racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or the like-it must be supported and accepted entirely.
Nationalism is a harmful belief that can lead a country down a dangerous spiral of arrogance, or off a precipice of political narcissism. It is summarized in the saying, “My country right or wrong.” Lump it or leave it. “Nationalism is the uncritical celebration of one’s nation regardless of its moral or political virtue.
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