Have you not read the many linked stores of racist acts of people calling the police on black people at parks and business establishments, if you, its only because you did not give acknowledgment to those stores.
Multiple people have posted links to the use of "dog whistle trigger words", to the variation of voter suppression acts. Certainly the incessant "belligerence" out of Trumps mouth every time he opens it.
Black people have always fought to promote Democracy to Respect the Principles of Human Dignity and Respect of Person as Individual. None of which would have been necessary if so many among white society, predominantly in the Right Wing Conservative sectors did not harbor racist ideology, overt racist segregationist agenda and delusions of granduer.
As far back as LBJ.
Who said:
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Many of us have not forgot about Goldwater' and George Wallace of the 1960's and certainly have not forgot about Nixon who embraced that ideology, and Ronald Reagan who promoted it, and left a legacy of Right Wing Media, DE-Funded Community Colleges and DE-Funded State Universities, and dumping the mentally ill in the streets.
One can go any place in the country and find rural enclaves of white people, who have issues with immigrants, legal as well as tourist, and cycles of white flight in their running away from an inter grated society.
History is real... and the lives damaged and those killed by rabid minded white people, who did so just because of the color of a persons skin.
You can't wipe that away with a pretense that racism is not deeply embedded in the Right Wing Confederacy Ideals of a great many white people.
Talking about "their way of life"... which was built up on "white supremacist ideology" and white nationalist agenda.
When Obama was in office, the word out of "white people's mouth was President don't create jobs"... suddenly a white man is in office, and white people want to claim that "this white man as president creates Jobs".
No one has forgot about the Tea Party... and certainly no one has forgotten about the mass of white people who fight against Universal Health Care and Fight Against Minimum Wage Increase... when every economic indicator speaks about the income disparity.
The bulk of white people, talking about their way of life... actually can't stand the other white people in their areas, they only car that their visual image if of white skin. They see no problem with young white kids with pink and green green hair, but they have a problem with black people who wear dreadlocks... That'a the type of race based absurdity that they blind themselves to. They talk about kids with unwed mothers, but won't look across the rural enclaves where white women are left with raising baby, and some running away, to avoid the cycle of wife batterings, and we see incessant stores of white people, killing the husband or the wife, and among that madness killing the entire family.
We see an incessant string of young white males shooting up schools and killing class mates, all because they don't ave some fiction of pop
Society has a lot to loose if they pretend this stuff is not real. Black people are not blind to it, as its been seen for 100's of years, including white people sitting on Juries and letting known criminal and known murderer's walk and then treating them like the town hero.
We see the same racism that some of these people seen their racist groomed kids off to college, and they take that stupidity and vile onto college campuses.
Many of the right wing white people are hung up on the "fictional stock ticker", which does not and has not indicated economic health in over 50 yrs, its all about "the frenzy of the trade" and then they borrow against the fiction, and within 3-4 yrs.. they crash one company, sell off it parts, lay off a mass of people, and continue to repeat the cycle.
The Republican Sentate has weaved a story of bias and bigotry and pure evil making denials of seeing and addressing the real truths in society.
An you have the audacity to say.. "There was nothing to lose ".
Guess you have not paid attention to the damages to international diplomacy, the damages to our allied relationships, and the attacks upon Global systems such as the U.N. and N.A.T.O.
Many white people rush to the voting booth, voting for who promotes the most "attack ads", and "who promotes the most covert forms of bias and bigotry" and "who uses the trigger words"... and the name they can associate with it.