{"id":347306,"date":"2018-02-08T08:29:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumpian-white-supremacy-has-it-all-wrong\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T08:29:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:29:29","slug":"trumpian-white-supremacy-has-it-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumpian-white-supremacy-has-it-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpian White Supremacy Has it All Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99036\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99036\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-15-at-4.59.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"345\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by davitydave | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m a white American, but like a majority of us, that\u2019s only small part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>In a country where the federal government is currently in the hands of so-called \u201cnativists\u201d like Trump and his white mostly male Republican Party backers only celebrate white roots, I like many of us have various genetic strands that include a little of what might best be called \u201cdiversity.\u201d There is a touch of Native American on my mother\u2019s side \u2014 hardly enough to qualify for inclusion in the Algonquin Nation, but enough to remind me and my siblings that our ancestors include both conquerers and the conquered.<\/p>\n<p>Then too, while there is a direct line on both my mother\u2019s side and my father\u2019s side tracing back to the same Warren family that arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, there are also immigrants who came from Scotland (the Stewart Clan) and Ireland on my mother\u2019s side, and from Germany (Kerpol) and England (the Plymptons and Lincolns) on my father\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>For me, one of the most interesting roots is my great great grandfather, a Lindorff who left Sweden for Germany, marrying a German woman. According to family lore, I\u2019d always heard while growing up, this Scandinavian immigrant had been chased out or fled from Sweden because he was a thief or something, though I later learned it was more likely that he was hounded out as a \u201cred\u201d or socialist undesirable.<\/p>\n<p>That seems to be correct because his daughter \u2014 my great grandmother \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/07\/trumpian-white-supremacy-has-it-all-wrong\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by davitydave | CC BY 2.0 I\u2019m a white American, but like a majority of us, that\u2019s only small part of the story. In a country where the federal government is currently in the hands of so-called \u201cnativists\u201d like Trump and his white mostly male Republican Party backers only celebrate white roots, I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}