“[Ohio Businessman Shaun] Bickley, who owns two marinas and a shoreline construction company, gets frustrated by the suggestion that White men such as him were born more powerful, or with advantages: ‘There’s 8 billion of us on the planet. There’s only 780 million White people. . . . So I’m personally really tired of hearing that I’m a majority, that I’m a superpower White privilege kid,’ Bickley said ‘My mom and dad had nothing. . . . I have been working my whole life.'”
“Even as Bickley’s businesses have prospered, he still considers himself blue-collar. He recently added an image of Trump’s profile to the window of the back seat of his white SUV, so that it looks like he is chauffeuring the president around town.”
“Slavery was terrible, [Ohio veteran and high school dropout Jeff] Karr said, ‘but that was then and this is now, and we can’t go in a negative direction.'”
“‘We’ll grab my AR and head for Washington and join the police force if they think they’re going to riot and destroy Washington — not under my watch. I will die shoulder-to-shoulder with the cops,’ said Karr, the veteran who has three grown sons. ‘There ain’t no way I am going to accept lawlessness in this country.'”