Sam, should be ashamed of yourself.

There have been great writers and orators who, through literary devices, laid bare the abject cruelty of American society, while still calling us to hope and unify and better ourselves.

Frederick Douglass writes masterfully, after having experienced horrors that make contemporary society look like a fantasy daydream. He is no stranger to action, to agitation, writing

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

And yet, in contrast to the acrimonious, bigoted, and divisive speech you wrote above, he constantly evokes the empathy of the reader, lifts their ambitions to attain a higher moral standard, proclaims the equality of all.

Man is man, the world over. This fact is affirmed and admitted in any effort to deny it. The sentiments we exhibit, whether love or hate, confidence or fear, respect or contempt, will always imply a like humanity.

(If you have any doubt that this reflects his point of view, I encourage you to read all of https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1869-frederick-douglass-describes-composite-nation/.)

Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream” speech is a dream of equality, of respect for all humans. In part:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Not by the whiteness or blackness of their skin. By the content of their character: by who they are as people, not how bigots can stereotype them in the basis of superficial appearance.

William Lloyd Garrison justly ridiculed the meager proposals of the early gradual-abolition movement, which was considered the prudent, reasonable approach. He advocated immediate and total abolition, writing:

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard.

And what could justify such strident language, the casting off of conventional wisdom of the time? The love of equality of humanity:

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race.

One could go on with many other examples, but this serves to give a flavor of the grand and noble idea that our shared humanity is ever so much more important than our genetic heritage, skin color, religious beliefs, or tribal identity.

How great a contrast we see with your language above:

Whether we talk about his demagoguery or his love for dictators, whether we talk about his lies or his gaslighting, whether we talk about his fragility or his ego, whether we talk about his misogyny or his racism, whether we talk about his bigotry or his victimhood, whether we talk about his blaming or his defaming, whether we talk about his distractions or his rudeness, and whether we talk about his incompetence or his ignorance — it’s all whiteness.

This gathering of repugnant traits is launched squarely at a group of people who cannot, just as you cannot, be any different than they are in that respect. The brush strokes wide, and paints two hundred million.

It’s propaganda. The ugly kind used over and over to disparage a group. If it even needs to be said: these are not the predominant values of the people you unavoidably tarnish. Many humans, of all colors and backgrounds, flawed as we are, share some of these traits. Your picture is a cruel caricature. Do you not mean it? You are a writer. You know the power of words, how they define identity, how they group you whether you wish to be grouped or not.

I do not think you speak for non-whites. I do not think you speak for African-Americans. I think you do speak for Sam, and some people who think like Sam; and I think that Sam had better reflect deeply before reaching so deeply into the tools of propaganda to deliver an ugly divisive message.

Language like this radicalizes your supporters. Language like this radicalizes your enemies. No good comes of this.

You are a talented writer and, at times, a perceptive thinker. If you’re willing to do the work to educate and motivate, you can use your experience and perspective and talents to be a force for positive change. Or you can veer towards hatred.

Choose wisely.