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July 6, 2021 (American Thinker) – Tom Hanks has a long track record of social justice activism. He has a long history of donating to Democrat candidates and causes. One might logically believe he would be a hero to self-proclaimed progressives everywhere. One, apparently, would be wrong.
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio recently published a piece titled “Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It’s Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist,” by 55-year-old Eric Deggans, a Black man. Deggans opined:
The toughest thing for some white Americans … is to admit how they were personally and specifically connected to the elevation of white culture over other cultures. Baby boomer filmmakers have made fortunes amplifying ideas of white American exceptionalism and heroism[.] … [Hanks] has built his career on stories about American white men ‘doing the right thing[.]’ … It is time for folks like Hanks to be anti-racist.
He then claimed that work that focuses on the achievements of “virtuous white, male Americans” may well “have made it tougher” for tales of white “atrocities” to “find space.”
Deggans went on to note how successful white filmmakers
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