WickedsDesire
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Trump lit the torches of white supremacy in Charlottesville. We must extinguish them.
President Trump lit every one of those torches in Charlottesville.
Yes, the white supremacists have always been with us. A parade of racist bigots is no surprise to anyone familiar with our history, especially those who have been the target of hatred and violence for centuries.
But when the mob of white men marched in Charlottesville carrying flaming torches Friday night shouting “Heil Trump” as the curtain-raiser for a day of violent clashes with counterprotesters that left three people dead, they showed the world that America is once again playing with fire.
And Trump was the one with the match.
The symbolism was not subtle. Torches, witch hunts, flaming crosses — they all stretch back to our country’s founding. All those white-power bros knew exactly the kind of fear they were trying to evoke, even if their tiki torches came from Home Depot’s end-of-the-season patio sale.
The Nazi and Confederate flags were equally chilling to the millions of Americans who lost relatives in the Holocaust or in the fight against Hitler, or those with vivid memories of relentless racial oppression, including lynchings, church bombings and assassinations at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist terrorists.
Now we’re live-streaming that very same hatred while Trump looks the other way. It was 90 years ago that Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father, was arrested for failing to disperse at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens that sounded a lot like the scene at Charlottesville.
Except today, there are no hoods.
Donald Trump gave everyone permission to take those hoods off with his winks, nods and refusal to take a moral stand on racial hatred and intimidation during his campaign and during the first six months of his presidency. He’d already spent years questioning the birthplace and legitimacy of President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black commander in chief. And the haters loved him for it.
On Saturday, the president stayed silent at his New Jersey golf club for hours, even as former KKK grand wizard David Duke declared Charlottesville a “turning point” for a movement that aims to “fulfill the promises of Donald Trump.”
First, he offered a vague tweet condemning hatred without any explicit reference to the hundreds of men, some wearing red Make America Great Again hats, who chanted “White lives matter,” “You will not replace us” and “Jews will not replace us.”
It wasn’t until a 20-year-old from Ohio plowed his car into a crowd of peaceful counterdemonstrators, injuring 19 and killing one woman, that Trump addressed the terrorist attack on his own soil.
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides,” he said.
Wrong.
“There is only one side,” former vice president Joe Biden succinctly replied on Twitter.
Trump is so afraid of offending his Tiki Tribe that he didn’t even own his flaccid statement with “I.”
On Sunday morning, his daughter Ivanka Trump finally called out the cancer that is at the heart of this domestic terrorism.
“There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis,” she tweeted. ( I actually like that one)
Hate divide fear are powerful weapons, rallying points, motivators I know I joke about whipping often, birching bull whipping - but that scene is seared into my memory. Fuking animals.
Strange it took so long for many, by no means all, to condemn this occurrence until if fully unfolded - and the state of emergency was declared far too late and the Police presence was lacking - given the nature of the demonstration.
Its a blessing it was not worse but I only saw the white supremacists Trumps SS carrying assault rifles etc
UK: yes we have racism and hatred too but not like that so we are not perfect, far from it. Plus the troubles which still rumble on I suppose
I watched the orange monster campaign on hatred and divide - and, his current term I see not one iota of change, infact he has gotten worse much to the delight of many of his mob rallies whooping away :(
< Message edited by WickedsDesire -- 8/13/2017 9:22:26 AM >
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