Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” was a lie in itself, and an effort by Trump’s campaign to make ignorant Americans believe that Trump cares about his country. He does not.
The Truth is this ‘slogan’ was used by the Ku Klux Klan repeatedly. This white supremacist hate group also used “America First” in its efforts to claim that all non-whites are inferior to pure whites.
From his first months in office it became obvious that Trump was following a family belief: whites are the superior race. His grandfather and father were racists and DJT continues the family tradition.
What is happening today in Minneapolis is unforgivable. But before I condemn both sides, and I will, let’s look at some of the history of the relationship between law enforcement and black America.
Our judicial system is prejudiced against minorities. The statistics of those incarcerated and the crimes which placed them in our prisons reveal a single fact: minorities, and the poor are more severely punished than white, affluent Americans. I won’t bore you with a long list, just one which reveals our nation’s obsession with punishing criminals and not rehabilitating them. America has four percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of those in our jails and prisons. Racism and bigotry are the prime reason America has never been a ‘great nation.’
Most black men and women who are incarcerated are guilty of drug possession and other crimes which are nonviolent, and were sentenced far more severely than whites.
Now for current news and more recent acts of inhumanity and disregard for human life.
George Floyd was murdered earlier this week in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The perpetrator was a 44 year old white police officer by the name of Derek Chauvin. He was fired and has now been indicted for the unlawful death of a man who was accused of using counterfeit money to purchase cigarettes at a local shop.
The indictment accuses Chauvin of detaining Mr. Floyd by ‘kneeling on his neck until depravation of oxygen ended his life.’
When the authorities refused to take immediate action against Chauvin and the other officers involved, protests began and those protests became violent. The most sensational event was arson committed against a police station.
Early on Friday, Trump tweeted his support for law enforcement, and included a phrase which encouraged violence. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Like his slogans, “make America great again,” and “America first,” this phrase was not his own. The phrase was used both by Miami’s police chief, Walter Headley, in 1967, and by presidential candidate and segregationist George Wallace the following year. Both men would be labeled as “white supremacists today.”
If you believe that I am supporting the protesters who became violent, I am not. One of the men I continue to admire most in my lifetime is Martin Luther King Jr. His entire life was focused on civil rights, and his actions were non-violent. Violence is the result of unrestrained emotions, and emotions are mankind’s greatest weakness. All violent action, from wars to a simple fist fight, have never solved the source of a problem.
All prejudices are based on ignorance. Man’s inability and unwillingness to understand the suffering of other men all too often result in bigotry based on the failure of men to use their intelligence and ignore unfounded emotions.
That said, it is no surprise that Trump is a white nationalist. He is a man of low intelligence and a poor education. After his father allegedly paid for his diploma from Wharton, he joined him in his real estate business. Fred Trump was a racist who was well-known for his refusal to allow black men and women to reside in his New York apartment buildings.
I am not Trump and this is not a conspiracy theory. Trump’s history is a sad story of failure, incompetence, racism, and sexual deviance. This creature is not a man, he is a product of a vile and hate-filled family.
I am not forgiving Trump for his crimes against humanity; I believe that we are all born with a conscience and free thought. However, we are the culmination of our environment and what we learned as we matured. The truth is that Trump chose to become his father and grandfather, and they were not Americans by definition.
The most important question is “why has his party allowed a man who denies the legitimacy of the Law of the Land, the Constitution to remain in office?” The answer is twofold: greed and power.
On November 3rd we can rid our nation’s capital of dozens of traitors who have abandoned the American people. The right-wing has become the enemy of the American people.
Please vote: it’s your country, not theirs.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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