Not too long ago, a black man decided that kneeling when the national anthem was being sung would be his way to protest against the atrocious treatment of blacks. "Get that son of a bitch off the field."
A large group of white men armed to the max, on par with military soldiers in most parts of the world, storm into the capitol building, which makes legislators feel threatened. They were "very good people."
A young white woman calls the cops and reports that an African-American man is threatening her, when all he did was to remind her that the park rules required that dogs be leashed.
A black man is held on the ground by a white police officer, who continues to hold him down even as bystanders shout that the black man is gasping for breath, and the black man dies.
Minneapolis burns as a result. "THUGS" should be shot!
🇺🇸 UN Human Rights Chief condemns George Floyd's killing and urges serious action to stop US police killings of unarmed African Americans: "This is the latest in a long line" – @mbachelet.
— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) May 28, 2020
Read: https://t.co/1uK6yF6fi9#StandUp4HumanRights pic.twitter.com/f9OTMdmdt7
You try to peacefully protest and take a knee, and the president of the United States demonizes you and calls you a son of bitch. Hell, you run out of options and the will to do it the “right way.”
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 29, 2020
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The following is an excerpt from an email exchange that I had in March 2017 with a tRump voter before I completely broke ties with that person:
Over the years, I have never had problems being friends with people of whatever political persuasions, as long as they did not mean ill to me and to people. As one who has never been confined to any political party or ideology, I have had no problems at all mixing freely and making friends with Republicans too.
But, trump is different.
trump's entire political life since Obama's election has been based on hate, racism, bigotry, which over the campaign he amplified and then added to it misogyny and more. I still cannot believe that his mocking of a disabled journalist alone was not considered awful enough for the party to dump his candidacy. That was merely one act of utterly beastly, least human-like, display that he continued to boastfully stage all across the rallies and TV shows.
One after another, the GOP faithful adopted this horrible human being as their standard-bearer. I was hoping against hope that you would step up and denounce trump for the horrible human being, which he made clear to everybody that he was/is. But, you did not--all the way through to the election day.
After the election, I wondered/wonder if you even voted for this horrible human being to become the president of this wonderful country that I have adopted as mine.
With the events that have been unfolding at warped speeds since Jan 20th, with every passing day, I am convinced even more than before that there is no such thing as a good trump voter. People who voted for him voted for a racist who promised racist outcomes.
Trump campaigned on state repression of disfavored minorities. He gives every sign that he plans to deliver that repression. This will mean disadvantage, immiseration, and violence for real people, people whose “inner pain and fear” were not reckoned worthy of many-thousand-word magazine feature stories. If you voted for Trump, you voted for this, regardless of what you believe about the groups in question. That you have black friends or Latino colleagues, that you think yourself to be tolerant and decent, doesn’t change the fact that you voted for racist policy that may affect, change, or harm their lives. And on that score, your frustration at being labeled a racist doesn’t justify or mitigate the moral weight of your political choice.
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That person was one of the 63 million who elected tRump to power. People of "faith" they are are! Guilty beyond any reasonable doubt!
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