Thoughts and prayers don’t seem to be working so well (yet I'm sure your FB feed is filled with them).
The time to play nice with gun violence is over. Triggered by Trump, it ended in El Paso, Texas last night.
Racism is fully out of control in this country. Terrorism is the ugly mask of racism. There is the plotting, extensive planning, calculation and strategy, driving hundreds of miles to reach targets, aiming a steering wheel at a crowd of innocent people, purchases of weapons from body armor to ear plugs, carefully crafted manifestos. It is all premeditated. And the most dangerous feature considering the current content, culture and behavior of Fox News and other white supremacist media, is it arises from organized propaganda. Online communities like 8Chan cheer on terrorists as heroes and martyrs.
Our racist, fake President continues to promote attacks on minorities while the rest of the complicit #TrumpTerrorists in the Republican party refuse interviews: Governor Abbott of TX, WH spokespeople, cowards all. Their calculation is that they must mute political realities and smother protest movements in order to execute their campaign strategy in partnership with NRA, Russian oligarchs and #MoscowMitch. Spread hate, disown hate and cheat.
Yet the pattern of hate seeded by Trump is impossible to ignore now.
Charleston, SC
Muslim ban
Victoria, Texas mosque burning
Charlottesville
Pittsburgh
Greenville, NC
El Paso, Texas
Trump didn't invent the white supremacist movement, but he is currently the spokesman. So he owns it. And they own it. This fact Trump followers refuse to acknowledge. Call him a racist? They push back. Call white supremacists terrorists? They concern troll over mental illness. They switch the subject. They cry about both sides fighting.
Trump is the mouthpiece for white supremacist hate, the loud, shrill, maniac voice behind the atrocious terrorist acts that follow. He staged a rally in El Paso, attacking immigrants, calling for a border wall and dismissing the inhumane policy of kids in cages. We must force his apologists to own the violence that followed and will follow.
Trump punctured the political arena by enraging anti-Obama racists, pushing the lie that our last President is a foreign plant, an impostor President, not truly American. He demanded on TV to see Obama's birth certificate. His racism against African Americans was repeated, reinforced and amplified throughout the country, hitting every rural pocket, no matter how remote. My rep in rural Western North Carolina vowed to send Obama back to Kenya in 2012.
On the campaign trail for the 2016 illegitimate election, Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and murderers. He fear-mongered, describing a migrant caravan of Hispanic refugees crossing the border as a criminal invasion in order to curry base votes and blunt the momentum of the Blue Wave of 2018. He insisted that they must be stopped and laughed when a Florida audience proposed gun violence. Then he condoned it. And Florida election systems were breached by enemy Russia in 2016. The current Senator and then-Governor knew about it and downplayed it. What about 2018?
Trump’s 2020 campaign kicked off in Greenville, North Carolina with a racist chant calling four congresswomen, all women of color to go back to their country.
Terrorist President Trump is the grand wizard of homegrown terrorism. The #MAGABomber in Florida and #TrumpTerrorist in El Paso have been cultivated and triggered by Trump. They're literally Trump-grown terrorists.
We DEMAND election security.
We DEMAND a ban on NRA contributions to political candidates.
We DEMAND gun safety laws.
We DEMAND a stop to #TrumpTerrorists
We stand with Texas.
And where are those fucking tax returns?