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Make America White Again...!

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column

      You know, when you have a complete dunce in the White House who ostensibly does not know Liberia from Nigeria or Costa Rica from El Salvador, you will get inane statements from the Dunce-in-Chief about the need to get Haitians out of the country and the sweet comforting dreams he has of Norwegians and Swedes flooding the country.

       But to totally denigrate the entire continent of Africa by calling those countries, shithole countries is, in effect, calling you and your African ancestors people of no value or worth.
 


Lafe Tolliver, Esq

      Let's face it. Trump has little respect or regard for people of color including those nefarious Mexicans who are all criminals and rapists. Trump sorely detests Haitians saying that they all have AIDS and he wants them all removed.

      Trump saved his worst racist remarks for Africans. We all know that nothing good can come from a shithole, so, in Trump's warped thinking, he loathes anything African or anyone from Africa...including one of his favorite nemesis...President Obama...whose ancestry is from the African country of Kenya.

     Make no mistake about it. Trump gets great glee and satisfaction from using racial "dog whistles" or slurs against people of color and at the same time, feigning his innocence of being a racist.

       A classical racist is a person who utters such racial bile and invectives and then, when cornered, will piously deny any racist tendencies. But Trump's long history of pummeling people of color is well documented and his constant spewing of lies and half truths is one for the history books.

      Trump is in deep denial of his racial hatred and he thinks that by having Uncle Ben Carson in his cabinet and his former stormy relationship with Omarosa Manigault, that he can be spared of being labeled a racist.

Not so. Trump finds comfort in labeling Neo Nazis as "fine" or good people. He has no trouble running in the dog pack of the David Dukes of the world and he stills believes that Obama was born in Kenya.

      All of his reprehensible conduct, he believes, finds favor with his "base" and to his base his loves to throw red meat to keep them howling at the moon and keep them believing that he has their best interest at heart. 

       What is equally tragic is the lackluster GOP leadership who fawn over Trump and refuse to grow a basic semblance of a spine for fear that Trump might turn his noise machine on them and cause them to lose favor with his base.

The GOP has now been forever morally compromised by their abject refusal or inability to stand up to this racist bully and tell him that what he spouts from his ignorant lips is not indicative of current American thought.

      Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are knowingly enabling Trump to play the role of the racist despot because both politicos see the only utilitarian value of Trump is that Trump will affix his signature to any mess that they place on his desk; and of course Trump will call it a victory.

     You can only hope that more and more Americans who have at least two working brain cells are beginning to see the corrosive effect on both domestic and foreign policy of having such an ignoramus in the White House.

     From all that we can ascertain to date, Trump is an intellectual midget and has no interest in governing from the center but rather favors chaos and culturally dividing people for his own political gain.

     Democracies are hard to birth and are even harder to govern over periods of centuries since such open governments allow for the development of buffoons like Trump who seemingly takes pleasure in lambasting his real or perceived enemies and creating ticky tacky names of belittlement for those who cross him.

      To say that he is not presidential is elementary. To say that America has temporarily lost its standing in the estimation of the world as being a first class country is beyond debate.

     Trump's infantile rants about shithole countries speaks volumes on his lack of any ability to elevate any discourse about immigration polices to a standard that both political parties can engage in without each side using flame throwers against the other.

     For a president who has a proven predilection to lie and even lie when the truth would work or serve his purpose, American politics and debate is losing its ability to engage in the search for facts and truth because Trump would rather court angst than cooperation.

    Of course Trump, ignorant as he is, obviously failed to read the nature or the character of the people that the Statute of Liberty has etched on its base and  that "those" so-called shithole peoples came from countries that were deemed either poor or of little redeeming value including Eastern Europeans, Italians, Jews and Irish.

     Those tired and huddled masses came to America and made America what it is today but still no credit is accorded to the involuntary African Diaspora that brought millions of black people in chains to America; and whose free labor and creativity started the needed economic mass that created the engine of capitalism. (Note: the book, The Half Has Never Been Told....Slavery and the rise of American Capitalism...is an excellent read for those doubt that it was American-styled slavery that was the critical mass that propelled America to its world-class status).

     Quite naturally Trump did not call those above nationalities on the carpet because their skin color is more akin to his and not to those Haitians or Africans that he so thoroughly denigrates.

     During this hopefully brief tenure of Trump being president, America will again stand at the crossroads of determining if they will acquiesce to the racial blather of Trump & Company or remove this miscreant from the White House.

    W.E. DuBois said long, long ago that the problem of 20th century America will be the color line....we can now extend that race problem to the 21st century because we now have in the Oval Office a throw back who is more mentally in synch with a George Wallace than a John Kennedy or a Jimmy Carter.

    We have a Neanderthal who uses race baiting tactics to advance his own agenda and the worse is yet to come.

Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com

   
   


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Revised: 08/16/18 14:12:12 -0700.


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