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
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