Quakerwidow wrote:
President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, has a message for people who are excusing President Trump's r****m:
"I had fully intended to ignore President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it. I had every intention of walking past Trump’s latest outrages and writing about the self-destructive squabbling of the Democratic p**********l field, which has chosen to shame former vice president Joe Biden for the sin of being an electable, moderate liberal.
But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency.
Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the k**lers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was 'stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.'
God help us.
It is hard to write the words.
This evil — the evil of w***e s*******y, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and k*****g her child.
When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial. It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving r****t tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.
Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to look at resurgent r****m as just one in a series of p**********l offenses or another in a series of Republican errors. R****m is not just another wrong. The Antietam battlefield is not just another plot of ground. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is not just another bridge. The balcony outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is not just another balcony. As U.S. history hallows some causes, it magnifies some crimes.
What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s d******eness is getting worse, not better. He makes r****t comments, appeals to r****t sentiments and inflames r****t passions. The rationalization that he is not, deep down in his heart, really a r****t is meaningless. Trump’s continued offenses mean that a large portion of his political base is energized by r****t tropes and the language of white grievance. And it means — wh**ever their intent — that those who play down, or excuse, or try to walk past these offenses are enablers.
Some political choices are not just stupid or crude.
They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion. Such r****m indicts Trump. Treating r****m as a typical or minor matter indicts us." — Michael Gerson
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President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Mic... (
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The Black Community Destroys Trumps R****m In One Video:
https://youtu.be/IYqCQy7fvFwL*****ts are r****t video:
https://youtu.be/LaXRFwFpK-AWhere is your outrage over the following:
Obama embraced h**e preacher Louis Farrakhan a r****t who called white men of the devil.
Democrats support Planned Parenthood which ends the lives of 900 black babies every day of the year.
Democrats support Planned Parenthood the builds 80% of their a******n clinics in or near minority neighborhoods to target minority women because the founder of Planned Parenthood thought black children were human weeds.
Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar claimes “Jews hypnotize the world” and anyone who supports Isarael must be bought off by the Jews.
Democrats refuse to condemn, and actual embrace, Rev Al Sharpton, who calls Jews, “bloodthirsty Jews”, who marched with the protester whose sign read “the white man is the devil”.
It was Republicans and not Democrats who v**ed in favor of civil rights.
The first black congressmember and House of Representatives was a Republican, and the first black Senator was a black Republican.
It was a Republican President, and not Democrat, that finally abolished the stain of s***ery in our nation.
It was Democrats, former confederate soldiers, who formed the KKK to terrorize freed s***es and any Republicans who helped free them.
It’s Democrats who ignore the plights of inner cities and gang violence like Chicago and Baltimore that disproportionately hurt b***k A******ns. It’s Democrats who ran those cities, who ran those cities into the ground.
It’s Democrats who oppose school choice, even though it’s school choice that helps b***k A******n kids get a better education.
It’s Democrats who claim a monopoly on minority because of their skin color...
...While Republicans advocate for equal justice under the law, for the equal rights of all people, based not on skin color, while Republicans preside over the lowest employment rate for b***k A******ns in the history of our nation, and the highest standard of living for b***k A******ns in our nation.
All the policies that hurt b***k A******ns- a******n, socialism, a giant welfare state, poor public education, the lies if the Black L***s M****r movement, gun control, thought control, the break-up of the nuclear family, neglected inner-cities, race-baiting, and lying are all policies from the Democrats.”
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And then there’s this little classic gem:
https://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-163266-1.html#2939313“The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture is proud to be distributing the greatest amount of free
Meals and Food Stamps ever - 46 million people now receive Food
Stamps.
“The National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the
Interior, instructs us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated
reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on
handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."
This is what Democratic r****m looks like, folks: "The minorities will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves."
This is what s***ery in modern day America looks like! The party of the KKK appears to have been winning this struggle, but b****s and others are waking up and speaking out.
If you claim, as l*****ts commonly do, that it is r****t to require all people to provide ID to v**e, then you are the r****t, period, for assuming minorities, because of their race alone, are incapable of accomplishing normal human tasks.
In the same way, the fact that you criticize Trump for criticizing "people of color" for their political ideas is in itself r****t, because you are implying "people of color" deserve some kind of immunity from criticism of their policies, or perhaps you think they aren't mentally strong enough to defend their policies intellectually, and therefore criticizing their policies is r****t.
Therefore, it is people like you, and the author you quoted, who are making "r****t comments, appeals to r****t sentiments and inflam(ing) r****t passions" and then you l*****ts falsely and disengeniously "project" your r****m on Trump.
Shame on you and you l*****t r****ts! Your own words and actions expose and condemn you!