When white thugs with bullet-proof vests shoot up a #BlackLivesMatter group in Minneapolis and kill five of them, who will tell them they should fear people from overseas.
Earlier I posted on Facebook an article from Washington Post which said To Be Black Is To Never, Ever Feel Safe and that may look like bleeding heart liberal posing but I shared it from a black friend's page. If I'm posing then I'm part of a chain and I'm glad to be a part when there's not a whole not more old duffers can do.
(Ed: what of Donald Trump?)
That he is white is no source of pride to me, I'm ashamed he elicits pride in anyone although it's not likely to last much longer, at least hopefully not.
Megyn Kelly has actually been appearing as something more than a vapor head lately in taking Carson to task about fascist statements regarding Muslim reaction to 9/11 but unknown if she has done the same with Trump. Other conservatives have openly called Trump's position fascist and it's a fair position to take based on logic from the meaning of fascism. Some politicians do it to try to gain some political advantage but others are not trying to promote themselves.
While the hatred of Muslims is evil in its own right, Donald Trump has said specifically he thinks black people should be 'roughed-up more' and that goes specifically to the terrorism in Minneapolis. How much is the hateful rhetoric from Donald Trump engendering and enabling such behavior.
Steven W Thrasher published an article in The Guardian which said, The men who shot at the Minneapolis protesters want to scare all black people.
That much strikes me as obvious but it doesn't go far enough as we see a concerted effort to terrify black people and the shootings in Minneapolis were one more example of it. The net effect of that is to terrify us all.
Earlier I posted on Facebook an article from Washington Post which said To Be Black Is To Never, Ever Feel Safe and that may look like bleeding heart liberal posing but I shared it from a black friend's page. If I'm posing then I'm part of a chain and I'm glad to be a part when there's not a whole not more old duffers can do.
(Ed: what of Donald Trump?)
That he is white is no source of pride to me, I'm ashamed he elicits pride in anyone although it's not likely to last much longer, at least hopefully not.
Megyn Kelly has actually been appearing as something more than a vapor head lately in taking Carson to task about fascist statements regarding Muslim reaction to 9/11 but unknown if she has done the same with Trump. Other conservatives have openly called Trump's position fascist and it's a fair position to take based on logic from the meaning of fascism. Some politicians do it to try to gain some political advantage but others are not trying to promote themselves.
While the hatred of Muslims is evil in its own right, Donald Trump has said specifically he thinks black people should be 'roughed-up more' and that goes specifically to the terrorism in Minneapolis. How much is the hateful rhetoric from Donald Trump engendering and enabling such behavior.
Steven W Thrasher published an article in The Guardian which said, The men who shot at the Minneapolis protesters want to scare all black people.
That much strikes me as obvious but it doesn't go far enough as we see a concerted effort to terrify black people and the shootings in Minneapolis were one more example of it. The net effect of that is to terrify us all.
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