Make America Hate Again.....
Dec. 9th, 2017 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaSitting doing a slow burn this morning.
Mississippi is opening a civil rights museum. Trump is going and as a result, several icons of the civil rights movement, Rep. John Lewis among them, are opting to not be there. The irony of this is not lost on me. John Lewis put his life on the line throughout the 50s and 60s & has never walked away from the battle for equality. If anyone should be at the opening of this civil rights museum, it is him. Instead, the man who would be Führer will be there instead, a man fined for refusing to rent housing to people of color, a man who refused to denounce David Duke when he endorsed him, a man who after neo-Nazis invaded Charlottesville this past year, and murdered a woman protesting their presence by running her over, said there were “fine people on both sides”. Armed neo-Nazis marched back and forth infront of a Charlottesville synagogue during Saturday morning services during that protest. Congregants were advised to leave via the back door for their own safety that morning. Good people on both sides you say, Mr. President?
The civil rights museum memorializes the 1955 murder of 14 y/o Emmet Till, a teen, a mere child, lynched after being beaten beyond recognition for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Instead of an icon of the civil rights movement being in attendance, a man who publicly called for the death penalty for 5 innocent young black men, the Central Park 5, less than thirty years ago, will be. Will you ever stop fanning the fires of hate and division, Donnie? How about starting with an apology to our last president for questioning his citizenship, when you damn well knew that was an open faced lie?
My husband contends Trump should be at the museum opening, not as a speaker, but as an exhibit, a glaring example of the contemporary face of American racism.
I am ashamed that this man is my president. I am horrified he has a base in this day and age to preach his hate to, nuanced enough the talking white heads at Fox News are able to talk past it and ignore it. Those of us who recognize lack of privilege, because we’re not white, not Christian, not heterosexual, not male, not native English speakers, or not born to significant wealth, stand in opposition to Mr. Trump and have to wonder when the bulk of his populist supporters will wake up & recognize exactly who Mr Trump is working for. To non-college educated white working class in this country, NEWSFLASH - it’s not you.
Mississippi is opening a civil rights museum. Trump is going and as a result, several icons of the civil rights movement, Rep. John Lewis among them, are opting to not be there. The irony of this is not lost on me. John Lewis put his life on the line throughout the 50s and 60s & has never walked away from the battle for equality. If anyone should be at the opening of this civil rights museum, it is him. Instead, the man who would be Führer will be there instead, a man fined for refusing to rent housing to people of color, a man who refused to denounce David Duke when he endorsed him, a man who after neo-Nazis invaded Charlottesville this past year, and murdered a woman protesting their presence by running her over, said there were “fine people on both sides”. Armed neo-Nazis marched back and forth infront of a Charlottesville synagogue during Saturday morning services during that protest. Congregants were advised to leave via the back door for their own safety that morning. Good people on both sides you say, Mr. President?
The civil rights museum memorializes the 1955 murder of 14 y/o Emmet Till, a teen, a mere child, lynched after being beaten beyond recognition for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Instead of an icon of the civil rights movement being in attendance, a man who publicly called for the death penalty for 5 innocent young black men, the Central Park 5, less than thirty years ago, will be. Will you ever stop fanning the fires of hate and division, Donnie? How about starting with an apology to our last president for questioning his citizenship, when you damn well knew that was an open faced lie?
My husband contends Trump should be at the museum opening, not as a speaker, but as an exhibit, a glaring example of the contemporary face of American racism.
I am ashamed that this man is my president. I am horrified he has a base in this day and age to preach his hate to, nuanced enough the talking white heads at Fox News are able to talk past it and ignore it. Those of us who recognize lack of privilege, because we’re not white, not Christian, not heterosexual, not male, not native English speakers, or not born to significant wealth, stand in opposition to Mr. Trump and have to wonder when the bulk of his populist supporters will wake up & recognize exactly who Mr Trump is working for. To non-college educated white working class in this country, NEWSFLASH - it’s not you.
