Trump and Racism Revisited
Our coastal leftist democrats and the 90% + anti-Trump
mainstream media has painted Trump as a virulent racist. Drawing on this, Bernie Sanders has called
Trump a racist to partisan crowds, and Joe Biden’s participation announcement
called Trump a racist based on his comment after Charlottesville that there
“were fine people on both sides”, which was taken completely out of context and
implied that Trump was referring to white supremacists as “fine people”. In actual fact, the “fine people” comment
pertained to innocent, non-violent protesters, (who had permits), to removing
General Robert E. Lee’s statue from the Charlottesville park. Trump soundly condemned the torch-carrying
white supremacists and neo Nazis, as well as the black-shirted and masked
antifa thugs with baseball bats that fought with the alt-right group. He expressed sympathy for the peaceful
demonstrators that were there to protest the degradation of a famous American general.
Admittedly, Trump’s rhetoric sometimes gets carried away to
the point that he expresses what a lot of Americans think, but which is
anathema to politically correct leftists, and their MSM accomplices. Talk is cheap, someone once said, and the term
“racist” is so overused by the “woke” leftists, that it has become almost
meaningless. Disagree with the
groupthink left about virtually anything, and immediately be termed a “racist”.
Many feel that Trump should keep his mouth shut and his
thumbs off the tweeter, particularly when it comes to ethnic comments which are
as natural as The Bronx on an Eastern construction site, but not so cool in
this intersectional, “woke” political environment. Inappropriate rhetoric and tweets
notwithstanding, Trump is not at all “racist” when it comes to action, rather
than words, for minorities. Trump has
always stressed the equality of “all Americans”, with no unusual special privileges
for identity groups. This is what puts
him at odds with socialist elitists in the coastal and major urban centers and
the mainstream media that back them, whose “cause celebre” is special
treatment, reparations and glorifying of identity groups. The link refers to action that Trump has
taken concerning minorities, rather than his sometimes provocative rhetoric,
and the equally provocative rantings of the left.
Ray Gruszecki
April 26, 2019
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