Here We Go Again!

Here We Go Again!

Here we go again!  A white cop shot a fleeing black drunk, so, LET’S BURN ATLANTA!  Sherman already did that once, but let’s do it again.  Maybe we can re-film parts of “Gone with the Wind” with scenes that will satisfy the “content Nazis”.  Turn out the pickup trucks, so that we can haul away the big flat screen TV’s and other symbols of our “peaceful protests” against the nasty RACIST! police. And - DEFUND THE POLICE, so that they don’t interfere with our “peaceful” destruction of Atlanta.

I wax satirical, and with gallows humor, because of my deep sadness and sorrow for my country, that great American republic that is being destroyed by anti-American anarchists, modern Bolsheviks and other leftists, while the elected democrat mayors and governors of our cities and states tacitly approve by surrendering to the mob.

What started as legal first amendment demonstrations after George Floyd’s terrible death in Minneapolis, to raise awareness of police abuse, has now become a full fledged cultural revolution, attacking our history, our freedom of speech and the press, our entertainment, our sports and in effect, all aspects of what represents a common, shared American heritage.  Nothing is spared, not even children’s cartoons, or iconic old movies, like “Gone with the Wind”.  Where are we heading?  It surely feels like we’re heading toward the totalitarianism of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, or Mao’s China, where the same freedoms were abrogated.

Unfortunately, this is the price we pay for electing altruistic sounding, “do-nothing” democrats to our local governments.  Rather than stopping what amounts to an insurrection and secession of a part of Seattle from the city, state and federal government, Jennie Durkan, the democrat mayor of Seattle’s response to the anarchy in her streets was “well, maybe we’ll have a summer of love”.  Jay Inslee, the democrat governor of Washington State claimed to have no knowledge of the secession.  With local officials like these, President Trump could invoke the National Defense Authorization Act of 2007, but he is obviously proceeding cautiously in view of the divisive and polarized nature of the country.

The ultimate answer to this cultural destruction of our American way of life lies in our elections.  If we continue to be led down the garden path by the siren song of the “liberal”, “progressive”, “socialist”, democrats, the dismantling and destruction of our cities will continue.  I lived in the New York area, and I’m old enough to remember the dire straits that the city had gotten into in the mid 1990’s.  Rudy Giuliani, a republican, was elected mayor in 1994.  Rudy cleaned up the city, imposed law and order, fiscal responsibility, brought in businesses, and made the city livable again.  Even now, republican run cities like San Diego, Jacksonville and Fort Worth fare a lot better than many of the “sanctuary city” cesspools run by democrats.

Ray Gruszecki

June 14, 2020

Understanding and Destroying Our History

Understanding and Destroying Our History

Social justice “peaceful” protesters defaced the “Glory” monument to the all-black 54^th Massachusetts Regiment in Boston Common.  They also beheaded a statue of Columbus in the North End of Boston.  These historical American monuments apparently symbolized some hidden affront to race relations unbeknownst to most of the rest of us.

I went to university in Boston a long time ago, and these monuments are in places near where I worked while I was going to college.  Consequently, they are of more than of passing historical significance to me.  Obviously the racially motivated idiots that defaced the monument, didn’t know that the 54^th Massachusetts, espoused “black lives matter” during the Civil War, in the 1860’s, long before the 20^th or 21^st century civil rights movements.

Being originally from Western Massachusetts, I understand the Yankee, and the abolitionist points of view on the Civil War.  Having lived in Texas for nearly 40 years, I also understand the Southern point of view in that war.  Not about slavery.  The whole country agrees that slavery was wrong.  But there were many southern patriots defending their homeland in that war, and I cannot deny these men their bravery.  I know that it is wrong to deface and tear down any statues or monuments that signify a part of our history, North or South.

The travesty of the stain of slavery on our heritage is that it was not eradicated from our nation when the country was formed, but in retrospect, if our founders did not compromise on the issue of slavery, we would have originally been two countries, rather than one. 

Now you might say that “I don’t have a dog in this fight”.  My ancestors, at the time of the U.S. Civil War were in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Central Europe, (really Poland, but there was no Poland then). Try telling a Pole that. 

My Polish ancestors were busy fighting Russians from the East, Germans from the West, and Austrians and Hungarians from the South.  Sometimes also Scandinavians from the North.  They weren’t involved in our American wars or politics, except for chaps like Pulaski and Kosciusko, who fought with Washington against the British in our Revolutionary War, but not during the Civil War.

My mother was born in Poland, and emigrated to Chicago at age 17.  She became an American citizen as quickly as she could.  She was a Franklin Roosevelt democrat, and that was my original exposure to political thought.  My outlook changed, maybe from exposure to those monuments in Boston during my college years.

My mother did not have any of our American prejudices, but she did have some mild Polish, Central European ones.  Rosjanie, Niemcy, Żydzi, Cyganie, or Russians, Germans, Jews Gypsies.  These were not hateful prejudices, but they made her narratives of life in Poland quite colorful at times.

We all have personalities, with likes and dislikes, formed by our backgrounds and experiences in life.  Our personalities are what make us human.  But in our “melting pot” American society, 99.9% of us accept equality of all of our 325 million people under the law, and accept the rights of all Americans as given, no matter what their skin color or ethnic background.  There are pockets of bigotry among us, but these are not endemic or systemic to our overall society, and this bigotry is dying out with education and time.

Unfortunately, we have flare-ups of racial violence, such as George Floyd’s senseless killing in Minneapolis, which are magnified all out of proportion by left wing groups, such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter and anarchists, and exacerbated by left wing politicians and their media allies, espousing divisive “identity politics”.  If the atrocity is “white on black’, the country goes into a furor, as evidenced by the rioting and insurrection in our streets, fanned by all sorts of reverse totalitarian actions against our history and common heritage.

When the atrocity cuts the other way, the equally senseless killing of five white cops in Dallas in 2016 by a deranged black shooter, the event is given short shrift by the hypocritical left-wing democrats and their mainstream media accomplices.  The New York Times headline at the time said “Five Dallas Officers Were Killed as Payback”.  Can we get any mor hypocritical?

Ray Gruszecki

June 14, 2020

Left Wing Bias in Our Online Searches

Left Wing Bias in Our Online Searches

Typically, by default, most of us use Google Chrome as our web page, the Google search engine for our online searches, and Wikipedia for our topic lookup.  This ensures that we consistently are guided to the left side on issues, because the algorithms embedded in all of the above are designed to do exactly that – guide us consistently to a left view of things.

Just for grins, I looked up “Black Lives Matter” using both “Info Galactic” and “Wikipedia”.  The differences are obvious, and illustrate my point.  This happens every time we use the default tools listed above.

This is from Info Galactic, a non-biased topic lookup option.

“Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized left-wing American activist movement that campaigns against violence toward black people and seeks to increase blacks' social and political power. It was founded in 2013 by three black lesbians: the daughter of illegal immigrants and legalization proponent Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and Alicia Garza. Under the BLM banner, protests and propaganda are organized against police killings of black people, and against racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the justice system.

Black Lives Matter traces its roots back to the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power movement, and the international struggle against Apartheid, but began in its present form with the 2013 hashtag #BlackLivesMatter after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in his self-defense case that involved the death of his attacker, African-American Trayvon Martin.

The movement is a decentralized network with no formal hierarchy, but influential opinion leaders  BLM considers itself an inclusive movement within the black community, welcoming "Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum."

Black Lives Matter has allegedly been funded by George Soros, and has been accused of being a domestic terror organization, but has generally been sympathetically depicted by the mass media and the government under the Obama administration.”

NOTE: - InfoGalactic is intended to have less alleged politically progressive, left-wing, or "politically correct" bias than Wikipedia, and to allow articles or statements that would not be allowed on Wikipedia because of problems with Wikipedia's policies on reliable sources, or due to alleged biases held by Wikipedia editors. Standards on notability are more relaxed, within limits. Articles based on original research may also be allowed if all conflicts and controversies are disclosed.

This is from a conventional Wikipedia search.  The bias is obvious.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international human rights movement, originating from within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests speaking out against police brutality and police killings of black people, and broader issues such as racial profiling, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.

In 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin in February 2012.

Black Lives Matter activists became involved in the 2016 United States presidential election. The originators of the hashtag and call to action, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, expanded their project into a national network of over 30 local chapters between 2014 and 2016.  The overall Black Lives Matter movement, however, is a decentralized network and has no formal hierarchy.”

Ray Gruszecki

June 13,2020

Three Weeks of Protests and Violence

Three Weeks of Protests and Violence

What is happening in our country is absolute madness and insanity.

As a result of the appalling, and high profile killing of a black American citizen by a white policeman, and aided by three other multi-ethnic officers in Minneapolis, the left wing of this country and their media allies, have gone bonkers.  Democrat “administrators”, who have let their urban areas deteriorate into cesspools of disease-ridden “sanctuary cities”, (and states), have let rioters and looters spread sedition and insurrection in these areas, virtually unchecked.

A six-block area on Capitol Hill in Seattle has been seized by revolutionaries, and declared and “autonomous zone”, in effect, a separate country.  This is the definition of sedition and insurrection.  The mayor of Seattle, and the governor of Washington State, who are democrats, refuse to take any action and tacitly condone this occupation of part of Seattle.  The mayor of Seattle characterized the occupation as “a block party” or “love in”.

The Seattle situation is probably the most obvious example of the political revolution taking place.  The anarchist, Antifa and ‘black lives matter” movement is like a totalitarian communistic cancer eating away at our politics, culture and society. Anyone who is familiar with totalitarian, dictatorial regimes can recognize the symptoms.

Denial of freedom of speech and the press is obvious.  Only opinions (and facts) that agree with the leftist revolutionaries are allowed.  Even once respected publications like the New York Times are subject to their immature editors, who are obviously backers of the revolutionary cause.

Obliteration and distortion of history is another symptom.  This takes the form of defacing our national monuments, mutilating and tearing down historical statues, and re-writing those parts of history that don’t conform to the leftist narrative.  Particular targets are statues of confederate figures – those Americans like Robert E. Lee, who could have led the Union forces, and eventually could have been our president, but who chose to fight for his native Virginia.  He obviously chose the wrong cause.  IMHO, that does not make him any less an American hero.  We should leave his and other confederate statues alone, and acknowledge that these men are part of American history!

Another phenomenon that is wrecking our culture is banning items from our popular culture by the “censure Nazi’s”.  Examples are a children’s TV series called “Paws”, about a police dog, the A & E series “Cops”, a real-life live show featuring the police, and even the American icon “Gone with the Wind”.  One has to ask, is nothing safe from this madness?

How do we stop the insanity?  It has been proven over and over, that acquiescing to mob violence only breeds more violence.  This is a lesson that is completely lost on the bulk of the young people on the streets, who think that they are still in a junior college “social justice” seminar rather than in real life.

There are several points that have become apparent after nearly three weeks of protests and rioting.  Many sincere people, both black and white, feel that police in general, treat, particularly black suspects, differently, (and worse), than white suspects.  Forgetting arguments to the contrary, and statistics, demographics and crime rates, this is the perception highlighted by the horrible killing of George Floyd.  The peaceful first amendment protests magnified this issue and the need for police reform to mitigate it. Obviously, this is only positive if the politicians react in kind.

The biggest negatives of the last three weeks are the destructive elements that have perverted the peaceful goal of the protesters and turned the street scenes into violent riots and destruction.  The inability and/or unwillingness of democrat city and state governments to curtail this violence just exacerbated the situation, and led to more violence such as occupying part of the City of Seattle.

There are precedents for stopping violence, sedition and insurrection.  President Trump has verbalized, but not yet acted, other than minor National Guard action to protect government buildings in D.C.  Trump could make more extensive use of the National Guard, and even military troops, as Lyndon Johnson did in Detroit in 1967.  This was in concert with the governor.  It is unclear what happens if a democrat governor refuses to quell the violence and refuses federal efforts to stop it.

In 1967 – “Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan Army National Guard into Detroit to help end the disturbance. President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in the United States Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions. The result was 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed.”

Here are some more references on the 1967 race riots in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot#:~:text=Romney%20ordered%20the%20Michigan%20Army,more%20than%202%2C000%20buildings%20destroyed.

https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/1967-detroit-riots

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-07-12/race-troubles-109-us-cities-faced-violence-in-1967

Ray Gruszecki

June 12, 2020

Systemic RACISM! – Nonsense – The Inconvenient Truth

Systemic RACISM! – Nonsense – The Inconvenient Truth

The immature and uninformed demonstrators that have elevated the unfortunate death of a black ex-con and drug user to martyrdom, and have taken up the leftist inspired “black lives matter” mantle, need to come back down to some semblance of reality.  I know that expressing the truth and telling it like it is, in face of the glorification of both George Floyd, and the recent two weeks of protests and riots as symbols of black oppression by whites in this country, may be met with some opprobrium.

Our TV screens and our streets have been filled with both legal, first amendment demonstrators, and illegal criminals destroying our cities.  And all that we’ve been hearing for over two weeks is how systemic racism in our society is keeping people of color under some sort of yoke.

Nonsense!  This in 2020, not 1870.  Those four Minneapolis cops killing George Floyd was an outrage, whatever the circumstances.  So were defacing the Lincoln Memorial, burning St James Church in DC, and looting stores on Fifth Avenue in New York, outrages.  These atrocities had nothing to do with George Floyd or accusations of racial inequality.

And talking about “black lives matter”, black lives mattered to nearly 400,000 American Union soldiers who gave up their lives during the Civil War, to ensure freedom for black Americans.  Or have the immature and uninformed protesters and rioters in our streets forgotten about those sacrifices by white Americans to free people of color?

We are all Americans, with equal rights under the law, regardless of skin color, ethnicity and national origin, and with that comes equal responsibilities as citizens of our country.  But unfortunately, left wing identity politics has increasingly succeeded in separating us into identity groups clamoring for some sort of special privilege, because of color or some other distinguishing characteristic.  This is the root cause of our divisiveness, and the current furor in our streets, and in our society.

Not to say that there is not some residual bigotry in our society.  Of course, there is.  And peaceful demonstrations to bring this bigotry to society’s attention are positive.  But not to the claims of the identity politics radicals that we are a systemically RACIST! country.  Not by looting our cities, defacing our national monuments and destroying our infrastructure.  And not for weeks on end by edifying a marginal petty criminal and drug user to martyrdom.  And most certainly not by the undisguised posturing and pandering by congressional democrats donning African raiment and kneeling to the radical mob! For shame, Nancy Pelosi!

Ray Gruszecki

June 10, 2020

Where are the Adults in the Country?

Where are the Adults in the Country?

Will the adults in the country come forward and make themselves known?  Or are we going to let our streets and our country be taken over by “woke” children who act as if they are in a junior college social justice seminar, rather than in real life.  We need some veracity and common sense to counter the false narrative that seems to have overtaken the country.  We need to look at the actual numbers of police and other killings in the country, rather than the fictional narratives constructed by “woke” leftist and media activists, to get a true picture.

Am I the only thinking American outraged by what is happening in our country?  George Floyd, a black American, was killed by bad cops in a terrible way, at least as seen from a bystander’s smartphone video of the killing.  The lead cop, with his knee on Floyd’s neck was white.  The other three cops who helped, were black, Hispanic and Asian.  The killing was despicable, but where is the “systemic racism” in this murder?

The cop kneeling on Floyd’s neck knew Floyd, and worked with him as a bouncer at a local night club.  The two men obviously had history.  Floyd himself had a long criminal record, and had THC, fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system.  All of these are readily available facts, not conjecture or conspiracy theories. 

Not exactly a formula for the “systemic police racism” against a “martyred” black citizen resulting in over two weeks of protests, rioting and billions of dollars of destruction in our streets, and exacerbated by the frantic media mob.  This was a murder by a diverse group of rogue cops, of someone in their custody, and they are being prosecuted for that crime.  A person was killed, and that’s a terrible thing, but again, where is the “systemic racism”?

Some numbers, not rhetoric.  In 2016, the FBI reports that 2,870 blacks were murdered in the U.S., of which, 243 were murdered by whites, and 2,570 were murdered by other blacks and the balance by others.  See any systemic racism in these gross murder numbers? https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls

Heather MacDonald reports in the Wall Street Journal about police killings, that:  --

“In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.

The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015.  In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.

On Memorial Day weekend, 2020 in Chicago alone, 10 African-Americans were killed in drive-by shootings. This past weekend, 80 Chicagoans were shot in drive-by shootings, 21 fatally, the victims overwhelmingly black. Police shootings are not the reason that blacks die of homicide at eight times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined; criminal violence is.”

No systemic police violence in Heather MacDonald’s Wall Street Journal article and the Washington Post data, either.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883

As fellow Americans with the same rights, and living under the same laws, we need to be sympathetic to American citizens who have a darker skin color, because bigotry does still exist in parts of our American society, and unfortunately this includes some of our law enforcement. That is not to say, as identity politics professes, and that is now being echoed by every left-wing voice in the country, that racism is “systemic” across our culture. The vast majority of Americans in the 2020’s are tolerant and fair-minded people that accept the equality and equal rights of all Americans, regardless of skin color, ethnicity and ancestral origin.

But we continue to hear stories of black Americans, being harassed and killed simply because of their skin color. Although these stories are anecdotal, they are always egregious. The recent examples include the killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and Breonna Taylor in her bed in Louisville.  Similar brutal murders of white people are not treated with a similar urgency.  They do not fit the identity politics narrative.

These are examples of that residual bigotry that needs to be stamped out in our society. But how? These racist beliefs are ingrained in a small segment of our society, and that includes some police, and cannot be blasted out with laws, social mores or any other immediate social niceties. Only long-term education can slowly wear down these unhealthy beliefs.

Legal, First Amendment demonstrations and protests can serve to highlight grievances, and raise awareness of abuses. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen, every day since May 11th when George Floyd was killed, the originally peaceful protests have either been incited to violence and looting by outside elements such as Antifa and various other extreme left-wing anarchists, or hijacked by socialist democrat city administrations, which include so-called “social justice” leftists to support “police defunding” and other social upheavals reminiscent of Marxist-Leninist revolutions.

Where is the “SYSTEMIC” racism in our country, other than in the leftist rhetoric of the Trump-haters in the streets? And it is evident that the street crowds are nearly all “woke” children; 20-something, liberal, Trump-haters. I don’t see any of this crowd wearing MAGA hats, or carrying “Trump” signs.

Ray Gruszecki

June 8, 2020

President Donald Trump is Not a Racist

President Donald Trump is Not a Racist

I feel that it’s important to put facts out there that can be referenced, particularly in view of the 90% negative and many times, false, rhetoric being spewed by our biased mainstream media about President Trump.  Trump is continually accused of RACISM!, which he is not racist.  He is never given credit for his accomplishments, which are many.  This is about the accusations of RACISM!

We need to define and declare, once and for all, that Donald Trump is not a RACIST!, as he has been painted by the left, and by the biased mainstream media.

The left – democrats, Hollywood, the mainstream media, have all taken up the chant “Donald Trump is a RACIST!”, Racist in chief” and much worse epithets.  Whenever Trump criticizes a politician for ineptitude or corruption, and the politician has a tinge of color or “protected” ethnicity, leftists accuse Trump of RACISM, XENOPHOBIA or worse.  Of course, Trump doesn’t help the matter, because many of his unfiltered pronouncements and tweets are straight from the streets of Queens and the Bronx, and not carefully crafted to avoid adverse cries of “RACIST”, from the left or the mainstream media.

My own opinion, and that of many Americans is that Donald Trump is no more RACIST than many of us.  We acknowledge the differences in physical appearance or opinions of people, but we believe that we are all Americans and have the same civil rights, including the right to be criticized for ineptitude, or anti-social or anti-American rhetoric.  When Trump criticizes Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib, for example, who regularly spew anti-Semitic and anti-American invective, he is attacked as “RACIST” and ISLAMAPHOBIC”!  On this score and many others, most Americans, other than the loud and frankly obnoxious leftist elitists, agree with Trump and are color blind in their criticism.

I’ve tried to reconcile in my mind whether Donald Trump has been, and continues to be, truly a racist individual. i.e. does Trump feel that whites are superior to other races, and does he take actions to marginalize those races.  He has stated on many occasions that all Americans, regardless of race or ethnic background are equal under the law.  By his actions in government, he has improved the economic status of all Americans, and he is particularly proud of raising the economic standards of black and Hispanic Americans.  So by these standards of his stated beliefs and actions, he is not a racist.

Trump’s many (90%) detractors in the mainstream media cite the numerous times that he has spiced his rhetoric with racially inappropriate comments, as indeed he has.  Of particular objection were his comments during the Charlottesville riots that there were some decent folks on both sides of the argument, and that there were rioters opposing the white supremacists that were as bad as the white supremacists. Can these truisms be held as racist statements?  Also cited is Trump’s long record of being picked up, on open mike, of being inappropriately racial.

Without seeming too much to condone his blurting of racial epithets, let’s remember Trump’s background as an Eastern U.S. and NYC construction contractor and later as a media personality. Past generations of people from the northern parts of the country like the Bronx and Queens were much more aware of their ethnic backgrounds than in other parts of the country or in the present day.  Sometimes this resulted in an under-current of racism, but for the most part it served as good-natured pride in one’s origins.  For the most part, people were pragmatic, and looked at results, rather than someone’s last name or the color of their skin.  Derogatory epithets like “wop” or “polack” or “kraut” or “mick”, and yes, even the terrible “N” word, were there, but many times not used in a truly hateful manner.

And of course, eventually, the world changed as minorities sought true equality, and we mostly stopped calling each other these colorful names.  Along with the recent phenomenon of political correctness, came the “social justice” police or identity Nazis, who picked up every nuance of these once pretty harmless ethnic nicknames as egregious racial slurs, and “exposed” them on the broadcast and social media.  Such that any “slips” from Trump or other septuagenarians steeped in the past verbiage of ethnicity, became unpardonable displays or “dog whistles” of the horrors of racism and worse.

So, is Trump a racist?  I think the best answer is that he is no more racist than anyone his age and background.  He has put his foot in his mouth, (or his thumbs on the tweeter), and has expressed some racially inappropriate things.  His actions, on the other hand have not shown him to be racist, and in fact he has done more for the economic well-being of minorities than most of his predecessors.

This Article by Deroy Murdock Examines Trump’s actual record on racism and white supremacy, and points out his many comments and actions against it.  Murdock also lists some gaffes, which, if not, it wouldn’t be Trump. 

Don’t Ignore Trump’s Unifying, Anti-Racist Rhetoric

By DEROY MURDOCK

August 9, 2019 1:33 PM

At least 25 times the president spoke against hate, and three things he shouldn’t have said

Not even the “Paper of Record” could resist the Left’s Big Lie: Donald J. Trump is America’s “racist-in-chief.”

After last weekend’s deadly mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Democrats and other Trump haters demanded that the president denounce white nationalism, which apparently propelled the alleged Texas gunman. President Trump did exactly that.

“The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate,” Trump said Monday. “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul.”

The Old Gray Lady’s page-one, online headline reflected these remarks: “TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM”

But those accurate words enraged Democrats. They disproved the leftist lie that Trump is a divisive bigot.

“I canceled my subscription,” CNN contributor Joan Walsh thundered. “I can’t keep rewarding such awful news judgment.”

Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) bellowed: “Lives literally depend on you doing better, NYT. Please do.”

America’s top Democrat, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, was corrosive: “Let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by — and often relies upon the cowardice of mainstream institutions.”

With their tails jammed between their legs, this rag’s editors substituted a headline to soothe their Democrat masters:

“ASSAILING HATE BUT NOT GUNS”

The myth that President Trump is a kloset Klansman is the Left’s relentless refrain. The first headline T-boned into this lie. And the lie won.

This nonstop lie almost totally has eclipsed the fact that Trump has fought hate, racism, and anti-Semitism since before his candidacy:

1) “In spring 2004,” Trump told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, “I was the grand marshal of the 40th Salute to Israel Parade, the single largest gathering in support of the Jewish state.” — March 21, 2016

2) “What the hell do you have to lose?” Trump entreated black voters at numerous whistle stops. He also sought black support at a Cleveland charter school, plus churches in Detroit and Flint, Mich. — Fall 2016

3) “Whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska,” Trump said in his inaugural address, “they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.” — January 20, 2017

4) “I don’t think we’ve ever had this many people in the Oval Office,” Trump marveled as he welcomed several dozen presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and opened a White House office to assist them. –February 17, 2017

5) “Tonight, as we mark the conclusion of our celebration of Black History Month, we are reminded of our Nation’s path toward civil rights and the work that still remains,” Trump said in his maiden speech to Congress. “Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a Nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms.”

He also called for “an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African-American and Latino children.” — February 28, 2017

5) “I chose to make my first foreign visit a trip to the heart of the Muslim world,” Trump said in Saudi Arabia. “To the leaders and citizens of every country assembled here today, I want you to know that the United States is eager to form closer bonds of friendship, security, culture, and commerce.” –May 21, 2017

6) “I can see a much deeper path — friendship with Israel,” Trump said in Jerusalem. That morning, while wearing a yarmulke, he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest spot. — May 22, 2017

7) “We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for, there is no place for this kind of violence in America. Let’s come together as one!” Trump wrote via Twitter, as deadly race riots rocked Charlottesville, Va. “We must remember this truth: No matter our color, creed, religion, or political party, we are ALL AMERICANS FIRST.” — Aug. 12, 2017 — 10:19 a.m.

8) “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence, on many sides,” Trump told journalists, after neo-Nazi motorist James Alex Fields Jr. plowed into a crowd of anti-KKK protesters, killing Heather Heyer. “We have to come together as Americans with love for our nation and true affection — really — and I say this so strongly — true affection for each other.” — August 12, 2017 — 3:33 p.m.

9) “Racism is evil,” Trump said. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” — August 14, 2017

10) There were “very fine people, on both sides,” in Charlottesville, “protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee,” Trump said. He specified: “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally.” He also called them “rough, bad people.” — August 15, 2017

11) “The men and women of our military operate as one team,” Trump said at Fort Myer in Virginia. “They transcend every line of race, ethnicity, creed, and color to serve together — and sacrifice together — in absolutely perfect cohesion. That is because all service members are brothers and sisters. They’re all part of the same family; it’s called the American family.” — August 21, 2017

12) “Our movement is a movement built on love. It’s love for fellow citizens. It’s love for struggling Americans who’ve been left behind, and love for every American child who deserves a chance to have all of their dreams come true,” Trump told supporters in Phoenix. “From the inner cities to the rural outposts, from the Sun Belt to the Rust Belt, from east to west and north to south, our movement is built on the conviction that every American from every background is entitled to a government that puts their needs first.” — August 22, 2017

13) “It is time to heal the wounds that divide us and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us. We are one people with one home and one great flag,” Trump told the American Legion’s national convention. “We are not defined by the color of our skin, the figure on our paycheck, or the party of our politics. We are defined by our shared humanity, by our citizenship in this magnificent nation, and by the love that fills our hearts.” — August 23, 2017

14) “Today, I am asking every citizen to join me in dreaming big and bold and daring things — beautiful things — for our country,” Trump said, while promoting tax cuts. “I am asking everyone in this room and across the nation to join me in demanding nothing but the best for our nation and for our people. And if we do these things, and if we care for and support each other, and love each other, then we will truly make America great again.” — August 30, 2017

15) “Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital,” Trump said. “I am also directing the State Department to begin preparation to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”  –December 6, 2017

16) “With the rising of tonight’s moon, I send my greetings and best wishes to all Muslims observing Ramadan in the United States and around the world,” Trump’s holiday greeting stated. “Ramadan reminds us of the richness Muslims add to the religious tapestry of American life.” — May 15, 2018

17) At a White House iftar dinner for Muslim U.S. officials and Islamic diplomats, Trump welcomed his guests in Arabic: “To each of you and to the Muslims around the world: Ramadan Mubarak.” — June 6, 2018

18) “Anti-Semitism and the widespread persecution of Jews represent one of the ugliest and darkest features of human history,” Trump said, soon after a deadly shooting at  Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. “There must be no tolerance for anti-Semitism in America or for any form of religious or racial hatred or prejudice.” — October 27, 2018

19) “All Americans, whether first generation or tenth generation, are bound together in love and loyalty, friendship and affection,” Trump said in the Oval Office, after swearing in new citizens from Austria, Germany, Great Britain, and Norway as well as Bolivia, Iraq, Jamaica, and South Korea. “We are all equal. We are one team, and one people, proudly saluting one great American flag. We believe in a safe and lawful system of immigration, one that upholds our laws, our traditions, and our most cherished values.” — January 19, 2019

20) “We must never ignore the vile poison of anti-Semitism, or those who spread its venomous creed,” Trump declared in his State of the Union address. “With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs.” Trump introduced his special guests: Dachau survivor Joshua Kaufman and World War II veteran Herman Zeitchik, who liberated that Nazi concentration camp. — February 5, 2019

21) “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems,” Trump said about white supremacism. “It’s certainly a terrible thing.” –March 15, 2019

22) “In a moment, I will sign a presidential proclamation recognizing Israel’s sovereign right over the Golan Heights,” Trump said. “We will confront the poison of anti-Semitism through both our words and, maybe even more importantly, our actions. . . . Israel is an inspiration, a trusted ally, and a cherished friend. The United States will always stand by its side.” — March 25, 2019

23) “Our entire nation mourns the loss of life, prays for the wounded, and stands in solidarity with the Jewish community,” Trump said, after a fatal  shooting  at southern Calif.’s Chabad of Poway synagogue. “We forcefully condemn the evil of anti-Semitism and hate, which must be defeated.” — April 27, 2019

24) “We will fight with all of our strength and everything that we have in our bodies to defeat anti-Semitism, to end the attacks on the Jewish people, and to conquer all forms of persecution, intolerance, and hate,” Trump said as he welcomed to the Rose Garden the Chabad of Poway’s Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. — May 2, 2019

25) “Devotion to our founding ideals led American patriots to abolish the evil of slavery, secure civil rights, and expand the blessings of liberty to all Americans,” Trump said at the Lincoln Memorial. “In 1963, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. stood here on these very steps and called on our nation to live out the ‘true meaning of its creed,’ and ‘let freedom ring’ for every citizen all across our land.” Trump added: “America’s fearless resolve has inspired heroes who defined our national character” including “the great Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman,” and “Jackie Robinson.” — July 4, 2019

Conversely, President Trump never should have said several things:

As Trump correctly remarked at his June 16, 2015, campaign launch — there are Mexican illegal aliens who are “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” But the rest of that notorious quote — “And some, I assume, are good people” — insufficiently narrowed Trump’s brush.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel was born in Indiana and, thus, is neither a Mexican jurist nor unqualified to adjudicate a case involving Trump, as the president asserted.

The four-member, far-left Democrat “Squad” are all U.S. citizens. Three of these House members are native-born. So, Trump should not have told them to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

On July 27, Trump answered criticism from Representative Elijah Cummings (D., Md.) by calling his district, which includes west Baltimore, “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” Soon after the Left slammed this comment as racist, video surfaced of former Democrat mayor Catherine Pugh walking through her city and saying, “Whoa, you can smell the rats.” Cummings himself said: “I have known the little girls who I have watched grow up from babies and now selling their bodies for $5 at 14 years old.” Somehow it’s not racist when Democrats describe Baltimore. It’s racist only when Trump describes Baltimore.

And yet, as the aforementioned 25 examples confirm, President Trump repeatedly has denounced hatred, racism, and anti-Semitism. He has applauded blacks, Jews, and Muslims. While Trump opposes illegal immigrants, he has praised legal immigrants — including Latin Americans.

White supremacists do not do this.

Trump’s magnanimous words here would shock most Americans. Too many journalists who should report them instead conceal them. Likewise, the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news broadcasts totally ignored Rabbi Goldstein’s glowing words about Trump. (“Mr. President, when you called me, I was at home weeping. You were the first person who began my healing. You heal people in their worst of times, and I’m so grateful for that.”) Never mind that Goldstein wore blue bandages where his fingers had been, before a deadly gunman shot them off.

By muffling the president’s repeated pleas to undermine racists and unite the country, the Trump-hating media give aid and comfort to bullies and bigots. When journalists almost unanimously bury Trump’s efforts to isolate haters and consolidate America, fear and loathing thrive. Presidential words that would shame haters and inspire lovers instead stay under wraps, so that some 90 percent of the press can despise Trump in peace. In this sense, the left-wing media are the unindicted conspirators of America’s anti-Semites, white nationalists, and other odious racists.

Re-combined, June 7, 2020

Ray Gruszecki