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MLK Day and A Promise To Inflict Great Harm
Josef Adolf Benito Pol Hirohito Zedong and Posing as False Friends of the Negro
Trump will bring to America: “the most aggressive, sweeping effort to restore our borders the world has ever seen.” Ever seen! Look out, world. American Carnage, here he comes. Those are his words.
“America’s decline is over.” That’s his inaugural message. I can’t tell you how crazy it is to hear the commentators play down the speech and symbolism of Trump.
“Trump really was not gracious or unifying in his speech.” Oh, did you just realize how divisive he is, how not ever gracious or unifying he was?
Frankly, one white commentator said he was surprised Trump talked about “manifest destiny.” It’s such a sensitive phrase that connotes, um, well, not nice things. The American government militarily forced the Native Indigenous off their national homelands, then auctioned them off to white colonial settlers over the course of officially 150 years.
I disagree with all of what Trump stands for and his diverse and horrific rhetoric that is emotionally destructive. He tears down Blacks, minorities, women, LBGTQ, and immigrants, which he vows to do today, his first day, MLKJ Day, as it builds up and empowers whites to become fearless in their derision of these groups.
