I have always heard that America was a dangerous place for
non-whites, but thought that with the
election of Barack Obama, the country was on its way to redemption.
Then along came Donald J Trump.
When he said " Make America Great Again", Trump
knew full well that it had never been great for non-white people, but that did not matter as that sector had never been important to
him.
You see, racism is in his DNA.
This, he made abundantly clear when his regime used brutal
methods on even babies, coming from south of the border while ruing the fact that more people from Norway were not migrating to the USA!
This was quickly
followed by his charges that Haitians and Nigerians were from were shit house
countries.
I suppose, even these types of racist remarks should not have been
surprising since he had become the de facto leader of white supremacists from
2014, when he led the charge to try and discredit Obama through the
"birther conspiracy."
Oh no, I would never claim Trump is the father of white
supremacy in the USA, but he certainly gave it legitimacy when he, as
president, described Klan members, neo-nazis, and other white supremacists who
demonstrated in Charlotteville in 2017,
as very good people.
Despite all this and the number of cruel murders and
lynchings of blacks by the white establishment, amazingly, those seeking
justice remained very patient until May 2020.
Derek Chauvin, the policeman who murdered George Floyd in
slow motion. This act he nonchalantly carried out during an 8 minute period, as
the victim, feeling the breath leaving his body, cried out in desperation for
his long deceased mother
.
It took a chilling video of Derek Chauvin, a white policeman in Minnesota, murdering George Floyd in plain view and in
slow motion, with his hand nonchalantly
in his pocket, for the bubble to burst.
And this was over a $20 bill which they claimed was fake, but
which turned out to be real!
This event followed closely on the heels on a series of blatant, racist events, also in full
color, which would have aroused even the angels in heaven.
Among the incidents
which immediately preceded this horrific murder were; the video widely
circulated on social media, in which a woman is heard questioning her baby
daughter who is clearly just learning to speak, about where her snacks
were. The child replied "a black man stole them" and the mother laughed in approval, for her child had
certainly learned her lesson well; the
news of a Georgia pastor, claiming he had been robbed and abducted by black men
to cover up the fact that he was spending the time he could not be found, in a
hotel with a man he met in Craig List; the news of the mother in Florida
claiming her son was abducted by black men when the truth was she had killed
her own child by drowning him; the situation in Georgia, where the authorities had for 74 days, (from February to May) refused to arrest the father and son team of white supremacists, Gregory and Travis McMichael, who had murdered an unarmed black jogger, Ahmaud Arbery, and the clear expectation by the lying Amy Cooper, that she could get a policeman to come to brutalize or kill an Afro American bird-watcher in Central Park for allegedly threatening her, when indeed all he had done was to tell her to obey the law and leash her dog.!
Amy Cooper. called the police on Christian Cooper, an Afro American Harvard educated
biomedical editor, who she no doubt expected to be killed or brutalized by
white cops, on her say so!
The white supremacists Gregory and Travis McMichael ho lynched the black jogger Ahmaud Arbery.
The straw, however, was the brutal murder in slow motion, of George Floyd.
While, thanks to cell phone users, there have been regular
videos of the racist police and white supremacists murdering unarmed black
people all over the USA, they have been getting away with it. for only 1% of the police has
ever been convicted for such murders.
Before this, the white establishment always claimed such incidents were isolated events.
In May 2020 however, the truth about systemic, dangerous racism in
the USA was exposed for the entire world to see, and millions said "No more".
While some of the peaceful demonstrations against the murders and
injustice in the USA have been marred by criminals, white racists, and other agents provocateurs
infiltrating the demonstrations to try and discredit them, they have failed.
It is now clear that some of the agent provocateurs had hoped their actions would provide their leader, the president, with a reason to bring soldiers into the streets to kill peaceful demonstrators.
Happily, that too failed.
A white cop in the role of agent provocateur was outed by his own wife, who recognized him!
What has been particularly inspiring over these last few days, is the vast number of white people, predominantly the young, who have joined in the cry for justice throughout the world. For they are consciously putting their lives in danger for the cause, knowing they face the possibility of becoming infected by the killer carnivorous.
With the extent of media coverage (even Fox news covered
them impartially), it appears that for the first time, a large sector of white
America now realizes how oppressive the system has been to black citizens, and that must change.
As Al Sharpton said most appropriately, for centuries, the establishment
has kept their knees on the necks of minorities, and the message finally seems to be getting through.
This is borne out by the ABC poll of June 5th,
which found that 74% of Americans, now
recognize that systemic racism as a problem.
However, the bad news is, more than 25% refuse to accept
this and this amounts to around 80 million people, many of whom are in
influential positions.
This is why those calling for people to make sure that real
progress is made by voting, are on
target.
Yes, it is clear that if equality is ever to be achieved,
Trump has to go. But he is only the tip of the iceberg, for, while some things can be corrected at the federal level, it is at local government, that real reform will be meaningful.
Take the case of police forces clearly having a significant number of recruits drawn from organizations such as the Ku Klux
Klan and other racist groups, that can only be dealt with at the local
level. At the local level too, many district attorneys are elected and that is also where you find influential political idiots like Cynthia Brehm, a GOP
chairwoman in Texas, who said in a tweet, that George Floyd's murder was
staged!
The system at the local level is rife with powerful people
like her.
Yes, peaceful demonstrations have their role, but until the
systemic problems at the local level which have led to numerous
injustices like: 50% of non-whites being unemployed while only 21% are;
outright bias in the sentencing of non-whites in the courts; unfair and murderous treatment by the police: chronic underfunding of schools in black areas and the
poor health care for minorities which has led to the carnivorous wreaking havoc, George Floyd's's death and the death of so many other
innocents, will have been in vain for very little will change for the minorities.
And without real change at the legislative level in local government, racist presidents like Trump will continue to stand in the way of progress.
Question; Do you
think the cry for justice would have received such overwhelming support worldwide if
Donald Trump wasn't so despised for his overt racism and narcissism?
