Let me say it again
I lived in the same state with this man
for the first 2 decades of my life
This is an entitled, deranged white supremacist
He's a racist to his bone marrow
Racism comes out of him like a sneeze
But I'm pretty damn sure that he and his Nationalistic alt-Right white supremacist minions demonstrated their contempt for Native Americans on purpose this week.
The is a still photo from a video where Trump felt it necessary to mock a white congressman. Elizabeth Warren, by calling her Pocahontas during an award ceremony for Native Americans.
Yeah, he's an racist idiot. There was likely no brain engagement at all. He saw Native Americans, he thought about Elizabeth Warren and mocking a non-white icon was automatic.
This is not new from him.
However, the painting behind the Orange Orangutan Racist and was placed there as part of the background scenery for presenting an honor to Native Americans.
However, the painting behind the Orange Orangutan Racist and was placed there as part of the background scenery for presenting an honor to Native Americans.
That painting is of Andrew Jackson, one of the worst President this country has ever seen. A hero of white folks, the Cherokees actually called Andrew Jackson "Indian Killer" in the early 19th century because while he was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Native Americans is also responsible for the Indian Removal Act commonly called "The Trail of Tears"*
Think about it. Trump didn't hang that painting himself. And there's no way there's somebody else as stupid as he is on his staff. I think somebody deliberately put that painting there behind those Native Americans as a kind of winking gesture to white supremacist base.
THE VERY NEXT DAY
Trump used his twitter account to bash Muslims
President Trump has repeatedly made a show of flouting convention on his Twitter feed, spouting off falsehoods and occasionally pandering to or amplifying once-fringe voices. In that light, a string of retweets he made Wednesday morning could be considered par for the course. They shouldn’t be.
In between tweets bashing media organizations that report stories he doesn’t like, Trump retweeted three videos from the Twitter account of Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, an obscure far-right outfit widely considered to be a hate group. Fransen herself faces charges of “religiously aggravated harassment” after she shouted slurs at a hijab-wearing woman walking with her children last year.
The three tweets in question presented videos of murky origin [one has been proven a lie already] with flat, crude captions: “Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!,” “Muslim destroys a statue of Virgin Mary!” and “Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!”
The white mainstream press is finally saying -- approximately two years too late-- Trump's sources of information are racists. They are saying his own words are racist. But they have not crossed the line into complete truth telling.
"He is a racist."
"Racist" is not an epithet. This word has meaning. And Trump is one. Most, if not all, of his ideas about non-white people are born of racism which means,
"He is a racist" is simply the truth
"He is a racist" is simply the truth
The Trail of Tears [1830-1850] was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Indian Territory. The forced relocations were carried out by various government authorities following the [Jackson's] passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
[Thousands of women, children, and men suffered and died from exposure, disease, and starvation while WALKING HUNDERDS OF MILES to their various destinations.....]
The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting [white people petitioning the government to steal the land and the subsequent] Georgia Gold Rush.
Approximately 2,000-6,000 of the 16,543 relocated Cherokee perished along the way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
Side Note: Trump appointee Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasurty, stopped Tubman's face from replacing Andrew Jackson, this shameful representative of white supremacy, on the 20 dollar bill earlier this year.
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