Yet. He loves it! He relishes the chances to gin up his base and have them howl to the moon whenever he denigrates or slams his opponents. It is as if he is a medium channeling their personal grievances and frustrations at those “other” people who seemingly have it better than they do.

Trump is now trying to call out successful rich, black athletes for being ungrateful for their place in the pantheon of sports. America seemingly gives god-like status for athletes’ deft abilities on the playing field or court.

Now, Trump and his minions are pumping out the bilge that uppity NFL African-American

ballers should be full of gratitude and praise for what white America, has allowed them to accom plish; and for them to protest anything in the coliseums, (now known as football stadiums), shows that they are not worthy and should be fired!

For the president of the US of A to gladly call the protesting black athletes “SOB’s”, is to relegate black men to the status of chattel as they once were in the days of slavery and Jim Crow.

Trump, by the use of such vile language, challenges the very humanity and manhood of those

black men and, for good measure, he degraded their mothers as female dogs for giving birth to them!

Trump clearly showed by his choice of words, that he wants to demonize black, protesting athletes and to throw mud and utter contempt on their mothers.

Remember, these protests are not about Trump (until now!) or the flag or the national anthem. It started with one black quarterback who got sick and tired of being sick and tired and wanted to use his visible platform to bring rightful attention to the alarming stats of black men being killed and murdered by white police officers for the crime of being black.

It is no secret that if a cop is caught up in a “situation” involving a black man that results in the white officer killing or maiming the victim, all that white officer has to say is one of these tried and true canards: [1] I feared for my life! [2] He made a furtive move! or [3] I saw something shiny and thought he was going for a gun!

Say any one of those statements and that is the equivalency of a, “Get Out Of Jail” free card. No white jury will convict since it has been assessed that criminality is oft equated to being black and that all black men are inherently violent.

Trump, being an astute and seasoned race baiter, knew exactly what he was doing when in Huntsville, Alabama, he threw to that virtually all-white crowd the red meat of kicking black athletes in the butt and doing it with great glee.

Is Trump a despicable person? By all means he is. He cares only for himself and his own brand. Not being a man of history and seemingly not willing to learn from history, Trump acted as a demi-god and wanted to have all such black protesters fired by the owners of the affected football teams.

Protests are messy affairs. Just ask Rosa Parks, the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and the thousands of others who were killed, maimed, beaten, jailed, lost their jobs and were forced to leave upon threat of imminent bodily injury in their quest for equal freedom and justice.

Those who opposed kneeling during the national anthem or sitting during the pledge of allegiance when they attend sporting events, want to see the show and not be reminded that there are structural inequalities that have yet to be remedied.

They simply want to see high, flying acrobatics from the wide receiver or see daring yard eating runs from the tight end.

They do not want to see others protesting during their recreational time.

They want to forget about their ancestors taking America by force from the Native Americans.

They want to forget slavery and how that system of free labor enabled the early wealth of this country.

They do not want to be forced to revisit the evils of Jim Crow and the still ever-present stark evidence of residential segregation and ongoing employment apartheid.

They just want rich young black athletes to perform and razzle-dazzle them; and then, after the show, for them only to return for their next performance.

They want no pangs of conscience.

They want no big, burly black defensive lineman to look at them and demand an accounting of their racial machinations in creating two Americas.

Trump hijacked that righteous protest as his chance to stir America’s racial pot and to vent his spleen on those “SOB’s” who were bringing to the forefront America’s unwillingness to do the right thing regarding the criminal justice system.

By the comments Trump did and did not make about the Charlottesville Riot, Trump has shown his true colors and if he can polarize even more Americans against Americans, he wins!

Don’t let him win. Resist! Speak out! Say and do what is fair and right!

Don’t accommodate evil in its various forms even when that evil glaringly resides in the Oval Office.