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Well, the same thing is happening with Herr Trump with
respect to those who want to desperately erase the label of
"racist" off of his forehead. They are constantly seeking
ways to show the public that their guy in the White House is
not tainted or stained with racial meanness.
But! Knowing Trump as we do, his lack of mechanisms to
slow his roll about his antipathy towards people of color
has shown to be worn thin so that the brakes on the car are
grinding and there are metal shavings are all over the road.
Nothing brings this to light more than his ongoing and
recent inflammatory attacks on three credentialed black
women journalists.
In spite of Herr Trump's demagoguery on all things
black and brown including the knowingly bogus birtherism
smear regarding President Obama, his castigating of the
people of Mexico who were coming to America as being rapists
and criminals and his giving credence to Neo Nazis in
Charlottesville, Trump continues his unabated rampage on
people of color.
Recently he directed his calumny at Yamiche Alcindor,
April Ryan and Abby Phillip when they simply asked him
pointed questions about his policy (?) positions on the Ken
Mueller investigation and relevant issues of Herr Trump
being identified as a white nationalist.
Of course Herr Trump, not known as being rudimentarily
identified with having a working knowledge of historical
facts and the proper workings of the government, was quick
to debase and insult the black women journalists.
For Herr Trump it appears that he gets some mean
satisfaction that he can drop nasty verbal bombs on black
women and black women journalists in particular.
Could it be that he simply loves to bully the media or
that he also takes great delight in haranguing black women?
Remember his constant hit on Congresswoman Maxine Waters as
being, "Low IQ"?
Or how could one not forget the verbal assaults on the
widow of the black serviceman who lost his life in the
country of Niger? Or calling former White House staffer
Omarosa a "dog.”
Does the battering of Colin Kaepernick for his taking a
knee during the national anthem, ring a bell?
And please do not forget his diatribe on the African sh*thole
countries and and all Africans living in mud huts and his
abuse of the country of Haiti, attacks on CNN host, Don
Lemon, LeBron James, Andrew Gillum (running for governor of
Florida was called a thief) and Stacey Adams (running for
governor of Georgia was deemed unfit for the office).
When it comes to issues of respect and dignity of
people of color, you can be assured that Herr Trump will
find a way, howbeit large or small, to minimize their
importance or intelligence and to humiliate them in public.
Herr Trump takes a seemingly perverse pleasure in
mocking people of color and downgrading them to either
simpletons or buffoons or racial caricatures that his base
can also use as objects of amusement or defilement.
If you witnessed Herr Trump's last press conference
(after the results of the mid-term elections whipping he
received), he was anxious and sporting for a fight and who
better to whip on or insult than black women?
For any black Republicans (an oxymoron in this day and
age to say the least!) who still try to hold the line and
shine a favorable light on their party's leader, good luck
with that!
Trump shows no respect for people of color and his
contempt for black female journalists borders on being
rabid. He would never sit down one on one with a
knowledgeable black female journalist because he knows that
she would eat his lunch and for good measure, take his
suntan bed money.
Repeatedly, Herr Trump has shown that he has no class,
no working knowledge of the ways of the world nor how to
negotiate and win friends in order to pass needed
legislation.
Trump is for all intensive purposes, a frightened loner
negotiating a world in which he is both angry at and
confused about and only his pathetic rallies surrounded by
similarly thinking people gives him a fleeting, "sugar high"
from a job that he has shown to be totally inept.
As the Mueller probe seemingly may be winding up, you
will see Herr Trump acting more like a frantic rabbit
running for his political life than a mature statesman who
is able to put both hands on the steering wheel and cobble
together any meaningful legislation before the prophetic
2020 elections.
You can only hope that more journalists will take their
cues from this unwarranted assault on their profession and
they will take on, as one, this rabbit for the singular
purpose of exposing him for what he has shown himself to be:
a fraud and a con whose end game is to wreak havoc on a
government that he seemingly disdains.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at
tolliver@juno.com
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