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Historical note: The Statute of Liberty was not designed
with Africans in mind and its laudable outreach paean as
chiseled in its base was not intended to be retroactive
towards Africans who came to these shores as citizens of
their own countries but were stripped of their citizenship
without due process of law…and then were derisively called
slaves.
Herr Trump, himself a product of immigration by his
grandparents (much less the history of two of his immigrant
wives), has decided that playing to the racial fears of his
base regarding their purported economic losses to immigrants
and those immigrants engagement in wanton criminal acts will
insure his re-election in the 2020 election.
Herr Trump and his devious minions have now devised a
brutal and irrational plan to stymie legal immigrants with
restrictions that if they arrive on these shores without
certain bona fides (aka: skills, education, money, good
health), he is not going to put out the American welcome
mat.
As a matter of fact, if his scandalous plan passes
judicial scrutiny, those who are in the US as legal
immigrants will feel the wrath of both Herr Trump and Herr
Miller since those legally certified immigrants may be
placed on a short list of enjoying the benefits of the
American safety net.
That safety net of WIC (Women, Infants and Children
getting milk and other maternal benefits for the welfare and
health of a family), Medicaid, unemployment insurance
benefits, food stamps (now known as, SNAP) and a host of
other tangible goodies that make America the land of
opportunity, will vanish or be severely curtailed.
Herr Trump is preparing to, “stick it to both the
illegal and legal immigrants”, big time!
America, if Herr Trump was to have his unobstructed
way, would paper over the Statute of Liberty’s beckoning
call to the world’s oppressed and he would recraft those
famous words to be simply: “Come here only if you are white
and got some dough in your pocket and you are not from a
“sh*thole country!”
Herr Trump has no use for brown or black people who
come in tattered rags or with little or no command of the
English language and with nothing but two nickels in their
pockets.
Trump wants those who have a lineage from Nordic/Aryan
stock and he would, just for the sake of appearances, may
admit a few computer savvy Asians who can fix our computers
or serve up delicious Chinese Dim Sum.
Those from the swarthy parts of Italy or north Africa or
those who are from Mexico, Central America and South America
can cancel their travel plans to a US port of entry to apply
for entry in America via a green card status or citizenship.
Herr Trump has donned his John Wayne 20-gallon hat and
has loaded up his two six shooters and is rallying the
troops to man the ramparts because the dark hordes are
coming to these shores and those invaders are in attack
mode!
Herr Trump has made this immigration his personal Alamo
and Big Horn (remember General Custer?) fused all into one.
He is standing in the gun tower with his orange comb over
blowing in the wind; and he is rousing up the NRA to pass
out the guns and the ammo because, here and now, Trump plans
to make his campaign stand on the cries and howls of
immigrants knocking on the door but Trump defiantly
screaming down to them, “No more…not now…not ever!”
Herr Trump sees the browning of America and it
frightens him. It gives him the heebie-jeebies to see so
many brown and black people walking down Main Street USA, or
they are shown partaking of the American Dream just like
prior white immigrants did and still do.
No, for Herr Trump, America, in his warped racist
thinking, is sinking and he plans to right the ship of state
and if that means defaming or creating stereotypes of
minorities being nigh the devil incarnate, so be it.
The slogan, Make America Great Again (used before in
KKK rallies) is his battle cry of telling his base that you
are either with him against these diseased hordes taking
over your cities, or you are going to see your daughters
marry brown-skinned and black -skinned men, who will give
you “butterscotch” grandkids as your progeny or inheritance.
Trump is finish with the political illusion that he is
not a racist. His comments and conduct over the years have
duly informed even the most obdurate listener that he is the
Real McCoy and all his limp denials of such a
characterization is of no value.
Trump, as former casino operator, is placing all of
chips at the roulette table on black. He is hoping that his
white base will see black and back him at this Alamo and Big
Horn debacle.
Trump has been labeled as a moron by those who have
worked closely with him. He is not an astute student of
history for if he was, he would have figured out by now that
both the Battle at Big Horn and the Mexican “invaders”
attacking the Alamo were losing causes for Trump’s duped
forces.
You can only hope that the terms of surrender when
offered by the next Democratic president to the defeated GOP
and Trump tattered forces will be befitting for a nation
that is in the early throes of more racial angst.
Hopefully this nation will want to see a purging of both
the tomfoolery of Herr Trump and the cowardice of the GOP
which has lost any semblance of being honest, laudable or
adhering to any touted conservative values which were long
ago shredded by this duplicitous president.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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