He’s Not Better Than This
The morning following the 2016 election my son Jake asked me a simple question.
“How bad is it going to be?”
I didn’t lie to him.
“Pretty bad. We’re white. This is going to be really sad for gays, blacks, women and Mexicans.”
Man, was I wrong!
It hasn’t been pretty sad, it’s actually been terribly horrific. It reached a new low on Sunday. The tweets were flat-out racist.
There’s no other way to look at them.
And the media jumped all over it, as they should have. Yet, as they are prone to do, they played it up into a moral discussion of sorts.
Would the Republicans stand up and condemn the nasty words?
The very first guy went in another direction.
“I haven’t seen the tweets,” he said. “I was busy.”
My dog was aware of the tweets. Pretending that you don’t know what he said?
Coward.
Then Geraldo tried a different tact.
He half-assed it by lecturing Trump a little and then saying:
“You’re better than this.”
He’s not.
So, we needed to wait.
Would Trump apologize?
That’s funny.
He doubled down.
Then he tripled down.
He didn’t deny that the comments were racist.
“A lot of people agree with me,” he said.
And therein lies the rub.
He’s probably right about that.
You know how many times a black, Asian or Hispanic person has heard the following:
“Go back to where you came from.”
It’s hateful, rude, divisive and nasty.
And that might be the point.
Steve Bannon mentioned that keeping white people angry would result in winning elections for the next 40 years. Trump won in 2016 because people were unsettled about race.
A whole lot of people voted the way they did because a wall was promised.
A wall to keep brown away from white?
Trump thinks so...
...he’s seen the first polls related to 2020.
Hateful, nasty racism worked once, right?
I’m thinking he’s double and tripling down now...
...and he’s gonna’ bring millions along with him.
Sad, right?
Nah.
It’s worse than that.
It’s despicable.
“How bad is it going to be?”
I didn’t lie to him.
“Pretty bad. We’re white. This is going to be really sad for gays, blacks, women and Mexicans.”
Man, was I wrong!
It hasn’t been pretty sad, it’s actually been terribly horrific. It reached a new low on Sunday. The tweets were flat-out racist.
There’s no other way to look at them.
And the media jumped all over it, as they should have. Yet, as they are prone to do, they played it up into a moral discussion of sorts.
Would the Republicans stand up and condemn the nasty words?
The very first guy went in another direction.
“I haven’t seen the tweets,” he said. “I was busy.”
My dog was aware of the tweets. Pretending that you don’t know what he said?
Coward.
Then Geraldo tried a different tact.
He half-assed it by lecturing Trump a little and then saying:
“You’re better than this.”
He’s not.
So, we needed to wait.
Would Trump apologize?
That’s funny.
He doubled down.
Then he tripled down.
He didn’t deny that the comments were racist.
“A lot of people agree with me,” he said.
And therein lies the rub.
He’s probably right about that.
You know how many times a black, Asian or Hispanic person has heard the following:
“Go back to where you came from.”
It’s hateful, rude, divisive and nasty.
And that might be the point.
Steve Bannon mentioned that keeping white people angry would result in winning elections for the next 40 years. Trump won in 2016 because people were unsettled about race.
A whole lot of people voted the way they did because a wall was promised.
A wall to keep brown away from white?
Trump thinks so...
...he’s seen the first polls related to 2020.
Hateful, nasty racism worked once, right?
I’m thinking he’s double and tripling down now...
...and he’s gonna’ bring millions along with him.
Sad, right?
Nah.
It’s worse than that.
It’s despicable.
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