Breaking News August 30, 2017 Now the time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise…Forgiveness, Redemption, Conversion, Faith…President Donald Trump loves his country…America…and he loves the American people; he is loyal to his country and its people.“There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:13Loyalty is more than words; true loyalty will result in actions. Action is what President Trump is giving to ‘We the People,’…he lives, loves and breathes l
Take heed and read my fellow Americans, the corrupt, evil, rigged system, as noted in the Politico article, is the enemy of America. It will illustrate and demonstrate to ‘We the People,’ the American people, as to why President Donald J. Trump is a God sent spiritually touched leader whose brave, courageous and bold leadership’s God-sent prophetic message, on the campaign trail that ‘if I am elected president;’ ‘We are going to create a whole new system and we will take this system apart.” “I want to make America great again.” America First!’ Which means: change and replace the evil corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system of male White Supremacy and control.
President Trump’s prophetic words strike at the very core, at the heart, of White Supremacy ideology and the evil, corrupt, rigged, sexist and racist system will go to any length to block and stop the fulfillment of President Trump’s promise and prophecy; inclusive of President Trump being impeachment, President Trump’s provocation of a nuclear war, painting President Trump as the perpetrator, the cause and therefore the blame for this would be death toll, and it will go to any means to stop and block President Trump from continuing as president to ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Heather Heyer’s death must not have been in vain. We must establish an anti-White Supremacy HATE Law in her honor transforming the universal denouncement and condemnation of White Supremacy Hate and violence into legal law…’We must establish it by law and not by force of fraud, but by law.’ It can be called the Heather Heyer Anti-White Supremacy Hate and Violence Act and by doing so we are paying homage to a great, patriotic American woman, who lived, practiced, stood up for and died for America’s Founding Principles of: Liberty, Justice, Equality, Freedom and Peace. Heather Heyer is the heart of America, her spirit lives on and it must never be forgotten or allowed to die just as the fact that young black people were and are being murdered indiscriminately, with impunity and no consequence. MANY of these victims still wait for justice to be carried out: Emmitt Till, Aavielle Wakefield, Major Howard, Ramon Burnett, Trayvon Martin, Jamiel Shaw, Ernest Satterwhite, Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Levar Jones, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Charly “Africa” Leudeukeunang,
Almighty God, we Americans humbly pray to you to bless us with a peaceful transition of government and that nobody gets hurt in the process. Heavenly Father, please bless us with the guidance, the direction and the ways and means in which we, as Americans, can unite and become ONE AMERICA…touching the heart of President Donald J. Trump and enabling him to fulfill his promise and commitment to be President to ALL THE PEOPLE, while Making America Great Again. I ask and pray in the name of Jesus Christ, My Lord and Savior….Amen! Don King
But as the historian and New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb observed, “The biggest indictment of the way we teach American history is that people can look at and say ‘This is not who we are.’” It is part of the myth of American Exceptionalism that blood and soil movements like Nazism are foreign to the United States—that jackbooted fascism of the variety that infects democratic institutions is an invasive weed that can be easily plucked out of our national garden. To affirm that this is not who we are, one has to erase the history of American race relations from our very recent, collective past.
Politicians and pundits often invoke the idea of American Exceptionalism with little understanding of its origins. A woolly concept with roots that extend back to the era of colonial settlement, it views the United States as somehow immune from the forces of history. The term assumed prominence in the middle part of the 20th century, as social scientists working in the aftermath of two world wars attempted to understand why endemic social, economic and political divisions that drove a century of combat, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Europe were seemingly non-operative in the United States. Was it because America lacked a feudal past? Because it was a land with greater material
Many of these murders took place under cover of darkness, but many didn’t. Socalled spectacle lynchings—like the execution of Sam Hose, who was burned alive by a large white mob in Georgia in 1898, or Luther Holdbert and his wife, whose fingers were chopped off one-by-one, and whose eyes were torn from their sockets in front of an admiring crowd of one thousand of their white neighbors before their death—were premeditated and well-attended acts of public amusement. They were announced in advance by newspaper advertisement. Day laborers and middle-class professionals traveled by specially chartered trains just to participate or bear witness.
In the same way that mid-century scholars ignored the homespun violence so prevalent in their recent history, today, well-meaning people on the left and right have glossed over resurgent American tendencies on display yesterday in Charlottesville. The pathetic specter of suburban white men donning camouflage uniforms and bearing long guns and clubs may conjure images of Berlin in 1932, but it should also invoke memories of the United States in the 1920s. During the 1920s, roughly 5 million men, and 500,000 women, were at one time dues-paying members of the second Ku Klux Klan, an informal fraternal organization that also functioned in many communities as an extralegal citizens’ militia. Though many of its local chapters bore closer resemblance to the American Legion than to the shadowy band of vigilantes who terrorized the Southern countryside a half-century before, others were unusually violent— particularly the Texas Klan, headed by Hiram Evans, a former Dallas dentist with a burning hatred of the organization’s usual roster of victims: Jews, Catholics and African Americans. As early as 1921, a damning expose in the New York World chronicled a nationwide KKK terror campaign that included four murders, 41 beatings and 27 tar-and-feather parties.
Like their predecessors of the 1860s, Klansmen were primarily concerned about maintaining white Protestant supremacy, but they also fashioned themselves as great moralists, often calling for more vigorous enforcement of Prohibition laws. In some cases, they stepped in to fill the void left by local police, as when they conducted highly publicized raids on private stills in Oklahoma and “arrested” 140 violators of anti-liquor laws. Above all, they feared the corrosive effects of modern culture on traditional family values. An apparent rise in illicit sex and marital infidelity drove the Klan to undertake a bizarre, often sadistic, campaign of vigilante justice against men and women who most conspicuously flouted 19th-century social conventions.
Naturally, the Klan particularly reviled “the revolting spectacle of a white woman clinging in the arms of a colored man.” But more pedestrian violations of Victorian propriety also vexed members of the order. In Evansville, Indiana, William Wilson, the teenaged son of the local Democratic congressman, remembered that Klan riders ruthlessly patrolled back roads in search of teenagers embroiled in petting parties or improper embraces. Armed with their National Horse Thief Detective Association badges—emblems of a 19th-century vigilante organization—the KKK “entered homes without search warrants” and “flogged errant husbands and wives. They tarred and feathered drunks. They caught couples in parked cars.” In an almost pornographic ceremony that was repeated dozens if not hundreds of times, Klan members hauled “fallen women” to remote locations, stripped them naked and flogged them.
After the attack, our quick-thumbed president, never shy about denouncing enemies both real and imagined, couldn’t bring himself to denounce white supremacy. Couldn’t bring himself to denounce the Klan. Couldn’t even be moved to denounce Nazis. On Sunday, the White House released a statement denouncing white supremacists, but Trump himself still remains silent. He knows his base. And as long as Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Julia Hahn, and Sebastian Gorka—all of whom have actively promoted and endorsed racialist ideology and policies—work in the West Wing, this is not a fringe movement. It is mainstream. It represents the governing philosophy of the governing party— the Republican party.
The country, and especially the GOP—, which controls 34 governorships and majorities in both houses of Congress—stands at a crossroads. One road leads forward, and the other winds backward. We can return to being the kind of country we were in 1925 or 1955—the kind of country that knowingly sacrificed democratic norms and institutions to enforce white supremacy, often through violence and force—or we can join other advanced, civilized nations in embracing the future. Many of these nations, particularly in Europe, are also contending with the rise of right-wing populist movements. But they are deeply aware of their past—a past that includes ethnic cleansing, genocide, and race laws—and arguably better positioned to deal with their present. Part of making an informed decision is understanding our history.
“But if we would have white supremacy, we must establish it by law—not by force or fraud. If you teach your boy that it is right to buy a vote, it is an easy step for him to learn to use money to bribe or corrupt officials or trustees of any class. If you teach your boy that it is right to steal votes, it is an easy step for him to believe that it is right to steal whatever he may need or greatly desire. The results of such an influence will enter every branch of society, it will reach your bank cashiers, and affect positions of trust in every department; it will ultimately enter your courts, and affect the administration of justice.”
