How Racial Attack On Black Community Increased By 200% Since Trump Became POTUS
November 21, 2020 582
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The emergence of Donald Trump as the president of America,
was one event that sent mixed feelings through the African-American community.
Some saw him as a harmless republican, while others saw his attitude and
statements as a sign of heightened racism. Many of those who saw him as
harmless, was disappointed within a short period into his tenure as president.
They saw his body language and actions embolden the white Supremacists and
racists in America.
In a very short period, the attacks and violence against
Black people went up. Black men and women faced the harsh and brutal guns of
racist white police, while many in the white community cheered them on. Donald
Trump's victory was a bold and clear indication that white people never stopped
being extremely racist.
Many were deceived because the Obama presidency seemed like
a U-turn in the general polity of America. African-Americans saw America as a
safer place because one of them was in the white house. But for the extremist
white supremacists, it was a painful era - a Black man leading them. So, when
Donald Trump came along, with all his campaign drama, the white supremacists
saw a leader whose agenda and utterances will uphold and further enable their
hatred.
In a statement of disbelief and disappointment, Melvin
Steals, a retired principal in Baden, Pennsylvania, said that: “Transparency
is the order of the day. Now we see what was hidden... “It’s like the era after
Reconstruction all over again, when they wanted to eradicate all of the gains
made by blacks after the Civil War... This is another opportunity to reassert
their authority... “At the core there is something nefarious about it. It’s
tied into white supremacy, that it’s their way or the highway.”
There are those who have said that the coming of Donald
Trump was propelled by a reaction of the white working-class who saw their
social and economic capital reduce during the Obama regime.
So, for them, Trump was a savior - the very person whose
racist comments and behavior would reduce white privilege and capital.
Donald Trump's "let’s make America great again"
slogan is simply a subtle way of saying, let's return white power back, since
America was coming from 8 years of Obama's rule.
For many white people, racism is not a bad thing. It is
actually the backbone of white supremacy. That is why many white people voted
for Donald Trump, even though many around the world view him as racist. Trump's
campaign and his victory meant that the KK won. At least that was the general
feeling among many circles in America. Trump built his political popularity by
employing certain racist techniques of the birther issue. Even though that was
a very sensitive topic, he never apologized for it.
More enraging was his unwillingness to denounce the KKK.
Many believe he was making a conscious effort to appeal and raise the racist
nature of white America.
Now if Donald Trump's victory came on the backs of the KKK
and the racist white-America, it is then simply to agree that white corps and
people would basically prosecute Black people, bearing in mind that they have a
grand-patron in the white house who will protect them. And honestly, this goes
beyond the president. It is the system which he has instituted to work for him
and with him - a racist system.
One case which reinforced the Racist nature of Donald Trump
against Blacks and other colored people was his racist and harsh remarks about
Colin Kaepernick's case with the NFL. Colin was protesting the reckless police
brutality of Black people, but President Trump, instead of standing with the
oppressed Black people, taunted Colin on Twitter for disrespecting the national
flag. Trump's lack of remorse for Colin's course says a whale lot about his
endorsement of racism.
During a speech, in 2017, at Community College in Long Island, In New York, Donald Trump, was heard endorsing police brutality of Black people
and other colored people.
In an audience that was made up of police officers who have
faced serious cases of racial profiling, Donald Trump encouraged them to be
more brutal with suspects. His words were: “When you see these thugs being
thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You just see them thrown in, rough. I
said, ‘Please, don’t be too nice,'” Trump told the crowd to a smattering of
applause. “Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting
their head…like don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody. I said,
‘You can take the hand away, okay?'”
Every day, we are forced to watch gruesome video recordings
of white policemen and women, harassing, shooting, beating, and strangling
Black men, women, boys, and girls. We have seen a white policeman shoot an unarmed
pregnant woman to death. And all of these did not get any reaction from the
president of a country.
This and many more scenarios can be brought forward in defense
of the sentiments of Donald Trump being racist and enabling brutality of Black
people.
With racial attacks on Black people, Latinos, and other
immigrants, increasing to well over 200%, it is safe to be fearful for the
future of America, since it is most likely that his supporters have become
bolder and more in number, and would most definitely vote him back into the office,
in 2020.
It is safe to conclude that Black people in America are now
more of an endangered species, and with Donald Trump's body language, the next
four years would be more disastrous for them.