Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” to America. Trump blamed “many sides” and “both sides” for the violence and death perpetrated by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va. People from Haiti “all have AIDS,” he has said, and immigrants from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America. He referred to Haiti and African countries with an expletive, and suggested that several black and brown congresswomen should “go back” to their countries, whose governments are a “complete and total catastrophe.”
More than 20 innocent people are slaughtered and many more injured in El Paso, which Trump has labeled the southern border’s epicenter for immigrant violence and danger. The alleged shooter has been linked to a manifesto, published minutes before the attack, filled with white nationalist and racist hatred toward immigrants and Hispanics. It doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots. Shame on Trump and the systems of oppression that spawned him. Shame on elected officials who pander to Trump and kowtow to the National Rifle Association while innocents die. Shame on Americans who do not decry Trump’s hateful speech and actions. And shame on us all if this man is not voted out of office in 2020.
Fran Schofield
Brewster
Note from KBJ: Either Fran Schofield is lying or she gets her "facts" from CNN.
