Trump and his adminions want you to be afraid and resentful of black and brown people. How's that working out?
___Americans should either be fed up by now with the ways Trump and his administration minions have adopted and used his anti-immigrant lies to rob and hurt ALL Americans; or they are or would, in the WH's best hopes and dreams, be so resentful that a popular movement against the migrants, blacks, women, LGBTQ, even Catholics who inhabit this nation would rise up to embrace their freakish clan's drive to divide Americans among ourselves like something out of the late 1800's; complicit with their with denials of the horrors of slavery; in lockstep with their evisceration of all of the federal and legal protections so tenuously afforded to a people so thoroughly repressed by the very government and society which their labor and contributions have enabled into power and authority over them; all that acquiescence capped off by a Supreme Court which just weeks ago gave permission to irregular, militarized federal immigration agents to claim the color of someone's skin, where they work, or the way they speak is enough probable cause required to bring the full force of this unaccountable police force down on a subset of our population who should otherwise enjoy the presumption of innocence that is inherent in our Constitution and incumbent on our own sense of morality.
Are folks out there good that the very first justification the White House and republican leaders in the Congress they control offered up for their shutdown was a dumbfounding, but in their fashion, lie about how Democratic leaders had instead shut down government because they wanted 'health care for immigrants' in some fictional budget proposal?
I get that there hasn't been even a modicum of attention or outcry from the media or practically anyone but the hapless Americans and others in the sights of this administration to the way Trump's ignorant and backward slander about minorities in government and workplaces in America using the moniker of 'DEI" as shorthand for something his administration and Justice Dept. has put forward as actual legal justification for declaring 'emergency' powers in several Executive Orders; as well as justification in court for firings of federal workers, sometimes en masse, which would otherwise be illegal.
Now we're seeing a classic military tactic used to infiltrate, destabilize, and perpetuate military action in foreign countries being employed in our nation's cities, as irregular, militarized units of ICE agents are deliberately destabilizing communities with mass arrests which round up both Americans and immigrants together in majority migrant communities without regard for any of the warrants or reasonable suspicion of a crime that white Americans demand and most often are advantaged with in encounters with law enforcement.
After the destabilizing forces have drawn enough visible resistance from an outraged citizenry, the pretext is established to protect those militarized federal agents with regular soldiers so they can perpetually lord their militarization over communities indefinitely claiming it's about their own protection - not the citizens, but the very military forces that are oppressing American communities.
Acquiescing to criminalization of immigration violations is what enabled this govt to threaten all Americans' liberties.
It's what's enabled the republicans into office who voted in billions of funding for the mostly unaccountable militarized federal force whose defense against threats from a citizens protesting them is being used as pretext to deploy armed troops with repressive control over ALL the inhabitants of states; not just the invented criminals the president claims he's protecting citizens from. No oppressive criminalization of immigration violations, no need for a militarized regime that requires the force of the military to enable its tyranny over the people in this country.
Likewise, if Americans begin to demand that the federal government reverse their war on diversity; recognize the value of Americans who have not only been traditionally locked out of opportunity and denied justice, but are RIGHT NOW in a state of repression by the government on a scale not seen in this nation since the long, withering tyranny for black and brown people in this country after Reconstruction; after the passage of 'Jim Crow' laws that enforced segregation based on race and imposed measures aimed at keeping black Americans from voting; often enforced by local KKK who would terrorize communities and individuals with the full compliance of the police and courts.
Americans need to recognize and acknowledge just how much our civil society has been set back by Trump and his republicans - to the point where demagogues who have long advantaged their narrow interests by denigrating or attacking others, have now set their divisive sights far beyond the black and brown people they've become accustomed to discriminating against with impunity.
The more tepid the defense has been from the majority of Americans against Trump and his adminions using these open assaults on diversity, against minorities and traditionally marginalized groups and individuals in the U.S. as justification for their often illegal overreach, the more emboldened they have been to perpetuate this perverse misrepresentation of so many of our countryfolks' value and worth to the nation; recklessly trashing a diverse public and private workforce that reflects the communities they serve and benefit.
To what end? Are folks tired yet of this revival of government oppression and bondage of people who been scapegoats all throughout the building and expansion of this nation; tired of the denigration of their labor and contributions which have enhanced the quality of every American, often to the exclusion of their own welfare and opportunity in this country?
Or, are folks just waiting to see if their own interests will insulated from attack, or elevated on top of the people their government is knocking down and crushing?
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