Trump could be just the lukewarm wind necessary to stir up the fire. Some say that is what racism is like in the United States, an immortal breeze that enlivens the flame of hatred.
Journalist John N. Mitchell, who is a distinguished voice in the Philadelphia community, wrote about recent events. For him the incidents of recent weeks say less about President Donald Trump and more, “sadly,” about the United States.
Recently, John N. Mitchell wrote for the Philadelphia Tribune an article titled: “Racist voters are the biggest problem, not Trump”. He emphasizes that the misfortune of hatred that hunts again the nation is not necessarily related to a single man, but represents the spirit of a group that has influence on the power takeover and that uses racism as an instrument of control.
A vote that speaks for itself
According to John N. Mitchell, who is an expert journalist on the use of the Chicago Manual of Style and the Associated Press Style Book, in 2016 nearly 63 million voters proved that their racism was not revolting enough to prevent them from voting for Donald Trump
With that victory, the New York tycoon, an expert in realty shows, is now willing to bet again that it will not be more objectionable, “which says more about America than it does about the president.”
During the first days of August at least one hate crime shook the nation: El Paso, Texas, mass shooting where 22 people lost their lives, and over two dozen were severely wounded. Its author, Patrick Crusius, according to a police document released by the national press said in confession that he “was targeting Mexicans.”
President Trump’s visit to Dayton, Ohio, where a man killed 9 people including his sister, and his hermetic visit to El Paso to express his grievances to the survivors and relatives of the victims were “weak”.
Get used to this
This seems to justify the way John N. Mitchell interprets it, by saying “get used to this”.
According to the Philadelphia journalist, “there are sixteen months before the 2020 general election, and Trump is going to spend each and every one of them mixing in the sort of racial animus that has become his campaign comfort zone. The seasons are going to change multiple times between now and the election, and Trump is going to continue to utter similarly repugnant rhetoric because it is ok to millions of Americans.”
“So let’s place the blame where it belongs, which is not exclusively at Trump’s feet. It has been 400 years since the first enslaved people were dragged here from Africa and the country has rebooted itself through foreign and domestic wars. Yet there are so many American bigots in circulation that a president can run on racism unabashedly decades after the Civil Rights Movement accomplishments and win”
Translated by: José Espinoza
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