A Racist Administration
The new administration is such a virulent source of gaslighting that one can hardly keep track of its many perambulations.
A Nazi salute that isn’t a Nazi salute.
The price of eggs that was going down on the first day on the job are the same price.
Social media is freer now that the same people control all of the social media companies.
Another egregious examples of gaslighting is the continued rhetoric that ridding America of DEI isn’t racism.
Racism is exactly what it is. Look at the attempted removal of The Tuskegee Airman from the teaching curriculum at the Air Force Academy.
While this removal has been temporarily reversed, the fact that it was discussed at all is disturbing, but not surprising.
There are many of the president’s supporters who maintain he isn’t racist.
They are saying this as masked White Supremacists travel to Washington and march around the city because one of their own is in power.
The president is virulently racist.
So is Stephen Miller, the president’s Deputy Chief of Staff and United States Homeland Advisor.
Miller is the chief architect of the anti-DEI actions of the administration.
The president is racist.
It doesn’t matter how much the president’s supposedly Christian supporters argue the contrary.
It doesn’t matter how many subservient Black people the administration trots out at campaign stops and inauguration events.
The president is racist, and his administration is thoroughly, ridiculously racist.
He is not the first racist president.
We’ve had our share.
Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan are just a few examples of racist presidents.
But this president is striving to set a new low in racist presidencies.
The president’s racism was on display long before he entered politics.
He and his father were sued by the Department of Justice for discriminatory rental practices against Blacks.
He took out a full-page ad in all of New York’s major newspapers during the Central Park Jogger rape case calling for the death penalty for the accused young Black and Brown men who were accused and eventually cleared of the crime.
He was quoted as saying that Blacks were lazy. When asked about the quote, his response was that it was “probably true” that he made the comment.
During the time his show The Apprentice was on the air, he told Howard Stern that the next season would feature blonde, White women versus a team of Blacks. NBC refused to allow that, but when that season aired, and a Black man won the competition, he asked the Black male winner to share the win with the runner-up, who was a blond, White woman.
We know the many racist incidents during his first administration.
There were “good people on both sides” at the Charlottesville rally.
The “s—thole countries” comment directed at Haiti and African countries.
He said all Haitian immigrants have AIDS and Nigerian visitors to America would never “go back to their huts.”
His vicious attacks on Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the National Anthem.
And he is an equal-opportunity racist, making comments and taking racist actions against about Asians, Arabs, Jews, and Native Americans.
Racism is multilayered and multifaceted.
It exists out in the open.
It exists in secret.
It is systematic.
It is symptomatic.
It is loud.
It is quiet.
This racist administration is combined with fascism, meaning that the normal governmental checks and balances will not be accessible.
It won’t be easy, but we must resist.
Resist constantly and loudly.
Resist openly and consistently.
The racist far-right is attempting to grow in power and prestige across the globe.
They are depending on the president and his administration to spark a worldwide movement of White Supremacy.
All of us must examine ourselves and determine what individual actions we will take to prevent this calamity.