Reverend Dr. Robert Turner, the pastor of a historic church that was burned in the Tulsa Massacre nearly a century ago, expressed “disgust” at the Trump campaign’s decision to hold a rally to reelect a man who he said has “sympathized with neo-Confederates” on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery.
Folks, you only think you’re disgusted now. Check this shit out—Yamiche Alcindor just tweeted this:
President Trump’s planned convention speech in Jacksonville, Florida, on Aug. 27 falls on the city’s 60th anniversary of a brutal KKK-orchestrated attack on black activists known as “Ax Handle Saturday.”
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1271403162063208449
I’m just speechless, astonished. This man is sick.
Who knew that the KKK made calendars to sell that had all of their finest moments marked? I’d love to get a peek at their shipping log.
I think we’re about three years overdue for a serious, widespread, and consequential national discussion about what you do with a president who’s mentally ill. They can’t deny this. Nobody can fail to see what this is.
Soo, we are to think Trump is “celebrating” Juneteenth at his first rally in Tulsa, site of biggest USA Race Massacre and then “celebrating” 60th Anniversary of “Ax Handle Saturday” is about racial conciliation.?
And not huge historical displays of dominant white supremacy by the KKK?
He wants to remind the nation of dominant force by KKK and they are all excited for the celebration.
This has Miller’s fingerprints all over it. They think they’re being subtle, but if one is reasonably educated and aware, they are being blatant. We’re beyond the dog whistle days.
Don't worry about those Confederate statues being torn down. They're getting what they always wanted: out of America.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) June 11, 2020
It’s Miller’s idea, I’m sure, and it has his nyah-nyah immature style to it. He likes to make liberals angry, and thinks it’s funny. But the madman rage is pure Trump. He took those demonstrations personally and as always he’s lashing out as hatefully as he can.
Agreed. Once Miller suggests what should be ludicrous ideas to any rational person, Trump hops on the crazy train as it he knows it will sell to the base.
The Tulsa Juneteenth rally and the “Ax Handle Saturday” acceptance of the nomination are completely insane in any normal sense. Perfectly OK to the Orange One.
This isn’t racist dog whistle territory any longer.
Trump is throwing a Molotov cocktail at race relations and may ignite an inferno.
He knows exactly what he’s doing. Stephen Miller told him this is the way he can own the Libs and excite his base.
GOP racists are impressive.
Reagan opened his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of murders of civil rights workers in 1963.
Republicans in office: Seen and ignored.
Republican voters: Hoax! We don’t see anything!
So he said this in an interview with a Fox journalist, Harris Faulkner, who is an African Am. woman. He questions the end result of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery?
For those who are unfamiliar with the Tulsa massacre, you may want to point out that white people were doing the killing and looting, not the residents.
It sure isn’t. A dog whistle isn’t meant to be understood by everyone. This is. It’s meant to be deniably obvious. Only trouble there is you can’t actually deny a thing if you make it obvious.
He wants blacks rioting. Maybe he even thinks he’ll finally get his race war and he’ll be the king of America because of it. I have no idea what he’s thinking. This is literally insane.
Very true.
But they can—and will—refuse to admit what they see.
As you know only too well, the entire raison d’etre for the GOP is the acquisition of power, and the use of that power to acquire more power and so on and so on, ad infinitum ad nauseam.
An admission of the facts by the Republicans would doom them electorally for at least a generation. That’s a fate worse than death to them.
Unintended consequences - educational moments of white on black terrorism.
Maybe 300 blacks were murdered in this white race riot.
