MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
I tuned in to President Trump’s event on immigration. Before I knew it, I had tumbled down a rabbit hole of white supremacy.
The president, in need of a change of subject from the treatment of migrant children at the border, brought in “angel” moms and dads on Friday who are “permanently separated from their loved ones” killed by illegal immigrants.
The purpose was to stoke fears that an illegal-immigrant crime wave is swamping the nation. Voluminous evidence shows that illegal immigrants don’t commit crimes in greater proportion than native-born Americans. But the angel parents had been told otherwise.
“You know,” said Mary Ann Mendoza, one of the angel moms on stage with Trump, “if the public would go to illegalaliencrimereport.com and see the magnitude of crimes being committed against your fellow Americans by illegal aliens allowed to stay in this country, you will be sickened.”
I did as she said and looked into the Illegal Alien Crime Report. I was indeed sickened by what I found: white-nationalist claims of “genocide” and a “Holocaust” being perpetrated against white Americans. And now, those promoting such filth are getting mentioned behind a lectern bearing the presidential seal, at an official event hosted by the president himself.
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Dana Milbank opinion piece, Washington Post, last night
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Link to the article by Dana Milbank
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-sends-us-down-a-rabbit-hole-of-white-supremacy/2018/06/25/1ca1cfca-78b8-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.3c0c20a5bfdd
People want to pretend this is not happening.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 06/26/2018 - 11:17am
I don't know what happened with that. I'd excerpted the first four or so paragraphs in what I thought I submitted. Anyway, thanks for providing the link.
by AmericanDreamer on Tue, 06/26/2018 - 11:25am
Good work by Millbank to expose horrible manipulation of families of victims, not just by Trump but also by the "Illegal Alien Crime Report" people. To try to use traumatized victims of crime this way, to try to benefit from tragedy, to teach them to put the blame on a stereotyped group rather than on criminals, is one of the most vile things that the human race does, it's why we have war. This is going quite a few steps beyond profiling, getting closer to genocidal tribal instincts.
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/26/2018 - 4:26pm