In an interview with VICE News U.S. senator Tim Scott, (R-S.C.) condemned the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville and questioned the president’s moral authority following the violent events of that sad day.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Cory Booker calls Trump 'alt-right-apologist-in-chief'
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (NJ) took to Twitter to denounce Trump's second press conference where Trump again went with that "There wrong on both sides" garbage. Booker went as far as calling Trump the 'alt-right-apologist-in-chief'. Read more below:
Once again Trump leaves me outraged & disgusted. He betrays the office & the people he has sworn to serve. #SickAndTiredOfBeingSickAndTired
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 16, 2017
Disgracefully, today Trump was not the Commander-in-Chief but the Alt-Right-Apologist-in-chief.
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 16, 2017
Trump showed himself to be more of an ally of the Alt-right/white supremacists than our country and our most cherished common values.
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 16, 2017
There is no question who he is. The critical moral question is: who are we? We can not surrender America to Trump. We must fight.
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 16, 2017
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
We are in sad times when the U.S. President is defending white nationalist
By George L. Cook III African American Reports.
I keep expecting to wake up from this dream in a cold sweat and realize this is not real. Sadly that will not happen.
Many of us, my self-included didn't expect much from Donald Trump and expected him to be one of the worst presidents ever. What we did not expect was the President of the United States to be openly associated with and defending the actions of Nazi's and white supremacist.
We know live in an America where the President of the United States took more than 48 hours to condemn racial hatred. During his first press conference, he blamed "both" sides. He gave some lame excuse about waiting to get the facts at another failed press conference. The facts of what happened in Charlottesville have nothing to do with condemning white nationalist and white supremacist groups. "45" should have IMMEDIATELY said that racism and hate groups are wrong and that they will not be tolerated or accepted in the United States. He should have stated that he wants nothing to do with them and that he doesn't want their support. He didn't need the facts to do that.
But instead he keeps talking about wrong on both sides even though the action of the alt-right led to the death of Heather Heyer, not the actions of any counter protesters. He ignores the fact no one including two Virginia State Troopers would have died had the racist groups not come to Charlottesville Virginia to supposedly protest the removal of a General Lee monument.
This president seems to think that protesting hate and evil makes the counter protesters as bad as the white supremacist. How dare they say no to hate.
Not only that he thinks some of the alt-right/white nationalist are "fine people." I guess they are great examples of humanity when they are not hating African Americans, Hispanics, LGBTQ people, Muslims, Jews, or threatening to harm others that they feel superior to.
This is a president who at the time of this writing has not reached out to the mother of Heather Heyer, who died protesting hate, but he has taken the time to hold a second press conference to appease David Duke. A move which Duke appreciated:
Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa https://t.co/tTESdV4LP0
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) August 15, 2017
This is the same POTUS that took two days to respond to what white hate groups did in Charlottesville that caused three deaths but took 51 minutes to attack a black man, Kenneth Frazier when that black man and CEO of Merck resigned from Trump's American Manufacturing Council to protest Trump's indifference to hate groups.
It's time for everyone to face the fact which many of us already have, Trump is not the President of the United States but the President to that 38 % that make up his political base. He doesn't give a damn about the rest of us.
Sadly, this is not a dream, it's a nightmare.
George L. Cook III African American Reports.
On Twitter, Trump accuses blacks of racism three times as often as whites
In his eight years on Twitter, Trump has been far more likely to accuse African Americans of racism than white people.
During a White House speech on Monday President Donald Trump denounced racism as "evil" after facing two days of bipartisan criticism for declining to specifically condemn Nazis and white supremacists following a violent rally Charlottesville, Virginia.
After a non-specific response on Saturday decrying the violence exhibited on "many sides," on Monday he addressed the problem head on: "Racism is evil," he said, "and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to all that we hold dear as Americans."
Trump's initial hesitancy to call out white racism did not go unnoticed, and it has similarities with a longstanding trend on Trump's twitter account: In his eight years on Twitter, Trump has been far more likely to accuse African Americans of racism than white people.
Trump has used the word "racist" or "racism" at least 56 times on Twitter, according to the Trump Twitter Archive, a website that tracks and archives all the President's tweets. In two-thirds of those Tweets, Trump levied accusations of racism at individuals or groups of people. And those accusations followed a very clear pattern: Trump has directed accusations of racism toward black people three times as often as he's done so against whites.
Read more: On Twitter, Trump accuses blacks of racism three times as often as whites
Monday, August 14, 2017
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigns from Trump council to protest Trump's Charlottesville comments
— Merck (@Merck) August 14, 2017
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