Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
"MOVE ON!" TOWARD PROSPERITY
MOVE ON TOWARD PROSPERITY
"Bigotry unleashed by Trump?" Reads a headline that I saw in passing. Is it really true? "Bigotry"
I was surprised to learn is not the same as racism that we know well.
"Bigotry" means "intolerance towards those who hold different opinions than oneself." Surprising!
Trump as a businessman had no constituency. He was accountable to no one. The Republicans who rush in to claim him now and to chain him now (that he has won) had bitterly opposed him before!
Trump has no constituency. His interests are global, world-wide. Customers and partners are his preferred people, not dogma, doctrine, program agendas, nor party platforms. Money he makes. Money he loves. Money he plainly manifests. To him, the Executive Mansion --the White House--is a ghetto, is a slum dwellers' dump, in comparison to his several opulent residences in New York, Florida, and elsewhere around the world.
I did not vote for Donald Trump. I too was repulsed by his scandals. Yet, I am sensible to opportunity .
If you are wise, you will be sensible too! If he has not read the U. S. Constitution, few have! Fewer still respect, apply, or follow it, or its post-Civil War Amendments to us!
Trump did not "unleash" bigotry he benefited from it. He capitalized on it. He rode its restless, white-hot embers of dissatisfaction into electoral victory. He bashed foreign trade deals like NAFTA, illegal immigration, huge domestic job losses, Muslim extremists' terrorism, but not black racial matters, most typical fodder, on in!
Trump is not a racist. He may be a bigot. We have got tens of millions of bigots in both political parties, who will forever exist, as they have ever existed, in the United States.
If he is a racist, as some claim, why do his, pictured, admirers include people like Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and many other black leaders, stars, or celebrities?
Profit with, from, Donald Trump, the most powerful man on earth!
"Let's Move!" Toward prosperity! "What have we got to lose?" Ha!