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.
Monday, August 28, 2017
TRUMP IS TRADITIONAL
TRUMP AS MARROW OF TRADITION
"Make America great again" is a thinly-coded dog whistle to make America "white again," by reversing the social policies of our first black President, Barack Hussein Obama.
This is the inescapable deduction from the actions so far pursued by Donald John Trump, whose agenda is resurgent white supremacy and fascism. That many obscure white supremacists and fascists are very wealthy, as is Trump, upsets their usual stereotypes of being from the ranks of impoverished poor whites!
Aside from President Donald Trump 's campaign pronouncements, his appointments of cabinet members, federal judges, ambassadors, and others, as President, support the above racist and fascist thesis of his administration and its advisors.
This plot of Trump evokes that of THE MARROW OF TRADITION a classic novel by Charles Waddell Chestnutt that was published @ 1902 to explain the dynamics of the Wilmington , North Carolina "white riots" of 1898, which had unlawfully ousted by violence, murder , arson, the black-run government, burned black-owned: businesses, homes, schools, churches, of that state's then-largest city. The leaders of that coup d'etat were also wealthy white supremacists, whose "fake" scandalous journalism and lying editorials stoked up the base, who frightened the unsuspecting black leaders and citizenry till it was too late to avert the fiery white of fury!
President Donald Trump embodies that very "marrow of American historical tradition" by idiom and in fact. No! he is not "other" but he is a typical white, racist, fascist, who is easily found in earlier Presidents.