Trump’s Kenosha Visit Exposes His Racism

President Donald Trump visited Kenosha, against the advice of the governor of Wisconsin and most of the leaders of Kenosha. These political and religious leaders realized that empathy and goodwill aren’t in his skill set, and that his presence would only serve to inflame passions.

Trump used the backdrop of businesses destroyed by rioters to speak on his campaign theme of law and order. Needless to say, he didn’t visit Jacob Blake who is fighting for his life in the hospital to speak out on the black lives that have been destroyed by police brutality.

At a roundtable event on law enforcement and public safety, Trump took questions from reporters and ignored questions about racial inequality and harped on law and order.

There were only two African Americans seated at the roundtable, they were James and Sharon Ward, who said they were pastors for Julia Jackson, the mother of Jacob Blake.

When a reporter asked the Wards if they believed that police violence was a systemic issue, Trump interjected, “I don’t believe that. I think the police do a terrific job and I think they do have some bad apples.”

Trump prefers subservient blacks who don’t speak and only listen while he rambles incoherently, but he can’t drag Tim Scott and his big ass smile with him every time he holds a press conference.

When the racist-in-chief was specifically asked whether he thinks systemic racism is a problem in the United States, he once again turned back the conversation to law and order answering, “Well, you know you just keep getting back to the opposite subject. We should talk about the kind of violence we’ve seen in Portland and here and other places.”

Trump doesn’t care about addressing the racial tensions that are tearing our country apart, and he ignores the millions who protest against police brutality in a peaceful way, and zeroes in on the few who use these demonstrations as an excuse to riot, and commit acts of violence.

Trump is a racist, plain and simple, and he only cares about harping on the issues like law and order that resonate with his racist base. He will never change, and his Kenosha visit only reminds us that we need to make real change by electing Joe Biden the President of the United States.

Outrage: Jacob Blake Handcuffed to his Hospital Bed

“The father of Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old Black man shot seven times by a Kenosha, Wis., police officer, told the Chicago Sun-Times that his son is handcuffed to his hospital bed.

‘I hate it that he was laying in that bed with the handcuff onto the bed,’ Blake’s father said Thursday, the day after he visited his son in the hospital. ‘He can’t go anywhere. Why do you have him cuffed to the bed?’”

The Hill

The arrest of black men often goes sideways because law enforcement officials don’t see them as citizens who are innocent until proven guilty but as wild animals who need to be subdued by any means necessary.

In August 23, 2020 Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old African American was shot by police in the back seven times at point blank range as he was attempting to get into his car. The cops didn’t consider other less lethal means of subduing him, nor did they seem to care that his three children between the ages of three and eight were in the back seat. They didn’t perceive Blake as a human being, let alone as a father, only as a thug who needed to be put down. Does a trophy hunter care that lion cubs are frolicking with their father when he kills the lion?

The incident occurred in Kenosha, Wisconsin, but it could have occurred in any city, for we have seen the murder of black men by police take place in Ferguson, Minneapolis, New York City, Oakland, and just about every town and city in our country.

Blake is paralyzed in critical condition fighting for his life in a hospital, and his dehumanization continues, evidenced by the fact that he is handcuffed to his hospital bed.

After visiting his son in the hospital, Blake’s father said: He can’t go anywhere. Why do you have him cuffed to the bed? A rhetorical question, as every black man in America knows that the criminal justice system doesn’t miss any opportunity to humiliate and dehumanize black men.

“Why is Blake cuffed to his bed”, is only one of dozens of questions that this horrible incident brings to mind? Why did the cop shoot a black suspect seven times in the back? Why do these executions of black suspects occur with horrible regularity? Why do almost all of these killer cops escape justice with only a slap on the wrist? Why hasn’t the government taken concrete steps to stop this epidemic of executions of people of color?

Why? Why? Dear God, Why?