How does it feel to attend a Trump rally while Black? Just ask the 30 Black students from Valdosta State University, who were booted out of an event Monday evening simply for standing in the bleachers, quiet. Or the young woman from Lousiville, Kentucky, Shiya Nwanguma, who was accosted by Neo-Nazi and white supremacist Trump supporters, as rally attendees looked on in approval or indifference.
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“I was called a n—– and a c–t and got kicked out” Nwanguma, a student at the University of Lousiville, told a local interviewer. “They were pushing and shoving at me, cursing at me, yelling at me, called me every name in the book. They were disgusting and dangerous.”
https://twitter.com/im4DJTrump/status/704644317147746305
As the Republican primary nears what had long been predicted as its inevitable finale — the nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for president — white supremacists north and south, who have long abhorred something called “political correctness”, or any sense of human decency and rational thought, who view Trump’s brand of hate speech as “authentic” and “honest” truth-telling, have become more brazen and pronounced about their hatred for Blacks, non-white people, and foreigners.
I doubt anyone expected him to condemn these hate groups. But to witness his effusion of sheer joy at their endorsement has been nothing short of repulsive.
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/704365453976719360
So indispensable is white supremacy to Trump’s political prominence that he would’ve invented the ideology had it not existed already. Through his inaction (or actions, depending on how one looks at it) he has, in fact, condoned the most ardent of his supporter’s behavior, and by extension, the racist logic behind their antics. The clearest sign of this was his pushback against criticizing KKK leader David Duke. “I don’t know anything about David Duke, okay? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists” he told media outlet CNN.
Black Activist Punched at Donald Trump Rally#BlackLivesMatter #Trump2016 https://t.co/6AOUpTj4V5
— SanenessMatters (@SanenessMatters) November 24, 2015
He’s publicly stated that he’d enjoy nothing better than punching [Black] protesters in the face. He’s stood back as his supporters referred to Black protesters as “monkeys” while kicking them in the chest. But there’s a method behind his madness. Sensing an opening in all the racial tension in this black lives matter moment, he’s effectively deployed white anxiety and fears not as issues to be genuinely addressed, but political bait to be dangled and tossed at the white working class.
Judging by the results of Super Tuesday, this strategy — pandering to the basest and racist instincts of white working class, anxious to get “their freedom and country” back — is doing wonders. And Black attendees at Trump events, curious about the spectacle of white supremacy unfolding in these spaces, are paying the price. Take a look.
https://twitter.com/Mr_G_Gabu/status/668586823543689217
#BlackLivesMatter protesters square off with Louisville, Ky., police after #Trump2016 rally. These thugs were invited to WH instead of cops!
— Ohiobelle (@Ohiobelle) March 1, 2016
#MercutioSouthall, activist beaten at #Trump2016 rally in #Bombmingham.#BlackLivesMatterhttps://t.co/kBgwcRoodp pic.twitter.com/vVKLvWWZS2
— Jason Patterson 📚🎨 (@jason_patterson) November 24, 2015
At the Trump rally today in Beaumont. #casual #NBD #p2 #tcot #trump2016 #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/2m0ecJc365
— Joe Deshotel (@joethepleb) November 14, 2015
At Confederate Flag rally in DC today shouts of #Trump2016 and Shut Down The Borders could be heard http://t.co/pTHhBxb8nL #BlackLivesMatter
— Prof Zenkus (@anthonyzenkus) September 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/CoraStevenss/status/635062495737090048
"White Genocide" sticker spotted in bathroom inside building hosting #Trump rally.. #OscarsSoWhite #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/4h2d5RrSEm
— ProWhitesUnite (@prowhitesunite) January 25, 2016
The #BlackLivesMatter protester who was beaten at a #Trump rally told us what he was thinking https://t.co/lgUMWuNhWe @bi_politics #BLM
— Erin O'Riordan (@ErinORiordan) December 26, 2015
Near the end of this short clip of assault at #Trump rally – "Light the motherf*cker on fire!" #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/xOykC3z3OO
— Carla (@uneikusernaim) December 15, 2015
Donald #Trump supporters yelled #Nazi salutes as a #BlackLivesMatter protester was removed from the rally !https://t.co/CpZa2VVBn5
— Tamer Yazar (@tameryazar) December 15, 2015
#KKK supporters at #Trump rally.Only two in the pic but two is enough. #VoteBlue #Nevadacaucus https://t.co/e4i9Me5o6i via @OccupyDemocrats
— Kate Corry (@the_corry) February 25, 2016
So, how does it feel to attend a Trump rally while Black?
Like we’ve traveled back in time to 1950s Little Rock, AR or 1960s Birmingham, AL. Like being dropped in that old black and white footage teachers would play during Black history month. You know, the ones featuring Whites pouring milkshakes and squirting condiments on the heads of peaceful civil rights demonstrators, holding fort at “White Only” lunch counters.
You know, them “good ole’ Dixie days” when them “negras knew dey place.”
Left to its devices, Trump’s “Make America Great Again” engine seems determined to get his supporters back there.
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