stop the fake outrage
report something today that
actually matters
Adapted from the official white house [sic] response to a social media post by the president of the united states.
According to the New York Times article, Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry, by Erica L. Green and Isabella Kwai that reports:
President Trump posted a blatantly racist video clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, then deleted it after an unusually strong outcry from members of his own party.
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement, before the clip was deleted. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
“It’s his same old con,” she added, “doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make people’s lives better.”
Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, said that the video was “just hard-boiled racism using the oldest trope against Black people imaginable.”
Over and over again I here people say this feller in office ‘speaks for me’.
Over and over again I here people say this feller in office ‘fights for me.’
If this is what you want to say and this is the fight you want to be in I can tell you YOU ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE.
If this post, at long last, doesn’t offend you and you don’t find it impossible to defend or excuse, YOU ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE.
And I say that with complete confidence THAT I AM RIGHT on this question.
This cannot be defended.
This cannot be excused.
You better take a look in the mirror and ask your self what you think of this and decide now if hard boiled racism is something that actually matters.
You better take a look in the mirror and ask your self what you think of this and decide now if hard boiled racism is something you are okay with.
I feel sorry for you if you come away from this and your conscience is clear.
And I feel sorry for this country and how willingly folks have followed this path.
I even feel sorry for that feller in office that he thinks this way.
At long last, has he no decency?
Not sure why I would even wonder that.
I am reminded of the movie, Citizen Kane when Charles Foster Kane is caught in scandal during his campaign for Governor.
Kane’s arch enemy, Jim Getty’s tells Kane to drop out of the race or the scandal gets exposed.
Kane will not admit defeat or even that he has a problem.
Getty’s shakes his head and says:
Anybody else, I’d say what’s gonna happen to you would be a lesson to you.
Only you’re gonna need more than one lesson.
… And you’re gonna get more than one lesson.
And I am not thinking of that man in office only.
As Rex Huppke wrote in USA Today … You don’t get to express allegiance to Trump and then casually step aside when something like this happens. You own it. It is what you are supporting.
Anybody else, I’d say what’s gonna happen to you would be a lesson to you.
Only you’re gonna need more than one lesson.
And you’re gonna get more than one lesson.
And don’t think for one second that its me you will have to deal with.
BTW – a check online says Actually can be said with three syllables. The three-syllable pronunciation of “actually” is commonly used in natural, rapid speech, particularly in American English, and sounds like “AK-chuh-lee
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