Shortly after the race-fueled violence in Charlottesville, VA that resulted in the death of 1 and injuries to 19 of others, President Trump was criticized for not specifically blaming white supremacists for the violence.
The attacks were committed during the Unite the Right rally held by several Nazi, KKK, and other white supremacists groups.Trump held a press conference where he made a blanket statement condemning the Charlottesville violence as an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence,” and saying that this type of hate has been occurring “on many sides,” not just from white nationalists.
What is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives.#Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/DB22fgnu6L
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2017
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Trump didn’t specifically name white supremacists groups, prompting lawmakers to pounce on him for not doing so. The media has also chimed in, suggesting that Trump did not condiment white supremacy because some of racist were part of his base of support.
Meanwhile, the media and Democrats alike, forget that the basis of white supremacy is rooted in the Democratic Party.According to the History Channel, the KKK came about to pushback against the Republican Party’s efforts to establish equality for blacks during the Reconstruction Era.
“Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders…” (History Channel)
Here are what some Democrats stated in response to the president’s post Charlottesville terror attack response:
White supremacists fueled #Charlottesville's deadly violence today. Trump whitewashes it w/ false equivalency of hatred 'on many sides'
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) August 12, 2017
"On many sides?" White nationalists, alt-right, neo-Nazis, & KKK must be condemned for racism, anti-Semitism, and hatred. @POTUS will not.
— Rep. Ted Deutch (@RepTedDeutch) August 12, 2017
Rep. Deutch (D) then tweets a quote from the late-President Ronald Reagan, contradicting himself and making Trump’s “many sides” case.
"There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country"
– Ronald Reagan
Plz share w @POTUS https://t.co/FybrwpgAjy— Rep. Ted Deutch (@RepTedDeutch) August 12, 2017
Deutch, Wasserman Schultz, and others, must not have received the memo about how the racist Black Lives Matters movement, as well as other hate-filled black individuals, have in the past committed crimes and called for attacks against white Americans.
Can anyone remember when Micah Xavier Johnson, a black man, shot and killed 5 Dallas police officers because ” he was upset with white people and wanted to kill white people, especially white officers,?”
After the shootings, President Obama attended the memorial service for those slain officers in Dallas, but failed to address the shooter as specifically carrying out his crimes because of race.
“Even those who dislike the phrase “Black Lives Matter,” surely we should be able to hear the pain of Alton Sterling’s family,…With an open heart, we can worry less about which side has been wronged and worry more about joining sides to do right.”
“We know there is evil in this world. That’s why we need police departments…But as Americans we can decide that people like this killer will ultimately fail, they will not drive us apart.”-President Barack Obama (CBS)
Vice President Mike Pence, while on a trip to Cartagena, Colombia, stated,”We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK,”adding “these dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in the American debate and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms.”
Trump is right. There is no place in America for hate that comes from “many sides.”
