Gilroy. El Paso. Dayton. Here we go again!
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On Saturday, a lone shooter sprayed bullets across an innocent crowd of shoppers inside a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 20 and injuring 26. Then, less than 24 hours later, another shooter opened fire on a crowd of Saturday night revelers in Dayton, Ohio, killing 9 and injuring 26. All of this occurred only days after a horrific shooting scene at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, where 3 were killed.
Interestingly, none of the 3 shooters were Muslim extremists or members of ISIS. None of the shooters were illegal immigrants who crossed the border from Mexico or other points south to exact rage against innocent Americans. No! The shooters were members of America’s dark secret and a group Donald Trump refuses to acknowledge or discuss: disenfranchised white males with guns
Patrick Crusius is the 21-year-old proud Donald Trump supporter and avowed white supremacist responsible for the El Paso killings. He told police he traveled 650 miles from Allen, TX to El Paso to commit mass murder because he hates immigrants and wanted to show the world just how much he is “against race-mixing.” He admitted that he holds racist hatred toward Hispanics and blames immigrants for taking away jobs and for blending cultures in the US. He also added that he supports Trump’s mantra to “send them back” or else face certain “genocide.”
Among the 20 deaths were 6 Mexican nationals.
“Mexico would like to express its utmost, profound condemnation and rejection of this barbaric act,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said over the weekend. He then said he intends to file a lawsuit against the United States to avenge the deaths of the Mexican nationalists.
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The El Paso shooting was followed by another random murder spree. This time the melee occurred in Dayton, Ohio and was conducted by 24-year-old Connor Betts, who donned body armor, bragged about killing scores of people, then randomly took the lives of 9 people, including the accidental killing of his own younger sister.
All of this comes after the murder scene at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, where 19-year-old Santino William Legan killed 3, including 6-year-old Stephen Romero. Legan was a known xenophobe and white supremacist who, on the day of the killings, posted this message on social media:
“Read Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard. Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white tw**s?”
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No border wall — no matter how high or wide — and no amount of immigration camps with separated families and kids inside cages would have saved a single life during these shooting rampages. Why? Because no immigrant or no Muslim or no member of al-Qaeda pulled a single trigger to kill these Americans. These murders were conducted by WHITE men with guns — white AMERICAN men who are not merely domestic terrorists with a mental illness (a label Trump and his cronies have tried to affix in a non-threatening way). No! Let’s call them what they are: WHITE SUPREMACIST MEN WITH GUNS WHO ARE INSTIGATING A RACE WAR FOR THE ‘CLEANSING’ OF AMERICA.
Granted, like anyone who commits mass murder, these white male killers are sick in the head. However, let’s also be 100% honest. They are getting their marching orders from Donald Trump himself, who travels to their communities across the country then riles them up with rhetoric to “Build That Wall” and “Send ‘THEM‘ Back” to protect (white) America from what he claims are rapists and killers who are illegally crossing into our country daily.
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No matter how much he tries to distance himself from the violence, Trump’s words and deeds are indeed responsible and equivalent to yelling “FIRE!” inside a crowded theater, then wondering why there’s mass hysteria when everyone starts running and trampling over each other as a reaction.
If building a wall is the answer to keeping America safe, then tell us, Mr. Trump, where do we build the wall that protects our children from young white men who feed on your hate speech??
“We’ve done actually a lot [about guns] but perhaps more has to be done,” an unusually sheepish and guilty Donald Trump said on Sunday with blood on his own hands.
Despite his frequent innocent act, Donald Trump has blown the lid off of white supremacy and provided them the courage and permission to roam free in order to “Make America Great Again.” Now that he’s opened Pandora’s Box, it will be next to impossible to put a lid back on racism.
Let’s face it, folks, “thoughts and prayers” are no longer enough. America is once again on the verge of a civil war. A race war that will be a fight to the death for the fabric of America. Will America remain a White, Christian nation where blacks and browns and gays know their place? Or will White-America cede power to a rapidly-growing contingency of blacks and browns and become the minority race with limited power?
The fight has already begun. The fanatical and blind “can do no wrong” support of Donald Trump combined with shootings in El Paso, Gilroy, Dayton, and countless other American cities is proof positive and a mere preview of what’s to come. Militia groups in the back woods of Georgia and the mountains of Montana have been training for this day for more than a decade. So, it’s time that we wake up and realize this is not domestic terrorism. This is not a few mentally ill guys with guns who don’t know better. This is not even some Muslims or Mexicans on an American killing spree. This is a white supremacist uprising that is only going to get worse — particularly with Trump regularly poking and prodding that a black or brown boogeyman is coming for us all.
Wake up and smell the coffee, America. We are at war!!
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WATCH: Eddie Glaude Jr and former Gov. Pat McCrory (R-N.C.) debate who is responsibility for dual massacres and rising hate.@esglaude: “We are in a cold civil war. And there are some people who bear the burden of it.” pic.twitter.com/QnovqJlPvv
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) August 4, 2019
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DJ, this is an incredibly difficult post for me to respond to but it is ABSOLUTELY necessary that you wrote it and that WE (your readers) really discuss it! ALL of America (Americans who truly give a d*mn about Us as a nation AND a people) had d*mn well better be having THIS very discussion, because THIS indeed IS an all out Civil War for the Heart and Soul of America. (sidebar-I’m at work but will probably hang out here a good part of the day responding and hoping other readers will join the discussion) I’ll start with this. I do believe America is at a tipping point in our history. We are on the verge of an all out “Race War.” HOWEVER I do NOT believe THIS will be the “Race War” that White Supremacists/White Nationalist and Neo-Nazis in America have longed clamored for. Nope. I believe THIS will… Read more »