Posted on 01/27/2025 10:41:22 AM PST by 7thson
The below came from a Facebook post from a FB Friend of mine. It was originally posted on FB by a Joe Daiker, who seems to be a extreme hater of President Trump. Since it was originally posted on 19 December 2019, I have no idea what Michael Gerson was crying about. However, it was another rant of President Trump being a racist without a thought of the minorities and women that are on his team and support him.
But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency. Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the killers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was 'stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.'
God help us. It is hard to write the words. This evil — the evil of white supremacy, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and killing her child. When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial. It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving racist tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.
Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to look at resurgent racism as just one in a series of presidential offenses or another in a series of Republican errors. Racism is not just another wrong. The Antietam battlefield is not just another plot of ground. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is not just another bridge. The balcony outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is not just another balcony. As U.S. history hallows some causes, it magnifies some crimes.
What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s divisiveness is getting worse, not better. He makes racist comments, appeals to racist sentiments and inflames racist passions. The rationalization that he is not, deep down in his heart, really a racist is meaningless. Trump’s continued offenses mean that a large portion of his political base is energized by racist tropes and the language of white grievance. And it means — whatever their intent — that those who play down, or excuse, or try to walk past these offenses are enablers. Some political choices are not just stupid or crude. They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion. Such racism indicts Trump. Treating racism as a typical or minor matter indicts us." — Michael Gerson
Bush is open-border globalist scum.
“Racism “?!?! That’s a pant load
This would work except that Trump isn’t a racist. You notice that didn’t work during the campaign either.
An example, please, Gerson? And not something out of context or made up, please!
Exactly! Unlike Donald Trump, nobody had to lie about Joe Biden to prove that Biden was and is racist!
The Bush Crime Family has made a lot of money from their globalist warmongering and the selling out American sovereignty. You are just another one of the open borders, America last goons that all joined around 2000 for the idiotic drunk Bush 2.
Happy Trumpmas, Mikey, you effing loser POS.
Mikey fluffs tranny-loving Colombian presidents.
We aren’t playing the racism game anymore.
We are playing trumps.
https://www.officialgamerules.org/card-games/trumps#google_vignette
These people are pathological. They can’t help themselves.
If we were more like Jesus we would be less racist.
And that means the “Top Ten” the Commandments from God.
In one of those commandments murder is defined as being so angry with someone you want to kill them.
My message to Michael Gerson would be if you want less racism in the world draw closer to God.
Slamming Donald Trump doesn’t accomplish that.
There are no races in America now.
There are only Americans.
Try and play the race card and watch what happens.
No body cares anymore.
Oh. So now Bush cronies are the mother’s milk of societal norms. Correct me if I’m wrong, Commodore, but wasn’t Bush “Hitler” back in the day?
In 2013, Gerson was diagnosed with kidney cancer.[33][34] He also had Parkinson’s disease.[35] He died from kidney cancer at a Washington, D.C. hospital, on November 17, 2022, at age 58.[9][36]
There are no races in America now.
There are only Americans.
Try and play the race card and watch what happens.
No body cares anymore.
“ President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans”
Ok give us details.
I don’t believe it.
Trump is many things, but he’s not a racist.
Just because he wants all Americans treated equally by rolling back the racist DEI, doesn’t make him racist .
I have seen no racism coming from Trump.
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