In Springfield, Trump and Vance's Campaign of Racist Terror and Panic Is Working

Rolling Stone ^ | Sept. 20, 2024 | Asawin Suebsaeng

[libstripper]

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO - Before Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other prominent conservatives started talking about their city, the volunteers and leadership at St. Vincent de Paul - a Catholic social services nonprofit serving the broader community and Haitian immigrants - never felt the need for the state's Department of Public Safety to visit their welcome center, to brief the staff on emergency and worst-case-scenario protocols.

That all changed earlier this month, according to Casey Rollins, executive director of the Springfield District Council of St. Vincent de Paul. On Thursday, when Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine visited their building, he brought along with him envoys from the public safety department, which is set to return next week to finish discussing the staff's security measures.

According to Rollins, in recent days, she has had to review emergency and evacuation procedures with staffers, particularly the elderly ones. This month, they've started locking the doors during business hours and greeting people when they come in, to make sure they know who they are. They monitor the parking-lot area more diligently than they have before. And now, the local police department tells Rollins to call them whenever she or her fellow volunteers notice something amiss. The detectives have urged her to call immediately, even when Rollins thinks it's probably nothing.

[libstripper]

OMG!!! Just like throwing a Raid bomb into a really vile nest of cockroaches. Indeed, FTA:

"Rollins did, however, mention that - for all the state and national politicians targeting the town's Haitian population - there were two politicians who stood out as substantively assisting and collaborating with her group and their efforts behind the scenes: Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and DeWine."

A DemonRat and a RINO.

[Ann Archy]

WTF IS AN ASAWIN??? Are there NO American writers anymore?

[frank ballenger]

At least Rolling Stone is still around to give us a moderate, balanced and fair example of good journalism. /S

[toddausauras]

If hordes of rapists and murderers swarm your town don’t be racist. Let them do whatever they want.

[Steely Tom]

I’m sure Springfield will be counted as the source of 15 or 20 “Trump Lies.”

[rlmorel]

And the author Asawin Subsuckme knows all of this how?

[hanamizu]

If hordes of rapists and murderers swarm your town don’t be racist. Let them do whatever they want.

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Rotherham, England being the role model.

[oldbill]

A Catholic social services non-profit?

No, an NGO sucking up lots of government grants.

[Yardstick]

Yesterday at the store I noticed Rolling Stone has Taylor Swift on the cover of the current issue. I guess that’s her reward for coming out against Trump.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It was a similar Catholic organization which operated the Ratlines which
smuggled thousands of Nazi war criminals out of post war Europe.

[Drew68]

Asawin Suebsaeng

[Responsibility2nd]

the volunteers and leadership at St. Vincent de Paul - a Catholic social services nonprofit serving the broader community and Haitian immigrants

 

There's plenty of evil in a catholic social services agency.

[OKSooner]

They were commies fifty years ago.

[Gaffer]

Another damned foreigner (Thailand) who came here for an education BUT NEVER WENT HOME. The education is for you to help your own country, not rape and pillage ours.

[BenLurkin]

Thought this was the Bee for a moment.

[Disambiguator]

Rolling Stone ~= Babylon Bee

(In terms of content, but not intent.)

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Catholic Charities AGAIN……..SPIT, I am a Catholic and am completely disgusted with the church AND this commie Pope!!!

[Gene Eric]

ass win Sue banger... lol

[McGruff]

I laughed when I read the headline. TDS exemplified.

about the author:

Asawin “Swin” Suebsaeng is a Senior Political Reporter at Rolling Stone, covering the modern American conservative movement and GOP. Before joining Rolling Stone, he was a White House reporter for The Daily Beast, a politics and culture reporter for Mother Jones, and a reporter at the Bangkok Post in Thailand. Swin is the co-author of the book, “Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington,” and also works as a lecturer at the University of Cincinnati.

[frank ballenger]

Religious people setting up a welcome center for Haitians shows again why organized religion is declining. Will they hold special services for the citizens murdered by the new neighbors soon? Maybe say a few platitudes?

Actually the heathen practices of Voodoo include a number of Catholic practices in their rituals.

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National Geographic, Inside the Voodoo Rituals of Haiti.
“The ceremony begins with a Roman Catholic prayer. Then three drummers begin to play syncopated rhythms. The attendees begin to dance around ...”

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“They mixed West African Voodoo with Roman Catholicism, thus forming an underground type of Voodoo” GotQuestions.org

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Vodou, Serving the Spirits by The Pluralism Project, Harvard University.
Summary: Vodou (meaning “spirit” or “god” in the Fon and Ewe languages of West Africa) is a blending (syncretism) of
African religious traditions and Catholicism. In the United States, Vodou religious ceremonies are often performed in private
group settings where spirits manifest in devotees through possession.
Excerpt:
practitioners are dispersed throughout the United States, with disproportionate numbers in New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Though their exact number is difficult to determine, it has been estimated that there are over 450,000 practitioners in greater New York City alone. For many a Haitian oungan (priest) or manbo (priestess), it is a challenge to transplant and reconstruct the practices
of Vodou in ways meaningful to life in the United States. Quite often, this means that ritual ceremonies that might have taken place in semi-public sanctuaries in Haiti are conducted in crowded homes and basements in order to insure privacy. Some practitioners, however, meet in storefronts, or rent halls in which to perform their ceremonies. Around a specially selected tree in Riverside Park, a priestess might
light a series of multicolored candles to invoke the various lwa. Or Prospect Park in Brooklyn might become the Great Woods—the Gran Bwa—where rituals are performed.
The priests and priestesses of the United States have assumed the responsibility of hosting ceremonies,
teaching young initiates or “godchildren” new to the religion, and conducting individual and private consultations for those in search of healing and spiritual well-being. In the United States, Haitian Vodou is also assuming new forms as non-Haitians, many of them African Americans, begin to discover the lwa.

https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/pluralism/files/vodou-serving_the_spirits_0.pdf