Thread by @jeremycgarland

Is this your leader?

At a time when protests are breaking out all over the world to demand we end racism and dismantle the deeply ingrained systems that support it...

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1270832316605227011

he chooses to hold his big return rally on Juneteenth, when some of the last enslaved people learned that they were declared "free" by the U.S. government...

history.com/news/what-is-j…

in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where in 1921, a white mob burned down Black Wall Street in what's known as the Tulsa Race Massacre...

tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-t…

the man who took out a full-page ad calling for the execution of the Exonerated 5 and still refuses to admit he was wrong...

reuters.com/article/us-tel…

the man who said these things about NFL players kneeling in protest:

"Get that son of a bitch off the field right now..."

"...maybe you shouldn't be in the country."

"That's a total disrespect of our heritage."

bbc.com/news/world-us-…

the same man who asked why more people from “shithole countries” like Africa should be allowed into the U.S.

apnews.com/fdda2ff0b87741…'

and said there were "very fine people on both sides" when one of those sides was a white supremacist march where they carried torches and chanted "Jews will not replace us"

politifact.com/article/2019/a…

the very same man who called for violence against #BlackLivesMatter protesters:

time.com/5844990/trump-…

required it for a photo op:

vox.com/policy-and-pol…

and witnessed regular brutality against peaceful protesters, proving why they are there:

https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1270879741709553667?s=20

That guy?

Choosing to hold his rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth is intentionally divisive. It is wrong. It is proof.

He is who he says he is. Always has been.

You can't pretend you don't see it. You can't dismiss it. You have decide which side you're on now.

Is this your leader?

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* "have to decide"

Aaahh...I hate typos!