1/ per @Thom_Hartmann-- “Will America Go Forward or Backward?
On the same day Donald Trump announced that on Juneteenth he's going to go to Tulsa-- Oklahoma-- the home of one of America's most brutal and deadly riots where white people burned...-- looted and murdered African…
On the same day Donald Trump announced that on Juneteenth he's going to go to Tulsa-- Oklahoma-- the home of one of America's most brutal and deadly riots where white people burned...-- looted and murdered African…
@Thom_Hartmann 2/ …per @Thom_Hartmann-- "[Tulsa-- Oklahoma-- the home of one of America's most brutal and deadly riots where white people burned looted and murdered African Americans in an iconic-- historic and prosperous black community to give a speech written by Stephen Miller--...
@Thom_Hartmann 3/ ...per @Thom_Hartmann-- Trump [to give a speech written by Stephen Miller-- Trump supporters wearing Klan robes and hoods showed up in Nevada--
@Thom_Hartmann 4/ At the same time the leaders of every branch of our military are reaching out to service members to condemn racism and planning to per @Thom_Hartmann-- remove the names of Confederate traitor generals from their military bases-...
@Thom_Hartmann 5/ ...- ...per @Thom_Hartmann-- Donald Trump tweets his absolute opposition to their move[to remove Confederate traitor generals from their military bases] and his support for this racist symbology--...
@Thom_Hartmann 6/ ......per @Thom_Hartmann-- Donald Trump's openly racist posture represents an increasingly small slice of white America-- although the power of America's white oligarchs remains largely unchallenged and-- in fact-- grows every day as their wealth increases...
@Thom_Hartmann 7/ ......per @Thom_Hartmann-- -- regardless of what happens to the rest of us--
Killing racism is damn hard-- because of the benefits that racism provides to people at the top of the power structures of every institution in America--
Killing racism is damn hard-- because of the benefits that racism provides to people at the top of the power structures of every institution in America--
@Thom_Hartmann 8/ ...per @Thom_Hartmann-- But racial equality-- like gender equality-- must be achieved in this country for us to truly claim ownership of the egalitarian ideals to which we have given lip service since the founding of the republic--...
@Thom_Hartmann 9/ ...
...per @Thom_Hartmann-- America's most well integrated institution-- the military-- is today pushing back on Trump's racism-- Cities across America are rejecting racist policing-- ...
...per @Thom_Hartmann-- America's most well integrated institution-- the military-- is today pushing back on Trump's racism-- Cities across America are rejecting racist policing-- ...
@Thom_Hartmann 10/ ......per @Thom_Hartmann-- And media is finally discussing these issues in the larger context of economic and political power--...
@Thom_Hartmann 11/ ......per @Thom_Hartmann--
America is at a crossroads-- Will we choose the path that Donald Trump-- Steven Miller and the Boogaloo Bois have put before us? Or will we choose to be open-- inclusive-- and a nation where every life is respected?
-Thom
America is at a crossroads-- Will we choose the path that Donald Trump-- Steven Miller and the Boogaloo Bois have put before us? Or will we choose to be open-- inclusive-- and a nation where every life is respected?
-Thom
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