The recent attack on two good samaritans in Portland, Oregon is probably the most horrific example of a hate crime in this country since the KKK lynched African-Americans.
From The Guardian posted 30 May, 2017:
“Jeremy Christian, an avowed white supremacist with a violent past, is the alleged killer of Rick Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, but Donald Trump is not blameless for their deaths. The murder of these two heroic men and the near death of a third, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, happened last Friday in Portland, Oregon, when, according to numerous reports, Christian boarded an afternoon commuter train and began hurling anti-Muslim insults at two teenage girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab.
But if Christian’s act is a nightmare, Trump’s presidency is the daymare, a horror show made all the worse as it’s experienced while being wide awake. Under increasing pressure to issue a condemnation of the act, Trump finally tweeted a message concerning this heinous crime. ‘The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable,’ the tweet read. ‘The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them.’
This may sound presidential, until you look into it a bit. First, we can note that the tweet came not from Trump’s personal account, where we have (unfortunately) become accustomed to hearing the (unfortunate) thoughts of Mr Trump, but from @POTUS, which is chiefly run by his staff.
Incidentally, it’s easy to tell the difference between @POTUS and @realDonaldTrump by the former’s lack of spelling errors, cheap insults and exclamation points!
Understanding that this message of condemnation was tweeted from @POTUS and not @realDonaldTrump is crucial because Trump’s far-right followers will see an @POTUS tweet more as an exhibition of the exigencies of presidential performance than as an expression of Trump’s principles. They won’t be wrong.
Second, the tweet makes no mention of the anti-Muslim cause of this near triple murder in the country Trump now presides over. This absence is far from surprising. Trump has almost never acknowledged even the existence of American Muslims.
The other girl was an African-American.
Racial intolerance in this country, I believe, has never been more rampant, and these hate-mongers are being embolden by the man in the White House. The Southern Poverty Law Center says a burst of hate incidents and crimes reported in the days following Donald Trump’s election in November has eased, but hate activity remains above pre-election levels.
Why? Because during his campaign, he never made any effort to distance himself. Remember the lie he told when he said he never knew David Duke or anything about him. Give me a break!
Here’s another sad example of someone’s malicious rant at an airport when someone was simply talking in Spanish to his grandmother in Puerto Rico.
In the oft-used words in Trump’s tweets; sad, bad, sick.