published 11-1-2017

By J. Noel Espinoza/RioGrandeInfo

COMMENTARY

Let’s cut to the chase, the Trump administration follows a racist agenda that tries to hide subtlety with double talk and innuendos.

Frontline has a great documentary about Trump’s Germanic ancestors and the belief that they are superior because of their DNA. Trump has also faced lawsuits from the federal government for denying equal housing opportunities in his properties to blacks and Hispanics.

But, we don’t have to go too far to see how Trump continues to treat with disdain minorities even when families put their sons and daughters on the line of duty by joining the armed forces.

Instead of apologizing or rectifying a misinterpretation, Trump attacked viciously the black family of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four soldiers killed in Niger. Trump has also taken a childish opposition to American football players who kneel as a form of protest to police brutality, a stand that emboldens his right-wing, neo-Nazi, and nationalist base.

Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly spoke on Monday about how the Civil War was caused by a “lack of ability to compromise.”

Kelly, who also lied about Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, also a black woman and one of two people who overheard a call between the president and the soldier’s widow, claimed Wilson bragged about securing federal funding for a new FBI building in Miramar in 2005.

Wilson said Trump told the soldier’s widow that her husband “knew what he was signing for.”

Kelly wanting to compromise with slave-owners actually tells us all we need to know about Kelly’s moral agenda.

It’s the same racist agenda when Trump says, “I think there is blame on both sides,” for the Charlottesville violence where neo-Nazis and nationalists faced protesters against that reactionary ideology.