Miriam, can you give me the name or link to that group? I would like to know
more about their platform.
Thanks
Frank
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<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Miriam Vieni
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2019 12:21 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The White House, home of the Great White Father
I don't think that the majority of American Jews are supporting Trump. The
statistics don't bear that out. In fact, there are Jewish groups that have been
protesting his policies. One of them, If Not Now, has been in the news because
of their protests against his concentration camps for immigrants.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Frank Ventura
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2019 8:56 AM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The White House, home of the Great White Father
Miriam, I wonder how many American Jews realize that they are supporting the
same rise of fascism now with Trump that they supposedly deplore?
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Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 9:22 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: The White House, home of the Great White Father
I'm reading a novel called, The German Girl, which Is about a Jewish family who
leaves Germany during the Nazi era. There's a snippet of a Hitler speech quoted
in that novel, which could have come straight out of Trump's mouth. Only
substitute Mexicans or immigrants for the word, Jews, and it's Trump talking.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] The White House, home of the Great White Father
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
President Donald Trump has given new meaning to the “White House.”
From his perch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he hurls racist epithets via tweet
while commanding armed agents to terrorize immigrants at the border and in
communities from coast to coast.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi summed it up well, commenting last week about
Trump’s attempts to insert a citizenship question into the U.S.
Census even after
he was rebuffed by the Supreme Court. She accused Trump of trying to “Make
America White Again.”
It is well known that Trump is a voracious consumer of Fox News. On Sunday
morning, just 20 minutes after “Fox & Friends” ran a piece attacking
Congressmembers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and
Rashida Tlaib, Trump tweeted:
“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally
came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe …
loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States … how our
government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken
and crime infested places from which they came.”
Go back to where you came from? Three of the women he attacked were born in the
United States: Ocasio-Cortez, born in the Bronx, is the youngest woman ever to
serve in Congress; Pressley, born in Cincinnati, is the first African-American
congresswoman to represent Massachusetts. Tlaib, born in Detroit, is
Palestinian-American. She and Ilhan Omar are the first Muslim women ever
elected to Congress.
Omar is also the first congresswoman to wear a hijab. Born in Somalia, she came
to the U.S. as a political refugee when she was a child. As one viral video
pointed out, Omar has been a U.S. citizen longer than Trump’s third wife, first
lady Melania Trump, a native of Slovenia.
Trump’s racist tweets united a fractured Democratic Party, quickly mobilizing
support for the four freshmen congresswomen, now referred to collectively as
“The Squad.”
By Tuesday, a resolution, House Res. 489, “Condemning President Trump’s racist
comments directed at Members of Congress,” was being debated on the House
floor. Republicans temporarily derailed the debate by invoking an obscure line
contained in the congressional rules that states, “References to racial or
other discrimination on the part of the President are not in order.” The
original rule book banning use of the word “racist” was written by Thomas
Jefferson, himself a slave owner, but any irony in that was apparently lost on
the Republicans. The resolution ultimately passed, with four Republicans voting
with the Democratic majority. While it was the first formal House rebuke of a
sitting president in over 100 years, a more serious motion to censure Trump was
blocked by Pelosi.
Trump doubled down on his verbal assaults on the four congresswomen, accusing
them of being socialists or communists. Trump’s use of McCarthy-era attacks
should surprise no one, as his early mentor was Roy Cohn, who served as Sen.
Joseph McCarthy’s lead attorney when destroying thousands of lives through
red-baiting during the 1950s.
Trump went to North Carolina on Wednesday to hold a campaign rally.
Once again, he went after his favorite targets: women and people of color,
telegraphing what will likely be a strategy of using racist rhetoric to inflame
his white base. In the midst of his long tirade directed against Ilhan Omar,
the crowd began chanting, “Send her back! Send her back!”
In his book “The Black History of the White House,” American University
professor Clarence Lusane chronicles the history of the presidential mansion,
from the slaves forced to build it to the first African American presidential
family, the Obamas.
Lusane writes: “For many African Americans, the ‘white’ of the White House has
meant more than just the building’s color; it has symbolized the hue and source
of dehumanizing cruelty, domination and exclusion that has defined the long
narrative of whites’ relations to people of color in the United States.”
On Monday, the four congresswomen who so clearly threaten Trump held a news
conference, denouncing his racism toward them and people of color overall,
pointing to his policies on migrant detention, family separation and the
threatened ICE raids. Refusing to mention Trump by name, Ayanna Pressley made
clear whose country this is:
“Despite the occupant of the White House’s attempts to marginalize us and to
silence us, know that we are more than four people. We ran on a mandate to
advocate for and to represent those ignored, left out and left behind.
Our squad is big. Our squad includes any person committed to building a more
equitable and just world. That is the work that we want to get back to. Given
the size of this squad and this great nation, we cannot, we will not, be
silenced.”
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