July | 2019 | trioenterprises

Many of our greatest leaders have fallen short of promoting the principle that all people are created equal. Positive editorials that connect us are stronger and more powerful than this hate that divides us! Past and present presidents adopt this deep-seated cultural bigoted and manipulative behavior to divide America. I am in full agreement with Professor S. Claude Jr., that “Racism is a Congenital Disease.” https://youtu.be/MtK4jGstc08

Why does Trump hate the things that make America great? He declared the first statement publicly:

“I am the least racist person you have ever met.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/us/politics/trump–twitter-race.html¹. Since October 1973, when Richard Nixon’s Justice Department sued Trump https://www.nytimes.com/206/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html² and his father, Frederick Trump for barring Blacks from their apartment buildings.
The least racist person you have ever met? “Laziness is a trait in Blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control,” he said in a 1997 Playboy interview https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history³.

From Andrew Johnson to FDR, Americans have survived racist presidents before and I’m sure we will survive this divisive leadership, a leader who seems to hate America himself. Not only has Trump complained about several amendments to our Constitution, he has complained about our system of checks and balances and more.

How do we get beyond this hatred and ignorance?

• Stop commemorating confederate traitors.

> NOTE: The birthday of Robert E. Lee on Jan. 19rth, four days after honoring the

birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. R E Lee fought against the United States

for a Confederacy that sought to preserve slavery. MLK was beaten and went

to jail for what was right.

Removing paintings, murals, statues, sculptures, etc. from our schools, streets and governmental properties is taking place in several states. The argument is that these objects show images from America’s offensive and racist past.

Escaping history will always be an issue when America’s obstinacy refuse to acknowledge deep seated cultural bigotry and hypocrisy. Consider the third stanza of the Star Spangle Banner:

It is shameful that these places where our ancestors were enslaved, whipped, raped, tortured and exposed to fatal diseases have been whitewashed and turned into tourist attractions. I believe that law-abiding citizens shouldn’t be exposed to degrading imagery promoted by card-carrying white supremacist.

Should we appoint a Correction Commission to examine the backgrounds of the people who have streets named for them? How about sculptures offensive to American Indians? What about streets with Spanish or Mexican names? Better yet! Will America change the name of Washington state? You can see where this line of reasoning can take America. There’s plenty to cover in covering up America’s ugly history!

For the past few generations we’ve been transformed to a divisive politically correct, tolerant culture. America still put every person and every ideology into sub classes or groups with the purpose of pitting one group against another. Does erasing history make us a better nation by focusing only on the wrongs done in the past? From the stains of the past from slavery and the Civil Rights struggles in the South and Anti War hate filled acts towards young men coming home from Vietnam, the United States of America has had her share of national shame.

Dealing with “Escaping History” is a sensitive issue, and comparing it to what’s happening in our country today, where we are so divided racially, it’s hard to put things into perspective. Things were far from perfect back in those days, and there were ignorant bigots back then just as they are today.

George Washington Carver once said that “Ninety-nine percent of the failures comes from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

~Willie J. Warren M.A., Retired Professor, Freelance Writer