Today is the 16th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, when a deranged, sad, confessed white supremacist named Timothy McVeigh, bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people in 1994.
Sadly, it seems America, thanks in large part to 9-11, the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism, and the media, has forgot that terrorism can as much have a white or black face, as it can have a Middle Eastern one. And if Donald Trump keeps up his PR strategy, it could fuel new acts of domestic terrorism.
Indeed, threats of domestic terrorism from white supremacist groups is higher than ever today. According to the blog, The Root, the number of white supremacist groups reached a record high in 2010. And that was fueled by the election of Barack Obama.
An aside: it's also why I'm asking Donald Trump to shut up about the certificate of live birth, and Obama, because it's not true and fueling white supremacists groups. My video:
Back to the issue:
In The Root, Heidi Beirich, director of research for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said: "There's no question that Obama's election drew people into the hate world. These groups' [online] servers were crashing on the night of the election from all the traffic." The spring 2011 Intelligence Report, released Thursday, lists 1,002 hate groups, a 7.5 percent increase since 2009 and a surge of 66 percent since 2000.
And over that period, media pundits like Lou Dobbs made their shows a place where white supremacists could feel comfortable, fueling hate for Latinos in the process, in the way Dobbs talked about the immigration issue:
Dobbs at CNN, and some at Fox News, have given fuel to white supremacist anger. Fortunately, Dobbs was sacked at CNN, but Fox News lived on. And the media spilling racist ideas had its effect on people like James W. von Brunn.
Mr. James W. von Brunn is the 88-year-old white man who shot black security guard Stephen Johns, before being shot himself. von Brunn had entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2009 with a loaded weapon and in an apparent domestic terrorism attempt.
Donald Trump must stop.
Donald Trump must stop his silly PR game now. It's threatening to divide parts of America at the very time the country needs to come together. Prominent African Americans like Bill Cosby and Whoopi Goldberg have come out against Trump, and the list is growing.
Many of the people who believe Trump have commented on my videos and left some of the most outrageous statements, proving that evidence will not sway them to stop; they want to believe something is wrong with President Obama.
The good thing about the exchange, to be frank, is that the commenters have not used racist terms, and I thank them for that. That's progress. But they do show a bias so deep, it tosses logic and evidence aside in favor of their own fantasies about Obama.
Let's hope that this at least marks a period where, unlike the days of Lou Dobbs, birthers don't show the bad habits of white supremacists. We don't need more "off" Americans like Timothy McVeigh and we must cool the rancor that could lead to an Oklahoma City-style bombing in the future.
This blogger is going to talk about Donald Trump until he stops. Someone must take action.
Sadly, it seems America, thanks in large part to 9-11, the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism, and the media, has forgot that terrorism can as much have a white or black face, as it can have a Middle Eastern one. And if Donald Trump keeps up his PR strategy, it could fuel new acts of domestic terrorism.
Indeed, threats of domestic terrorism from white supremacist groups is higher than ever today. According to the blog, The Root, the number of white supremacist groups reached a record high in 2010. And that was fueled by the election of Barack Obama.
An aside: it's also why I'm asking Donald Trump to shut up about the certificate of live birth, and Obama, because it's not true and fueling white supremacists groups. My video:
Back to the issue:
In The Root, Heidi Beirich, director of research for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said: "There's no question that Obama's election drew people into the hate world. These groups' [online] servers were crashing on the night of the election from all the traffic." The spring 2011 Intelligence Report, released Thursday, lists 1,002 hate groups, a 7.5 percent increase since 2009 and a surge of 66 percent since 2000.
And over that period, media pundits like Lou Dobbs made their shows a place where white supremacists could feel comfortable, fueling hate for Latinos in the process, in the way Dobbs talked about the immigration issue:
Dobbs at CNN, and some at Fox News, have given fuel to white supremacist anger. Fortunately, Dobbs was sacked at CNN, but Fox News lived on. And the media spilling racist ideas had its effect on people like James W. von Brunn.
Mr. James W. von Brunn is the 88-year-old white man who shot black security guard Stephen Johns, before being shot himself. von Brunn had entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2009 with a loaded weapon and in an apparent domestic terrorism attempt.
Donald Trump must stop.
Many of the people who believe Trump have commented on my videos and left some of the most outrageous statements, proving that evidence will not sway them to stop; they want to believe something is wrong with President Obama.
The good thing about the exchange, to be frank, is that the commenters have not used racist terms, and I thank them for that. That's progress. But they do show a bias so deep, it tosses logic and evidence aside in favor of their own fantasies about Obama.
Let's hope that this at least marks a period where, unlike the days of Lou Dobbs, birthers don't show the bad habits of white supremacists. We don't need more "off" Americans like Timothy McVeigh and we must cool the rancor that could lead to an Oklahoma City-style bombing in the future.
This blogger is going to talk about Donald Trump until he stops. Someone must take action.
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