Donald Trump,the GOP, and his administration are racists. This truth is not simply a moral judgment or a pejorative criticism. It is an assessment that describes a critical risk facing the U.S. Instead of providing a risk assessment of terrorism based on intelligence and analysis, Trump and his administration succumbed to their bias against non-white people. More specifically, the Administration's white supremacists believe that white people are endangered by immigrants from the Middle East and from Latin America. Their primary objective is to stop immigration, rather than disrupting terrorism.
This week, following one of Trump's disturbing rants where he demeaned the media for not adequately covering terrorist attacks, he produced a list of 78 violent events from September 2014 to December 2016. Commentators have reviewed the list to disprove that these were uncovered events. The list is difficult to use because does not have a definition of what is terrorism or what areas of the world are covered.
The President of the United States, responsible for keeping all Americans safe, does not include the threat from white supremacists. This omission is especially disturbing when there are recent, important examples currently being covered by the media. Just this week, six people were murdered at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center . The terrorist here is a 26 year old pro-Trump student described by acquaintances as a far-right ultra nationalist white supremacist. Prime Minister Trudeau called this horrible crime an act of terror. Trump was silent, neglecting to extend sympathy or support to Canada.
The Trump list does not include Dylan Roof's cold blooded terrorist attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in which nine Black church members were murdered. Roof's trial with his self-described hatred and terrorist intentions was recently extensively covered by the media, but is not included on Trump's terrorist list.
He does not include Robert Dear's vicious attack on a Planned Parenthood in November 2015 where he shot 27 and killed 3. It does not include Allen Scarcella's shooting of five protesters in a Black Lives Matter rally in Minneapolis.
Donald Trump has made a big deal about the power of categorizing a threat with a frank label; he has blasted Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for not using the term, "radical Islamic terrorists". If this definition of a threat is helpful, we need President Trump to warn Americans about the threat from radical white nationalists.
The Trump list does not include Dylan Roof's cold blooded terrorist attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in which nine Black church members were murdered. Roof's trial with his self-described hatred and terrorist intentions was recently extensively covered by the media, but is not included on Trump's terrorist list.
He does not include Robert Dear's vicious attack on a Planned Parenthood in November 2015 where he shot 27 and killed 3. It does not include Allen Scarcella's shooting of five protesters in a Black Lives Matter rally in Minneapolis.
Donald Trump has made a big deal about the power of categorizing a threat with a frank label; he has blasted Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for not using the term, "radical Islamic terrorists". If this definition of a threat is helpful, we need President Trump to warn Americans about the threat from radical white nationalists.
This week, following one of Trump's disturbing rants where he demeaned the media for not adequately covering terrorist attacks, he produced a list of 78 violent events from September 2014 to December 2016. Commentators have reviewed the list to disprove that these were uncovered events. The list is difficult to use because does not have a definition of what is terrorism or what areas of the world are covered.
The President of the United States, responsible for keeping all Americans safe, does not include the threat from white supremacists. This omission is especially disturbing when there are recent, important examples currently being covered by the media. Just this week, six people were murdered at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center . The terrorist here is a 26 year old pro-Trump student described by acquaintances as a far-right ultra nationalist white supremacist. Prime Minister Trudeau called this horrible crime an act of terror. Trump was silent, neglecting to extend sympathy or support to Canada.
The Trump list does not include Dylan Roof's cold blooded terrorist attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in which nine Black church members were murdered. Roof's trial with his self-described hatred and terrorist intentions was recently extensively covered by the media, but is not included on Trump's terrorist list.
He does not include Robert Dear's vicious attack on a Planned Parenthood in November 2015 where he shot 27 and killed 3. It does not include Allen Scarcella's shooting of five protesters in a Black Lives Matter rally in Minneapolis.
Donald Trump has made a big deal about the power of categorizing a threat with a frank label; he has blasted Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for not using the term, "radical Islamic terrorists". If this definition of a threat is helpful, we need President Trump to warn Americans about the threat from radical white nationalists.
The Trump list does not include Dylan Roof's cold blooded terrorist attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in which nine Black church members were murdered. Roof's trial with his self-described hatred and terrorist intentions was recently extensively covered by the media, but is not included on Trump's terrorist list.
He does not include Robert Dear's vicious attack on a Planned Parenthood in November 2015 where he shot 27 and killed 3. It does not include Allen Scarcella's shooting of five protesters in a Black Lives Matter rally in Minneapolis.
Donald Trump has made a big deal about the power of categorizing a threat with a frank label; he has blasted Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for not using the term, "radical Islamic terrorists". If this definition of a threat is helpful, we need President Trump to warn Americans about the threat from radical white nationalists.