Police And Law Enforcement Authorities

Donald Trump’s Promotion Of Return Of Racial Segregation!

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It is unfathomable how Donald Trump, 70 years after the unanimous Brown V Board of Education Supreme Court decision (1954) outlawed racial segregation, which promoted the Civil Rights Movement and transformed the nation, is working earnestly to reverse all of that progress, and promote the return of segregation.

In the 1960s, Alabama Governor George Wallace became a threat as a third party nominee with the same aim as Donald Trump, but he could not win the Presidency, thank goodness.

But now Trump is going full scale ahead to wipe out all of the racial progress, advocating discrimination returning as official policy, thrilling white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party supporters.

Trump is going beyond just race, but also gender, wishing to set back the vast progress of women in American life since the 1960s.

Trump has, by an extensive number of executive orders, promoted all end of DEI initiatives at all levels, including higher education institutions, corporations, federal government agencies, and cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution museums in Washington DC and across the nation.

Trump is working to destroy all civil rights litigation, and causing growing fear that police and law enforcement will return to the era of abuse toward racial and ethnic minorities.

All references to notable African Americans, Latinos, native Americans, women, and gay, lesbian and transgender people are being scrubbed from government websites.

And Trump is trying to totally close down the Department of Education created under President Jimmy Carter in 1979, to promote equal educational opportunity and funding for low income and marginalized students.

His aim is to promote White Male Supremacy and dominance, what people who would agree with him would consider “The Good Old Days” before the 1950s and since!

All decent, fairminded people must work to resist and overcome this clearcut racism, nativism, and misogyny of Donald Trump!

7 Months To Inauguration Day: Fears Grow Of Potential For Disastrous Events Before Election Day, And Up To Inauguration Day

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America has gone through 41 months of the Trump Presidency as of today, June 20, and faces 7 more months until Inauguration Day, and 4.5 months until Election Day.

It is well known that events in the next 4.5 months could dramatically change the results of the Presidential Election of 2020, from what they might seem to be today.

This would not be the first time that “last minute” events, often called the “October Surprise”, transformed what happened on Election Day.

With all of the tumult and conflict we have witnessed under Donald Trump’s Presidency, it now looks as if Joe Biden is a clear cut front runner, but this is not a time to relax, as no result is certain, and people need to exercise their right to vote.

Somehow, with a first nearly six months of 2020 being so unbelievable, with the impeachment trial; the CoronaVirus Pandemic coming upon us: the resultant complete collapse of the American economy; and the escalating violence by law enforcement against black men, leading to widespread demonstrations and some violence, one has to have trepidation about what the rest of this year portends!

“Stand Your Ground” Laws In 21 States License To Kill! Their Repeal Is Urgent!

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The National Rifle Association has been very successful in promoting passage of “Stand Your Ground” Laws in 21 states, including Florida, where a black teenager, Trayvon Martin, was murdered by a vigilante Volunteer Patrol individual, George Zimmerman, inside a gated community in Sanford, near Orlando, even though he had no weapon, was much smaller and lighter than Zimmerman, but was seen by Zimmerman as a threat.

The law in these 21 states must be repealed, as it has led to licensed murder based on fear and racial profiling, with almost all of the victims since 2005 being minorities, primarily young black men.

The law allows vigilantes, and unstable people, the license to kill, and claim self defense. It does not leave the issue of crime and threats to police and other law enforcement authorities, and dismisses the role that rubber bullets, tear gas, and tasers could play in such situations, avoiding death.

And one has to wonder if George Zimmerman believed his life was in danger, why could he not have avoided direct contact, since the 911 call person told him to leave the situation to police, since he had reported what he regarded as a dangerous young man.

And also, if he was going to shoot, why not shoot the so called “culprit” in the leg or arm, and avoid areas of the body that would kill him instantly?

The power of the National Rifle Association, and other gun fanatics, must be curbed, or else there will be many more tragedies such as this one, and we will become ever more what we are now, the most gun violent society in the world!