The Death of the Second Reconstruction
With Donald Trump attacking DEI, Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airman, impoverished
immigrants, women, federal agencies designed to help the poor, and other improvements fought for by the movements for social justice over decades, it is apparent that Trump and his administration of misfits are on a political rampage. This includes trying to remove the
provisions of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
The Release of Criminals
He has also released 1500 criminals from prison that attacked and killed people at the capitol. Some of the people he released are die-hard racists and fascists who are hell-bent on revenge.
Targeting Marginalized Communities and Critics
He has removed people from their jobs if they disagree with the tyrant to dilute programs that help the marginalized in this country, or has frozen positions. He wants to use the military against protesters that disagree with him in a blatant attempt to become the so-called “strong man.”
Trump’s Narcissism and Manipulative Tactics
He has never had to pay for his evil crimes and hence believes he is indestructible. His mental disorder, simply put is narcissism. A sickness where one believes they are never wrong and are experts at manipulation and abuse, sometimes violent.
We can ignore him, or think we can just ignore his policies, but this will not stop his 2025 program. Sheltering in place will not stop his rampage. It all echoes the end of segregation, the election of Obama, and further back in time, Reconstruction.
Historical Parallels of Backlash Against Progress
When segregation “officially” ended many people went home and went to sleep never to be awakened. When Obama was elected, some Black folk thought it was the beginning of the end of white supremacy, and when the southern slave owning states lost the Civil War and the rights of Black people were restored the Ku Klux Klan was organized to destroy the progress. Trump represents the new wave of hateful ignorant people.
The Reconstruction Era
After the Civil War, General William Sherman issued General Order 15, which gave Black People 400,000 acres of land in different parts of the South for the crime of slavery. After the Civil War Congress authorized the Freedmen Bureau to educate Black people. Blacks sang and danced when Juneteenth was announced in Texas, but it would all be mightily be swept away. After Lincoln was killed, President Andrew Jackson took the land back and gave it to white supremacists, all of the Freedmen Bureau schools were burned to the ground, and Juneteenth was destroyed with Jim Crow law.
Every advancement of Black people is seen as a threat to white supremacists. The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 represented the second Reconstruction and now that too is being sabotaged by Trump and his army of traitors and white supremacists. The war against white supremacy never ends. We must not stop fighting and we must not think that “sheltering in place” will not save us from Project 2025.
When the slave owners released people from captivity, they thought to implement barriers and tricks so as to prevent full freedom. They passed down these lunatic ideas from one racist generation to the next, making white supremacy a virus that can has no immunity from one president to the next.
Do Not Take Shelter
White supremacy was the basis for the creation of America and it still rears its ugly head. This was done over and over again and now the new tricksters with Trump have picked of the banner of hatred and racism. Human and civil rights are being betrayed by the Trump regime, and we must continue the fight white supremacy, which as to be the new Civil and Human rights movement.
