Don's Tuesday Column

                        THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   10/06/2020

            America, Trump soar; Biden, left lie

America is the world’s most color-blind nation, although you wouldn’t think so from the hysterical obsession with race by left wing activists and hustlers. They’re the ones disingenuously, mindlessly screaming “Black lives matter,” haranguing white people dining peacefully—shouting, enraged that said diners won’t raise their fists and echo the mantra.

The greatest American advocate for racial equity and healing, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., shared this: “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

It’s beyond shameful that the image of the current BLM movement is summed up by a white “antifa-blm-er” screaming with a nearly hoarse voice and twisted mouth, calling a black cop the n-word, an “uncle tom,” threatening to find his home and burn it down. Is that what we’ve come to? Rule by racist leftists?

We’ve not heard forceful, passionate rebukes, condemnations or renunciations of such verbal violence from Democrats, Biden or Harris. No denouncing the rioting, looting and arson—at $1-2 billion of damage, the most destructive in our history—over “systemic” racial oppression. Biden can’t even say “law enforcement” or “law and order” without qualifiers like “safety” or “justice.” Lawful order is safety and justice in neighborhoods of every economic and racial category. Black residents have told reporters: they want more cops.

I read somewhere that the combined wealth of America’s black citizens would, if compared to other nations, exceed that of any African nation and even a number of European ones. We should celebrate the (pre-pandemic) highest wages and employment among America’s Black and Hispanic citizens in history, due to President Trump’s single-minded efforts to lower the tax burden of job creators and remove regulatory impediments to businesses growing. He’ll do it again.

Meanwhile, the news media/Democrat cabal yells (white supremacist) “squirrel” repeatedly in despicable attempts to paint President Trump as a closet racist, using “dog whistle” messaging to ingratiate himself with Nazis, KKK or other fringe movements. They yell their demands that Trump “renounce white supremacy,” oblivious to the 20-year record of (often the same) reporters asking the same questions and getting the same answers:

“David Duke…a bigot, a racist…” (Trump, Feb. 2000); “Would you repudiate David Duke?” Trump: “Sure” (April, 2015); “…David Duke, the white supremacist movement, the robocalls are out again supporting you…” Trump: “I disavow it”; Trump: “David Duke endorsed me? I disavow…”; “I’ve disavowed David Duke all weekend long, on Facebook, on Twitter, it’s obviously never enough” (all Feb. 2016); George Stephanopoulos: “So, are you prepared right now to make a clear, unequivocal statement renouncing the support of all white supremacists?” Trump: “Of course I am, of course I am”; 

“When Chris (Christy) joined, we had a news conference and they asked me the exact same question—I disavowed then, I disavowed (D. Duke et al) today with George Stephanopoulos”; “David Duke is a bad person who I disavowed on numerous occasions over the years”; “I totally disavow the Ku Klux Klan, I totally disavow David Duke…”; John Dickerson: “Do you want those (white supremacists) votes?” Trump: “No, I don’t want the support of any group of hate” (all in March, 2016);

(To Chuck Todd) “I did and I do (repudiate) and rebuke David Duke (running for Senate)…rebuked, ok? (Todd: “rebuked”) Trump: “done” (Todd: “done,” July, 2016); Jake Tapper: “Do you want white supremacists to vote for you?” Trump: “No, I don’t, not at all” (August, 2016); CNN: “His (Trump’s) campaign is denouncing a show of support from the KKK’s official newspaper”; Wolf Blitzer: “In the same New York Times interview, [Trump] denounced white supremacists, he denounced the neo-Nazis who support him” (November 2016);

Trump: “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, the neo-Nazis, white supremacists,” “And you had people, and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally,” “I spoke out forcefully against hatred, bigotry and violence and strongly condemned the neo-Nazis, the white supremacists and the KKK” (August, 2017);

WCCO reporter: “President Donald Trump signed a congressional joint resolution that condemns white supremacy, neo-Nazis and other hate groups” (Sept. 2017); Trump: “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy”; “Any group of hate, I don’t like it, any group, whether its white supremacy, any other kind of supremacy, antifa, any group of hate, I am very concerned and will do something about it” (August, 2019).

In a 2016 debate, Trump denounced every iteration of white supremacy to…Chris Wallace. That didn’t cause Wallace a pause, on Tuesday, as he talked over Trump who repeated “Sure,” “Sure” and “Sure, I’d be willing…tell me the groups (to denounce).” Let’s get past myths of Trump and race obsession.

Look up “Critical Race Theory Is A Classic Communist Divide-And-Conquer Tactic—Rather than help heal the nation, critical race theory has proven to be poisonous to liberty, true community, and our common humanity” by Stella Morabito (Thefederalist.com, 9/29).

Trump debated as I wished he would: Start with strong answers, within the rules. When Biden broke the rules by interrupting (Biden repeatedly interrupted Veep candidate Paul Ryan in 2012), Trump kept kicking it up a notch until a flustered Biden lost his cool and started name-calling. Trump beat Wallace, too.

See also: “Correct the Record: Biden Makes 33 False or Misleading Claims at the Debate”; “Joe Biden’s Top Six Lies from the First Debate” by Matt Palumbo (Bongino.com 9/30) and “Presidential Debate Number One: A Biden Fact-Check” by Celine Ryan (Humanevents.com 9/30). Lying about Trump is all they have.