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Because
that is what happens all too often whenever these people with their racial
hang-ups insist on exercising their right to free expression (their ‘right to
be wrong’) – the end result is usually something so laughable.
WE
GET OUR chuckle at the thought anybody could be deluded enough to think such
thoughts. We comment about third-rate brown shirts who likely would have been
rejected by the real Nazi Party had they tried to join back in 1930s-era
Germany.
Or
maybe we joke about wondering just how those Klansmen get their sheets so
white.
We
laugh them off because the spectacle usually is ludicrous.
Like
the time I once covered a Klan rally held outside the Illinois Statehouse in
Springfield – the Klan chaplain (I forget the goofy K-laden title they gave
him) led the protesters in a “prayer” that God strike Planet Earth with a
plague that would wipe out all the undesirable life forms and leaving the globe
free and clear for white people.
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OR
ANOTHER RALLY I once covered outside the Bloomington, Ill., hospital where
American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell was born. They laid a
wreath to pay tribute to their founder, and the followers who came uniformed in
swastika armbands and helmets took a public pledge that bore some resemblance
to the one that the “Illinois Nazis” took in the film “The Blues Brothers.”
Remember?
They pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler, only to see the one-time Mount
Prospect police car driven by noted scofflaw Elwood Blues come roaring at them –
forcing them to all dive into a nearby river.
The
rally held recently in Charlottesville, Va., had no such laughable moments.
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What
wound up happening was that a white supremacist backer drove his car into the
group of counter-demonstrators who wanted to make their opposition known.
WE
NOW HAVE fatalities caused by these people whose insecurities about life cause
them to want to think the accident of Caucasian conception makes them a
superior form of life.
One-time
Klan leader and Louisiana politico David Duke described the events as being one
of, “We are determined to take our country back.” President Donald Trump has
taken some abuse because his initial statements about the matter came so many
hours after it occurred, and were lukewarm as though he were trying to shift
blame to the counter-protesters – who are the ones who suffered a casualty in
all this.
When
Trump tried making a harsher statement that acknowledged the absurdity of the
white supremacists, Duke retorted by telling the president, “I would recommend
you take a good look in the mirror and remember it was white Americans who put
you in the presidency, not radical leftists.”
These
are the racist ideologues who were the bulk of the 46 percent of the electorate
that was able to give Trump an Electoral College victory making it clear they
won’t be ignored.
IT’S
GOING TO be hard for Trump to continue to deny he’s president because of the
bigots amongst us who saw his repeated ridiculous rhetoric as backing of their
own racist ideals. Particularly since the gaudy tower that contains the hotel he operates in Chicago is now a popular gathering place for the protesters.
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Many
of us who would have dismissed Friday’s event for the Wal-mart-purchased Tiki
torches carried by the white supremacist protesters or the ridiculous attempts
at being clad in paramilitary gear are going to have to take a more serious
look at this segment of our society.
Which
may be a minority going about chanting “You will not replace us.” But it is one
with an un-American ideal in that they’d want to use their freedom of
expression to overpower everyone not like themselves into a position of
submission.
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