Increased racism happened during the 1st trump administration. It'll be worse this time around. He's nearly demolished every single civil rights department in the federal government. We need to protect each other and glad to see that happening at her book store.
Everything in this article is horrific, sickening. This is what the Donald has wrought by throwing fuel on racism. Reading today's SubStack I remembered putting a STOP GOP Hate bumper sticker on my car in 2008. I remember getting jeers from people when they would pass me on the road. I knew what was coming. Of course the Tea Party was ramping up at that time. And here we are. Thanks Lukium for shedding the light on this issue and I am proud of the family being attacked for standing up for themselves. We ALL have to do that for ourselves and each other.
I was thinking about this the other day… comparing racism today with 10 and 20 years ago… and it’s a sad day when you look to past racism as something that’s better than today (as one would hope that we'd be in a trend towards less, not more)
I will never understand how any human being can treat any other human being like this. There is no rational reason for it, but the bully mentality will always be there, unfortunately. The only way to stop someone from taking these kinds of despicable actions is to fight back, and that is exactly what we are witnessing now. This is a fight that we must never give up on or give in to, or we are no better than the bullies themselves.
One thing I have said over the years is that if there's one major problem in America I can point to is our over-tolerance towards certain types of bigotry. Sure, much has been done to "cancel" people once they turn into vile, disgusting people, but I see little to nothing being done to prevent people from becoming so. I'm not sure what the exact answer is, but it seems to be that unless you can prevent people from being raised in such a manner, we will forever be doomed to the cancer that is white-supremacy and other kinds of bigotry.
Unfortunately this is a problem everywhere on the planet. About a quarter of the population of the world falls into this wretched category, which will always be problematic. It makes me think that this might have some genetic link, far fetched as that may seem.
Increased racism happened during the 1st trump administration. It'll be worse this time around. He's nearly demolished every single civil rights department in the federal government. We need to protect each other and glad to see that happening at her book store.
Everything in this article is horrific, sickening. This is what the Donald has wrought by throwing fuel on racism. Reading today's SubStack I remembered putting a STOP GOP Hate bumper sticker on my car in 2008. I remember getting jeers from people when they would pass me on the road. I knew what was coming. Of course the Tea Party was ramping up at that time. And here we are. Thanks Lukium for shedding the light on this issue and I am proud of the family being attacked for standing up for themselves. We ALL have to do that for ourselves and each other.
I was thinking about this the other day… comparing racism today with 10 and 20 years ago… and it’s a sad day when you look to past racism as something that’s better than today (as one would hope that we'd be in a trend towards less, not more)
Thank you sharing this important story - a Profile In Courage.
Meta is messing with my ability to share this but I will not stop
I may end up banned. Apparently, meta sees Substack as spam. I am fighting with community standards
I usually just post to my timeline on Facebook/Threads, no problems so far. Maybe just share my post that way you don’t have issues
https://www.facebook.com/amanifestonews
https://www.threads.net/@americanmanifesto.news
I will never understand how any human being can treat any other human being like this. There is no rational reason for it, but the bully mentality will always be there, unfortunately. The only way to stop someone from taking these kinds of despicable actions is to fight back, and that is exactly what we are witnessing now. This is a fight that we must never give up on or give in to, or we are no better than the bullies themselves.
One thing I have said over the years is that if there's one major problem in America I can point to is our over-tolerance towards certain types of bigotry. Sure, much has been done to "cancel" people once they turn into vile, disgusting people, but I see little to nothing being done to prevent people from becoming so. I'm not sure what the exact answer is, but it seems to be that unless you can prevent people from being raised in such a manner, we will forever be doomed to the cancer that is white-supremacy and other kinds of bigotry.
Unfortunately this is a problem everywhere on the planet. About a quarter of the population of the world falls into this wretched category, which will always be problematic. It makes me think that this might have some genetic link, far fetched as that may seem.