Donald Trump, Racism, White Racism and the 2020 Presidential Election

Lord have mercy! What has the past several days wrought?! Some weeks are made for the history books! There is no doubt that history will look back upon the week of July 14–20th 2019 as a time when the nation was embroiled in a literal daily specter of racial animus. The vast majority sinisterly engineered and spearheaded by our derelict commander-in-chief himself.

As if his prior, racially inflected comments had not been distasteful enough, Trump managed to hurl an apocalyptic verbal hand grenade into the political bonfire when he recklessly chided congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley as being “ungrateful haters of America and that each of them should “go back to the respective nation’s that they came from.” Yes! you read that last sentence correctly! For each of them, that would mean The United States of America!

Not surprisingly, as you can imagine, all sorts of hell broke loose both inside and outside of the beltway in D.C. Trump took all sorts of verbal body blows and was justifiably being politically pelted from all quarters, from across the entire political spectrum. Columnists, pundits, bloggers and commentators of all stripes weighed in on the matter. Suffice it to say that things got pretty damn heavy!

While espousing, cruel, irresponsible, callous rhetoric has been par for the course for our 45th president, this latest round of comments shell shocked even his most ardent critics, Even…