Imagine for a second, its 2008 and a man who isn’t so well-known, a man of color named Barack Hussein Obama was running for President of the United States of America. Now imagine, this man of color was able to draw thousands of people of color to his campaign rallies by being a voice of their most inner thoughts – thoughts of hate. Imagine if Barack Hussein Obama said things like, “white people are violent mass murders” or “white people have the highest percentage of child molesters and abusers” or “we need to build a wall on the border of Canada that would prevent more dangerous mass murdering, child molesters into the United States”. Also, imagine thousands of people of color at a Barack campaign rally and out of nowhere appears some white protesters. These white protesters are highly offended at the messages that Obama had been spewing and they have decided to exercise their Right to Protest during one of his rallies. Now – imagine if people of color got so angry at these protesters , they began to physically attack them at every rally. Imagine if you will, people of color, grabbing, punching, spitting on white protesters and calling them cunts and crackers. Imagine the police, who are also people of color, doing NOTHING to protect these white protesters from these violent people of color. Imagine, black police officers being so focused on the white protesters, that they blindly ignore the physical assaults right before their eyes, coming from the Blacks/Hispanics who attend the Obama rallies.
Can you imagine the backlash! Can you imagine how the news would make certain to highlight the continued violence the blacks/hispanics were displaying? Can you imagine the names that blacks/Hispanics would be called – niggers, animals, thugs? Can you imagine the heightened security, possibly even calling out the National Guard to protect the innocent white protesters? This scenario can go on for days. The point of this was to really sit back and think about how Trump is getting away what the most blatant forms of White Privilege and so are his violent protesters.
As Americans, Freedom of Assembly/Freedom of Association/Right to Protest is upheld by the Constitution of the United States. See The First Amendment, which states, “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances’; also don’t forget this First amendment also grants our ‘Freedom of Speech’. It seems pathetically ironic how the types of people who can be seen assembling at these Trump rallies to listen to his hate speeches are the same people who constantly defend his rhetoric with that of ‘Freedom of Speech’. However, these same Trump supporters want to suppress the Freedom of Speech of those who don’t agree with Trump. But to disagree with protesters is one thing – to ATTACK AND ASSAULT them is taking this Trump fuckery to a whole new level.
In February 2016, while a attending a Hillary Clinton rally, a protester jumped up right beside me and started yelling at Hillary during her Town Hall Meeting here in Charleston, SC at Royal Baptist Life Center. He kept calling a liar and screamed how she had like about Benghazi. Check out how removing the protester from the premises was handled:
Benghazi Protester removed at Hillary Rally
Simple, barely touching the man – the usher simply walked him out. Besides a few “shut-ups” from the crowd, nothing major.
Now Check out how they handle protesters at a Donald Trump Rally:
Silent Protesting Teen Girl- Assaulted by Thugs at Donald Trump rally
Punk Spits on non-violent Protester
Thug Sucker punches Non violent Protester
The problem here is that the media, the police and other politicians do not seem to be bothered by this surge of violence at all. Politicians continue to endorse Trump and the people hired to protect and serve, seem to only want to protect and serve anyone who isn’t black. It’s only a matter of time before this escalates and protesters, who have every right to protest, begin to bust back.
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