Making America White Again Part I

THE ONLY WAY to actually measure a person's character is through their actions. Words are much more deceptive. For example, you could argue, like Gore Vidal once did, that we are all "racists", in that we create and maintain artificial racial distinctions and categories. Merely acknowledging the existence of distinct, seperate races rather than viewing humanity as a nearly infinite spectrum of characteristics, including skin color, is, in a way, a sort of racism. When we use words to express our attitudes towards racism, we all, universailly, to a man, condemn it, vigorously proclaim our rejection of it, and accuse others of it. That, at least, seems to be the usual pattern. Trump, for instance (I tend to not use the word "president" with his name). He, like all the rest of us, would, will, and has sworn up and down that he is the furthest thing from a racist. I, however, and seemingly millions of other Americans, including many who know him personally extremely well, do not agree. I have for a long tiem believed that Trump is a racist,I believed it before he became his current job, and, during his administrations, have only come to believe it more. I am more convinced now than ever before that Donald Trump is a real, hard core racist. He's also a misogynist and a homophobe, but that, as they say, is another matter, for another day. Dozens of books have been written about Trump by people who know hi well, personally. They all agree that he is a racist, and that he does nto conceal it in private converstaions. It has beenoften reported taht in private conversations, he ofen uses the dreaded "N" word. An "incident" that happened just the other day is a perfect example, one among many. As a country which receives millions of refugees from foreign countires, the United Sates has, and has had for a long time, official policies from the federal government concerning how the United States treats them, how many are accepted into the country, and so forth. Of course, the specifics of American refugees policy are always changing, from administration to administration, and both Congress and the president participate in formulating refugee policy. For the current year, for instance, the Trump administration, with presumably the complete approval of the Republican controlled Congress, has decided that only seventy five hundred refugees will be accepted. It has also decided that the seventy five hundred will be accepted from Soouth Africa, and will be, "coincidentally", white South Africans, allegedly fleeing from persecution by black South Africans. If this isn't a rather sneaky way of avoiding brown and black skinned refugees, and getting white refugees,I don't know what is.A batantly racist policy, with,as Imentioned, the complete apparant approval of the Republican party, and probalby MAGA in general. This sad, twisted, sick government policy has Trump written all over it, if anything does. Trump, who early in his first term clearly expressed his preference for immigrants to American from Norway, rather than those "shit hole" African countries, as he called them. Telling him that Hispanic ethnicity is broadly included in the "white" category would make no difference. He described, you might recall, the white supremacists, but not their progressive left wing opponents, as "beautiful people". We Americans tend to welcome immigrants when we need them to exploit, and to exclude them when we no longer need them. There are more than ten million badly needed undocumented,illegal people living in the U.S. currently, and even if Trump continues to ignore their vital importance to our country, we who are more intelligent and less racist than Trump, especially farmers, cannot afford to.