Trump Brings his Racism To a Celebration of Civil Rights, Spewing Insincere Garbage

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI is celebrating its bicentennial, and christening a new civil rights museum. Old Miss has come a long way from the days of "Mississippi" burning, and Emmit till. Nor long enough; racism malingers, but fifty years ago a civil right museum was unthinkable, because civil rights did not yet exist, but were still on the battlefield. president Trump appeared, and made a speech. Nothing more inappropriate ever occurred in Dixie, nor anywhere else. trump's remarks were canned, hollow, and banal, referring to the totally terrific struggle of the African-American people to achieve equality. Trump and his kind think that the struggle against racism is long since over, since they don't notice it, and he probably thinks that a museum dedicated to the struggle is racist, and place African-Americans in a position of preferential elite status. there is a reason why civil rights leaders, the people who actually made progress happen, people like John Lewis, boycotted the president. The reason is that the president is a racist himself. his appearance in Mississippi was a mere photo opportunity, a concession to the requirement that politicians be at least occasionally politically correct. the nearby protest make the point quite clearly. In 1974, managing his father's apartment properties, Trump put the letter "C" on all applications for living quarters from African-Americans , the "c' standing for colored. he had to make sure that daddy and everyone else knew in advance the skin pigmentation of potential tenants. They didn't get the apartment. Much more recently, Trump spent the Obama administration as a "birther", ignoring berth certificates and eye witness testimony to proclaim that Barack Hussein Obama had actually been born in Kenya, not Hawaii. the nurse who delivered the future president, still alive, had a different memory, and thy shared it, but Trump and hs gang of right wing extremists racists conveniently ignored the facts, as is their wont. The only possible motivation for the birther movement was racist based hatred. To claim otherwise is to be a reprehensible liar. Good ole white boys have become ashamed of their racism, and whereas fifty years ago flaunted it, now they try to disguise it, without success. No, trump did not belong in Mississippi for the kick off of the civil rights museum, and the people who did belong stayed away, repulsed. One can grudgingly respect the honesty of confederate flagging openly racist rednecks, for their honesty if not their values and intelligence. Trump is of the far more common insidious type. Morally challenged, but too cowardly to admit it, because he knows exactly what a reprobate he is.