In light of Charlottesville, I noticed…

Not parenthetically, I am well acquainted with several people and friends with many of them who voted for Trump. They are to a tea racists and xenophobe, either unabashedly in frank and open discussions with me or by intended innuendo.

In some of my conversations with them recently (before Charlottesville) ‘with regard to other racial incidents, they support Trump’s implied racism and anti-immigrants and anti-Muslim bans and take the side of law enforcement’s “excused” murders of blacks… saying things like “why should the cops take any chances? Shoot first or be shot”.

There are millions upon millions of our citizens that have this identical attitude. They are also real Americans … perhaps just as real as those in the southern anti-bellum period and those slave owners like T. Jefferson and G. Washington, and A. Jackson… as well as the revered Calhoun, and Senator Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were before their traitorous acts against the federal gov’t they had previously supported and worked for.

All they wanted was to “preserve our way of life” which included slavery and unabashed disparagement of blacks who were “inferior humans” only fit to server the superior White races as slaves.

This belief persisted and existed in spades in the highly publicized Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.

It persisted and existed in spades after SOTUS’ first decision in Brown v Topeka Board of Education in 1954, and again in spades in their decision in Brown 2 in 1955 to proceed with integration “with all deliberate speed” and which Virginia decided meant they could close down the public schools while giving tax payer revenues to citizens to pay for private schools to avoid the law.

It persisted and existed in January 1963 when the new Governor Wallace of Alabama gave his inaugural address:

“In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

In June 1963 Wallace used the Alabama National Guard to prevent integration of the University of Alabama, forcing President Kennedy to prepare the US Army, send U.S. Marshalls and nationalize the Alabama State national guard to get Wallace to comply with the law.

These are all real Americans.

In 1964, the House of Representatives Southern Democrats voted 93% against the bill and Southern Republicans voted 100% against the bill. In the Senate, 95% of Southern Democrats voted against it.

These were real Americans.

Some of these real Americans are far more publically vocal and visible and make their visibility very apparent by displaying swastika’s and KKK symbols to be “in your face” racists. That’s just part of free speech and assembly and perfectly allowable by intent of our laws. But it illustrates that this is just the front line racist real Americans in our nation. There are millions of millions of others who are not so public about it (except in the privacy of their own home and in the voting booth).

I don’t think people get that Trump isn’t the problem or issue here. He’s just a symbol of the issue and problem. He’s really no different in that regard than memorial Statues of A. Stephens, Jefferson Davis, or Robert E. Lee or any other traitorous general in the confederacy, except he can still speak..