Bob Haslag
Jefferson City
Dear Editor:
After my last two submissions based on Mr. Trump’s real racism displayed throughout his life and repeatedly after that escalator ride labeling brown people as automatically rapists, gangsters and criminals, I can hear the mumbles of “Democrats and the race card.” I cannot blame him for every racist incident but can blame him and his enabling remarks for creating an atmosphere. Now, lest anyone doubt my premise that race bias is prevalent, I will list reports of racism not gleaned from any deep-dive but from cursory daily research. Simply, almost every African-American can awake, recognizing the possibility of being confronted by racial hate. I have 1,300 to choose from in a little over two years, almost none duplicative, and these are only instances involving African-Americans. As for anyone choosing to spout job growth, having a job has protected no person of color. Let’s begin! I also beg that no one attempt to minimize this issue with the false allegations of Jussie Smollett.
Reported Feb. 19, an Alabama newspaper editor demanded the return of the Ku Klux Klan, mass lynching and cleaning out Washington, D.C. Summarizing his thoughts, he printed, “We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.”
Reported Feb. 13, Georgia GOP Congressman Drew Ferguson proudly displayed in his office a Civil War white supremacist tome to the page reading, “The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race, and, I hope, will prepare and lead them to better things.”
Reported Feb. 13, a Richmond Heights, Missouri, waitress wearied of serving a black man and his family celebrating his birthday and demanded managers call police who then escorted the embarrassed family out of the restaurant.
Reported Feb. 12, a Trump-loving, Garner, N.C., substitute music teacher deviated from the lesson plan and insisted to her 10-year-old students that Martin Luther King was not assassinated but committed suicide.
Reported Feb. 11, a Florida white woman, stopped on the suspicion of DWI, told the black officer after hurling racial slurs that the KKK would visit his home and burn crosses on his lawn.
I can present these cases at this rate every week for 240 weeks or four and one-half years. Fox verifies each.