Last week, white supremacist James Harris Jackson traveled to NYC to fuel his violent, racist urge to kill black people. He ended up killing 66-year-old Timothy Caughman by stabbing him with his sword. Jackson is now facing multiple charges, including murder as terrorism and murder as a hate crime.
To most people with more than two heart cells to rub together, this is a tragedy. An innocent man brutally murdered by a man (who had his own shit to sort out) simply due to the color of his skin.
No one deserves that.
Unfortunately, we have white nationalist, KKK-endorsed assholes occupying the White House who can’t quite see that—they wouldn’t dare speak up against a racist murderer. When WH Press Secretary Sean Spicer was directly asked to specifically denounce Caughman’s murder, he didn't quite follow through. Watch:
If you’re able to count the few specific instances the president said bullshit lies about not being racist, then he’s not doing a good enough job to show he isn’t racist. It’s also such a basic excuse to say that Trump’s first joint session address started with an attempt to express support for equality—the rest of his speech was racist, xenophobic drivel anyway.
And you may have noticed—to add insult to injury, Spicer thought it was appropriate to take the time away from condemning the death of a black man at the hand of a racist so he can tell us to be nicer to racists right wingers instead. ThinkProgress explains:
Instead of addressing the murder, Spicer went on a number of bizarre tangents. He told Ryan that there has been “a rush to judgment in a lot of other cases,” specifically anti-semitic attacks, where people have demanded Trump condemn the violence. Later, Spicer said, people have learned that the attacks were not perpetrated by “people on the right.”
Of course, Ryan wasn’t asking the White House to comment because Jackson was a member of the “right” but because he stands accused of a vicious racially-motivated murder.
Spicer also noted, somewhat inexplicably, that Trump had discussed “crime and education” with members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
*sigh*