Bigotry, it appears, is more popular than ever. It's only a matter of time until someone is killed or critically injured in one of these Trump rallies.
This is America. 2016.
That's Shaun King. Read this article. Its terrifying.
When your father is arrested at a Klan rally, you endorse the ravings of neo-nazis and nativists, your sons have meetings with pro slavery groups, and you are willing to use the force of government to target minority groups, when you are openly endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and every Aryan Nation group in the country, and when your supporters wish the South had won the Civil War, you're a white supremacist.
So if you a person who endorses, votes for, or in any way supports Donald Trump, you are a white supremacist too.
Now, I won't entertain all the various explanations and caveats and blah blah blah from people who want to deny it. You're free to think and vote as you please. You don't need to explain anything to me or anyone else. But I am also free to call you exactly what you are and to convince others to agree with me to the best of my ability.
If you do not support and endorse white supremacy then you need to decide whose side you're on. There is no middle ground here for all the people who will be targeted by Trump's fascism. So if you oppose racism, fascism, and white supremacy, there is no choice. You MUST oppose Trump or support him. Anyone waffling on Trump cannot be considered persuadable. They are the ones who wont stand up in the face of fascism and there is no point in seeing them any differently than Trump's enthusiastic supporters.
There are young people, right now, making their voices heard by marching bravely into the belly of the beast. For that they are being bullied and beaten. It is only a matter of time before one is killed.
We have to decide if this country goes backwards or forwards on this issue, the issue of America's original sin, the issue for which we have fought a civil war, and that is the issue of are we all created equal or not? Either this country will live up to its core rationale for being, or it won't. Trump supporters have made up their minds.
You've got to make up yours.