Americans need to hear about racism in America and Beto isn't holding back. Now is not the time to remain silent on racism given the racist President whose words have escalated hate crimes every year for the past three years, while locations where Trump holds rallies experience increased violence and hate crimes.
Beto O'Rourke has blown open the President's cover. He has stripped off Trump's white hood and cloak. Media and voters are fully immersed in a long overdue national dialogue about racism and racial injustice, raw and naked.
People want greater understanding, not silence. Republicans don't want to talk about race, unless it increases their power. White evangelicals don't want to talk about race. Maybe it makes them uncomfortable, like God disapproves, leaving guilt and defensive behavior.
They're 'so sick' of hearing this Beto guy talk about race. So sick of it. Their President has been talking about race since 2015, the wrong way, and WE are SO SICK of hearing him.
Make these hypocrites own their embrace of a pussy-grabbing racist President. (Also, godless, soulless, classless and dickless).
Beto's speech puts Trump's racism in historical context (now approaching 2 million views), well worth the listen in these unparalleled times:
Look at our guy glow in this speech, Presidential (never mind Senatorial)!
It's epic! It's history before our eyes! See the full speech here:
Voters are listening. They're tuning into Beto. He's on the rise. Threatened Republicans have to resort to the latest GOP (Democrats are also using it) smear that Beto's father told Beto to use a Spanish sounding name to prepare for life as a politician in El Paso.
The truth is, growing up in a Hispanic community, Robert O'Rourke got the nickname as a child, a little boy with no political calculations. His classmates used 'Beto' because it's a common nickname for Robert.
I reject the idea that a white candidate can't talk about race. Trump does every day, but in the wrong way. There must be a right way. RFK. JFK. LBJ.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Can we outright dismiss Beto's critque of racism because he's not a POC? Is the only way we understand eachother possible if we share the same identity? So we can't understand and defend people who are different from us? Our identity disqualifies us from understanding, unity and collective defense?
What kind of democracy do we live in if all groups are separate and can't identify with the other? A confused one. A silent one. A weak one, indeed, unprepared for those who talk about race in the wrong way. Trump filled this space. And now they don't want to talk about it.
Republicans are rattled. They're on record now with this dangerous, racist monster they worship.
Their only defense is to project their racism and white privilege onto Beto because Beto has weakened the top of their ticket/their whole party by calling out the President's racism, connecting it to cruelty at the border where kids suffer in cages and 7 have died, hate crimes on the rise like Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, Charleston, El Paso, and homegrown terrorism that FBI and Homeland Security warned Trump and Barr about for 1 year (both ignored it, focusing instead on enraging the white voter base to crank out votes, enabling and inciting terrorist attacks like the one in El Paso). Massacres in the name of white supremacists like the President.
#TrumpTerror #Impeachable. I have been thinking lately and hoping one of the more devastating Articles of Impeachment will charge Trump with failure to protect this country from enemies, foreign and domestic (terrorism). Beto is campaigning on a stronger Democracy that overcomes Trump's failures and his campaign likely has a pipeline to Pelosi. That's my hope.
The American people deserve this conversation. Media will have to adjust to a President on the run.
Republicans,
America is bleeding because your racist President is stoking these divisions, not the kid with the Spanish nickname. We're all less safe because of Him.
Own it! Own your racist God!
Love him or hate him, Beto is taking down Trump.
Please help fuel the fight!
Join the campaign!
Make Racism Wrong Again!