I am back to this topic again because it keeps coming up in the news. It is necessary for me to remind you that HATE is alive and well in America.
The sickening hatred of all Non-White Christian Americans has never been worse than it is today. They are racists. (Racist definition: a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another.)
When the president of the United States promotes hatred for minorities it provides the haters with the encouragement they crave.
“You Will Not Replace Us” is a white supremacist slogan that became popular in early 2017, as did its acronym version, YWNRU. The slogan appeared on white supremacist flyers, banners and graffiti in a variety of places in the first six months of 2017, gaining wider attention when white supremacists used the phrase at several rallies held in Charlottesville, Virginia, culminating in the large and violent Unite the Right event in August 2017. Many in that march were chanting “Jews will not replace us.”
Now the focus is on Asian Americans. The hate against them was promoted by former president Donald Trump who called the COVD-19 virus the China virus. The haters have seen that as a signal to attack them.
The history of hate of Asian Americans is not new. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
A total of 11,507 people of German ancestry were interned during war II, comprising 36.1% of the total internments under the US Justice Department’s Enemy Alien Control Program. By contrast, an estimated 110,000–120,000 Japanese-Americans were forcibly relocated from the West Coast and incarcerated in internment camps run by the US War Department’s War Relocation Authority.
2018 marked an anniversary if a massacre of 15 Mexicans in el Paso, Texas. The slaughter, which was carried out by white Texas Rangers, US soldiers, and local vigilantes, was justified by labeling the Mexican American families “bandits” and criminals. It wouldn’t be the las.t On The August 3, 2019 a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, which left 22 people dead, appeared to be the deadliest terror attack and hate crime against Latinos in recent American history.
The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was a mass shooting that took place on October 27, 2018, at the Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Charleston church shooting (also known as the Charleston church massacre)[6][7][8] was a mass shooting on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina, in which nine African Americans were killed during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dylann Roof, the killer, was a 21-year-old white supremacist, had attended the Bible study before he committed the shooting. He was found to have targeted members of this church because of its history and stature.
President Joe Biden may have empathy for those who have been attacked but it will take more than showing compassion to alter the hate in so many hearts.
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