Racial intolerance remains perhaps the single largest
obstacle ever to human evolution. This
isn't because we are incapable of overcoming it, but rather because we are not
permitted to overcome it. Racism
and related issues such as immigration &
poverty are just too effective as tools to separate us and keep us at one
another's throats; and as we all know, "if it ain't broke don't fix it."
Just spend an hour watching mixed ethnicity children at a
day care and you will know that racial intolerance is not something we are born
with, it's something we're conditioned into with rhetoric,
propaganda and outright lies.
In the bloody wake of Charlottesville ,
Donald Trump has emerged as the second
president of the confederacy and the new face of white supremacy. Trump set the tone the very first day of his
election campaign with his now famous remarks about Mexicans being "rapists, thieves and thugs." That first hateful speech should have been
his last, but he survived it, as he
has every other wrong headed racist thing he's uttered on his surreal journey
to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
To better understand where Trump is taking us; we first must
look at where he comes from, specifically his father; Frederick Christ Trump. The New
York real estate developer often claimed he was Swedish in an effort to conceal his German bloodlines.
In 1927 the New York Times reported that Fred Trump was
arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally, for fighting with the police. Some years later he was also investigated by
the justice department for racial
policies at his housing developments.
It is revealing to look into the beliefs and actions of Fred Trump because on several occasions Donald Trump has said his father was his
hero and role model in life, so it figures he would adopt his fathers racial
intolerance and other beliefs. Looking
farther into the Trump family tree we discover that Frederick Drumpf,
Donald's grandfather was a German immigrant and by all accounts at
the time; a pimp, and drug dealer, who made his fortune running
brothels and opium dens. This is
where the Trump empire began, just for the record. It helps to keep our perspective in the
nervous now. Trump family values.
Getting back to Trump's dad, turns out he was something of a
weasel in more than physical appearance.
He was such an unabashed racist that the famous folk singer Woody
Guthrie came to hate him, and expressed those feelings in many songs
which may have been some of the first protest
music. While Woody wrote and sang
many songs about Frederick Trump, the one history remembers the most was "Old
Man Trump."
Yes indeed, it does seem that Trump's daddy is his role
model in business matters, while in his personal life he models himself more
after his gramps. Donald Trump has no
special business acumen at all; he just copies everything his daddy did, with
money daddy gave him. Proof once again
that the slime always rises to the top.
Back in Woody Guthrie's time; protesting social injustice
with music was about all they had to push back with. There was no public radio or internet
platform from which to engage and enrage the powerful elite, and over time,
Woody included Trump's daddy in many of his protest songs.
Back in the 60's you could hear protest music any time of
the day on your radio; but those days are forever gone now with "clear channel" canned music for the
masses. Most of you still don't realize
that all of the newspapers and radio/TV
stations in America
are owned by just six corporations.
Protest music takes a somewhat different form today,
specifically the format of the YouTube video where anyone who wants can become
a troubadour for truth, and rail against the social injustice & tyrants of today. This is why issues like
Net Neutrality are so important,
because they are the attempts by those six corporations to own & control content on the internet as well
as news and television. If they ever
succeed in taking over the internet, it will be the end of free speech as we
have known it.
On the home front Trump is doing his absolute best to ignite
the flames of a race war; while internationally he just cannot wait for the
provocation that will permit him to nuke North
Korea into the bronze age. We can all just sit around watching to see
what happens next; or we can stand up for ourselves and remove this deranged
toddler from office before he creates damage we cannot walk away from. What's your pleasure?
Our self-appointed
leaders have been using racial intolerance and hatred to keep us divided and
hateful for all of our lives, going back generations. It never changes, they just keep driving
those wedges into society to keep us at each other instead of going for the
ones in control. You'd think we would
learn after a few generations and wise up; but alas we do not, and cannot so
long as we permit bottom feeders with no education to lead the chant of hatred
from the highest office in the land.
© 2017 full re-post with permission only
Inspired by Woody Guthrie's "Old Man Trump" I went searching for songs protesting
the old
man's son, and found some. Actually I
found quite a few, and
I would be lazy & remiss if I didn't share the best results
with you here.
Woody Guthrie ~ "Old Man Trump"
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From R.E.M. ~ "Final Straw"
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From Roger Waters ~ "Run Like Hell"
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From Roger Waters ~ "Another brick in the Wall"
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From Roger Waters ~ "Run Like Hell"
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From Roger Waters ~ "Another brick in the Wall"
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"Sympathy for the Devil"
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From Joan Baez ~ "Nasty Man"
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From Bruce Springsteen ~ "That's what makes us Great"
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"Mr Tangerine Man"
From Bruce Springsteen ~ "That's what makes us Great"
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"Mr Tangerine Man"
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