Trump’s Dog Whistle Trumpet
Joe Biden uttered some of the most truthful words ever spoken in a campaign
“If you vote for Trump you ain’t black” he said, and many rose up to complain
In my opinion this is political correctness carried to absurdity
Considering Trump’s overt racial perversity.
Racism is embedded in his history and DNA in fact
Woodie Guthrie pointed out Old Man Trump discrimination
Saying “Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam”…an abomination. (*)
Fred made fortunes building post WWII housing
And was also allowed to collect the rents
But he discriminated against blacks at great cost
The government sued and Fred Trump lost.
With Donald racism is very much alive
Considering his vilification of the Central Park Five
With full page ads before and even after their exoneration
He attacked them with great vituperation
And the absurd Obama Birther polemic
Provided his entre into electoral politics
(According to Adam Curtis its genesis
Arose in Putin’s Soviet Russia)
We all remember Charlottesville where
Trump backed the racists by saying there
Were “good people on both sides”.
But clearly the violence on one side resides.
He traveled to Dallas to discuss police actions and matters race
But manages to exclude a place
For the black sheriff, black district attorney and black police chief
Not and oversight and not a gesture for obtaining racial relief
More recently Trump’s dog whistles have become a blaring Trumpet
The Convention celebration has moved to Jacksonville to stay (**)
On the anniversary of the August 27, 1960 Ax Handle Saturday where 200 whites beat blacks with ax handles and metal baseball bats.
And he plans a great rally in Tulsa on June Teenth on the anniversary of (June 19, 1865)
When blacks finally learned they were free
Based on Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
And freedom for black first came alive.
And although he is advancing the event by one day
Stating his rally is a celebration by white racists hordes
He can’t undo the damage with a few disingenuous words
No the time and place of Tulsa cuts like a veritable sword.
But this will be a double insult for blacks in Tulsa Trump has mastered
As this will be when Tulsa acknowledges the anniversary of the Tulsa massacre
Where hundreds were killed and 32 blocks with firebombs devastatingly employed
Where thriving Greenwood (known as Black Wall Street) was totally destroyed.
But Trumps actions are consonant with Republican Southern Strategy traditions that abound
Reagan strategically started his 1980 campaign at the Neshoba County Fairground
Near Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1980 by stating: “I believe in states’ rights”
Where Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were murdered helping the voting rights to fight.
For Reagan this was a coded Dog Whistle its intent eminently clear.
But Trumps actions blare out as an amplified Trumpet
Signaling to his racist followers in language plain
I’m with you, bring you guns…we can fight the Civil War again.
So Joe Biden was 100% correct, the evidence is crystal clear – he shouldn’t look back.
Although Trump proclaims he has done much (like Lincoln) for blacks
The contrary evidence can not be washed away.
Trump’s a racist and will be such until his dying day.
And just in case in your mind any doubts linger
The evidence is indisputable
Trump has just given the black community a gigantic finger
(*) Will Kaufman: Quartz. Woody Guthrie really did not like Donald Trump’s racist dad. January 21, 2016. Kaufman spent time in the Woodie Guthrie Center in Tulsa, and many of Guthrie’s songs on racial injustice and more details on Fred Trump who he came to detest when he live in Fred Trump’s Beach Haven housing project.
(**) I have discussed the above in the setting of the Coronavirus epidemic (The Republican Cult Meets Jonestown) where Trump by having large rallies is flaunting CDC Guidelines and in Jacksonville where COVID-19 cases are massively ascendant is potentially exposing his cult-like sheep to disease and possible death. Clearly he is aware of this, but does not care, for all participants are being required to sign a waiver releasing Trump from legal responsibility for any disease they may acquire. Clearly, reelection is his only concern.
Howard P. Charman, MD 6-13-2020