Leonard Pitts: Trump Needs To Own The Hatred He's Unleashed

[babylonsister]

http://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-needs-own-hatred-unleashed/

Leonard Pitts Jr.
Trump Needs To Own The Hatred He’s Unleashed
November 19, 2016 5:10 pm


A few days ago, a black woman I know got a text from a friend who asked what she’d be wearing “to the slave auction in January.”

Another friend, who is white, wrote that she is “seriously picturing trains to Auschwitz. I can’t convey how seriously.”

These are the kinds of conversations I find myself having in a world suddenly grown ominous and strange. You try to keep a level head, to remind yourself and others that the tragedies alluded to — slavery and the Holocaust — are unique. They are not going to repeat. We must not be too alarmist.

But the hits just keep on coming.

The other day, my brother reported seeing a pickup truck emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag tooling down the road in L.A. I lived in that city for 34 years, he’s lived there 47. Neither of us can recall ever seeing that before. A few days later, he tells me some random white lady screamed “Nigger!” at him — just that word, no other commentary — because she didn’t like his driving.

So it goes in these first days of the Trump era.

You want to say it’s just your imagination inflating random badness into a narrative of racist white bully boys and girls feeling free to vent their hatred now that one of their own has come to power.

One tends to see what one is looking for, after all.

But if this is just imagination, there’s a lot of it going around.

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And I am reminded of German Jews who watched a monumental evil gather itself against them, all the while assuring one another that things weren’t as bad as they seemed, that their country would soon return to its senses. Meantime, the boxcars were lining up.

To recall their response to a world suddenly grown ominous and strange is to wonder at our own. Maybe we are too alarmist.

Or maybe we’re not alarmist enough.

[uponit7771]

1. He owns it and unleash even more when all is said and done

[iluvtennis]

2. Don the Con does indeed to own the unrest...

...It was ignited from 18 months of all of his divisive rhetoric. A simple statement of "Stop it" on 60 Minutes isn't sufficient. It's time for one of those rallies for him to actually show he is a leader and start bringing folks together. But alas, that's just a pipe dream cuz he doesn't have the chutzpah to do so.

[MFM008]

3. He has no idea how much

Some of us hate him.