A Surge In Hate Crimes Overtly Encouraged By The President.
“Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, Trump called racial justice protesters “thugs” and amplified claims that demonstrators were terrorists.
”When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” the President tweeted, invoking a phrase used by a 1960’s-era Miami police chief who has been roundly criticized as a racist based on his tough policing efforts in the city’s Black neighborhoods. Trump’s tweet was later flagged by Twitter for glorifying violence.”
The hate crimes surge was expected with the President using racist language to describe the horrifying Covid-19 pandemic and using similar language to describe the George Floyd protesters among many other instances of hate speech. Being full of hate comes easy for a significant percentage of the population. Overcoming these entrenched ideologies is the onerous part and will be the most difficult and all encompassing task that confronts the new administration starting right about now.
