It wouldn’t be sufficient to say the events last night shocked me. I curled into a ball on my bed and sobbed for most of the night.
I; like most minorities, are extremely worried about Donald Trump and rhetoric he is using at his meetings. Where before last week the word was out in my head as to whether he was really a fascist or not; that video by Inside Edition left no doubt in my mind. Donald Trump is a fascist and he is seeding extreme hate and pushing for violent actions upon minorities.
Now for the average white person the events last night or the things Trump has been saying may not be that serious. It just doesn’t effect you. No matter who gets elected your life will keep rolling on. As a latino I feel Trump and his platform directly puts my life and the life of my family in extreme danger.
We know that the GOP are not beyond having the police stop people for the color of their skin to find undocumented workers and jail them. That is a policy I fear; under a Trump presidency, would go nationwide. And with the hatred that Trump is instilling in the white population; I have additional fears that the kind of police harassment and killings that has previously only been a issue in African American communities will spread to Latino communities. This would directly affect me and my family. Where previously latinos were discriminated against and faced poverty. The kind of fear and hatred that African American communities experience had not been directed against the Latino community at a mass scale. It has been isolated in certain regions and zones; and even then the level of hate was never comparable to what African American experience. Trump is sending us backwards; bringing racial hate against communities that never experienced hate of this level before. And that is extremely scary.
Not only are the effect of Trumps fascism isolated to his supporters; Stormfront has grown incredibly bold and white power groups are growing at a record level. I can no longer sleep safe in bed knowing that the KKK or a similar organization will not arise again in America. I think now it’s not a question of if but when. And when these organizations do rise up the blood will be on the hand of none other than Donald Trump. His rhetoric is dangerous and damaging to our nation more so than any other political figure I can remember in recent history.
It is scary to me then; that Hillary failed to call out Trump on all of this. Just as scary to me was the fact that when asked at the debate all the GOP candidate refused to condemn violence at Trumps events. That the media has failed to call out Trump is doing. That no one seems to give a god damn anywhere amongst the powers that be that run the country. It seems to me like the Canary in the Coal Mine died months ago and nobody bothered to check on it.
Nobody in this country seems to have a single ounce of moral fibre left in their being. Hillary asks us to come together; fine. We need unity, no doubt. But the #1 instigator of this all is Trump and no one in the media or politics is calling him out the way he needs to be called out period. This is a man whose fascist rants are going to end up causing the deaths of many people and I am not exaggerating in any way or form when I say this. There are not words strong enough to describe how dangerous this man and his line of rhetoric are for this country.
So when I’m told to come together, to unify with Trumps supporters, because Donald Trump is spewing violent; racial rhetoric; my gut reaction is to tell you to go fuck yourself. My life is in danger because of this man as is the lives of millions of Latinos, African Americans, and Muslims. We can not capitulate to him or pretend that unity will be some kind of bandaid over the wound of violent racist thought he has injected into the minds of his followers.
We must respond with love undoubtedly. That I will agree on. But our first response should always be to denounce his criminal words in stronger tone and language. It has no place in our society, period. And the fact that I am told that I am the first one that must act; or rather react to change what this man is doing is a slap in the face to me and every minority in this country.