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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cTrump Derangement Syndrome,\u201d a phenomenon coined by Trump\u2019s former attorney Michael Cohen, is now in full swing.\u00a0 What more can be said about the President\u2019s actions of late?\u00a0 Holding up desperately needed pandemic relief, vetoing the defense bill, which includes pay raises for the military, and taking advantage of his pardoning power by letting his cronies out of prison, are all beyond the pale.\u00a0 But as a slaveholder\u2019s son, I feel obligated to comment on any matters related to racism and white supremacy, of which there has been no shortage under President Trump.\u00a0 Pardoning the likes of Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Trump\u2019s vile, amoral in-law, Charles Kushner (what Jared\u2019s father did was downright disgusting, even by the standards of that white-color crime family!) is an obscene abuse of power, but his pardoning of four Blackwater mercenaries, who in 2007 slaughtered 14 Iraqi civilians, is even worse.\u00a0 The implication is that white men have the right to kill non-white people with impunity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fairness to our overtly racist president, the Pentagon should never have hired mercenaries to help fight America\u2019s wars in the Middle East\u2014it was bound to happen when our country\u2019s all-volunteer army got stretched too thin\u2014but that\u2019s a separate topic I\u2019ll take up separately. The wholesale killing of non-white people by our country\u2019s military force represents the same mentality that was prevalent at West Point when I was a cadet in the years before the Civil War. Back then it was a given that white Americans of European descent were a superior race. We considered our Mexican neighbors to the South to be nothing but mongrels. Most African Americans were still enslaved in the Southern states, and according to the Supreme Court\u2019s 1857 Dredd Scott Decision were property rather than human beings entitled to the rights of citizens. American Indians, the continent\u2019s indigenous people, were considered inhuman savages to be killed as necessary. Understand that George Armstrong Custer, of Little Bighorn fame, was one of my fellow cadets; talk about (one man\u2019s) Manifest Destiny!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA Pardon for the Blackwater Killers Means that ONLY White Lives Matter!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n