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If you lived or worked in Allentown Pennsylvania during the 1980s you would sooner or later meet Mayor Joe Daddona. Joe was Mayor of Allentown nearly 30 years. If Allentown was a football team, its residents the players, Joe Daddona was the coach. Joe was a dependable champion for Allentown.
We should have seen it coming. Maybe some teachers did.
"Nikolas Cruz is not alone in transforming his embrace of Donald Trump into real-world violence. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that since 2014, at least 43 people have been killed, and more than 100 injured, by the so-called "alt-right" movement, with 2017 by far the most lethal year.
Donald Trump has unleashed a flood of white supremacist and other right-wing violence in the United States. This is a function of a larger sociopolitical dynamic. His right-wing movement -- and that of today's post-civil rights era Republican Party, more generally -- draws its strength from the racist lie that white people, especially white men, are the true victims of oppression in America. Trump has given his supporters permission to be violent: This is the most primitive form of social dominance behavior.
Trumpism is also a reminder that racism, on a fundamental level, is interpersonal and structural violence."
FROM:
Salon
Trump and Parkland: Vicious racism as permission for violence
The killer wore a MAGA hat and expressed the same views as Trump’s worst supporters. Think that’s a coincidence?
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
02.22.2018•4:59 AM
The 2018 surf is like never before. Some people will catch the wave. Josh is already standing up.
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