BIGOTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
By Divine Design News Service
Racial minorities, members of immigrant communities, women’s rights advocates, progressives and LBGT advocates are becoming increasing alarmed with the men that President-Elect Donald J. Trump has said that he would appoint to important executive posts.
Representatives from those groups say that they are troubled that Trump appointees have social and political agendas that are contradictory to American values, and would create a society in which minorities; immigrants, women and others would be pushed to the margins, if not harmed physically and mentally.
“A man associated with white supremacy will be the White House chief strategist,” wrote Nicholas Kristof, one of the country’s leading political thinkers. “A man rejected for a judgeship because of racism will be attorney general, and an Islamophobe, who has taken money from Moscow, will be national security advisor.”
Kristof said that Trump’s choice of Lt. General Michael Flynn as his national security advisor is particularly troubling. Former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was quoted as saying that Flynn was abusive to staff, did not work well with others and was a bad manager. In fact, Powell said called Trump’s choice “right-wing nutty.” Flynn, once reportedly said that Islam was tantamount to “cancer.”
Equally troubling is the choice of Alabama Senator Jeff Session as the nation’s Attorney General. Sessions, who was rejected as a federal judge in the 1980s because of his racial views, once was quoted as saying that he admired members of the Ku Klux Klan until “I found out that they smoked pot.”
Many legal experts say that they would be highly concerned if a man with Sessions’ record and views would be in control of enforcing the nation’s civil liberties and civil rights laws.
Deeply disturbing to many is the appointment of Steve Bannon, a former Wall Street banker and media personality, to a senior position in the White House, many political observers said. Bannon worked as a senior advisor in the Trump campaign, and engineered many of the “dirty tricks” and falsehoods that led to the defeat of Hillary Clinton. The news organization that Bannon headed before working for Trump once carried a headline that said, “Birth Control Make Women Unattractive and Crazy.”
Muslim Americans are highly alarmed that a Trump advisor spoke about creating a registry of Muslim Americans, and suggested that the government begin surveillance of Mosques, and Muslim communities. They are also concerned about Trump advisors who have suggested that internment camps could be created for Muslim Americans, similar to those that were created for Japanese Americans during World War II.
