I’m starting to see more posts on social media from friends sharing the loss of friends and love ones to #COVID19 and it’s heartbreaking. Eight months later and here we are again and with even more significance.
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My take on today’s #MillionMAGAMarch has much more to do with American media and our own social movements for justice than the alt-right. Okay here we go.
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Sometime this morning, a quarter million Americans will have now perished from
#COVID-19 in just eight months. This includes the deaths of at least 1 out of every 875 Black people in the United States according to@apmreports.Afficher cette discussion -
How has the Trump administration decided to respond? By encouraging a super spreader event in D.C., a city with a significant Black population. He will sacrifice anyone, including his own worshippers to distract this nation from his absolute failure of an administration.
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By early reports (unconfirmed), the Trump-centered white nationalist movement and it’s alt-right coalition has put nearly 10,000 individuals on the streets of D.C. While that at first glance may seem significant, let’s take a closer look that suggests something very different.
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The turnout is actually surprisingly underwhelming when you look at the charged atmosphere created by Donald Trump’s week long disinformation campaign.
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Let’s look at the facts. First. Fox News and other media outlets have been giving unfettered credence to disinformation about stolen elections for a straight week;
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Second. It took a week to organize ten thousand out of 71 Million voters. In contrast. Biden celebrations had more people on the streets of America within hours; and
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Third. Trump hinted he might personally appear at today’s March and rally and his rallies are known to generate large turnouts. Yet.
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Despite this. Only about 10,000 people appeared. Trump easily pulls 15,000 to 20,000 people to his rallies on average. What is happening in D.C. is much less of a turnout than what should be expected. The only people not noticing this is a media addicted to the adrenaline rush.
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It does serve one purpose. It distracts us from building towards the transition to address
#COVID19 deaths, unemployment and unrestrained racism and stops the media from asking these real questions of our elected officials.Afficher cette discussion -
Today’s
#MillionMAGAMarch2020 is a not so veiled attempt to change the narrative and it only works if you let it. Media should be asking these supposed alt-right leaders of the march what is their plan to address#COVID19, unemployment and political violence.Afficher cette discussion -
The rest of us should get back to remembering something else. A pharaoh only has power when people give it to him. Stop giving our power away. Stop pretending this is anything more than a violent temper tantrum to overthrow democracy and a weak one at that. -30-
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