Kenosha Racism, Police Mayhem Is Bi-partisan Project in City of Provencials

Update -  "As Kenosha authorities were preparing for a not completely welcome visit from President Donald Trump, the president took credit for the continued existence of the city," writes Deneen Smith in her lede paragraph in the Kenosha News, a journal written by white people for white people. 

 

This is not hyperbole by Ms. Smith; this is accurate reporting of communications from the White House.

But there is no Wisconsin City, with the possible exception of Racine, more unprepared to challenge Trump's lunacy, and the horror of this municipality's lethal racism.

Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley (D), Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian (D), and Kenosha County Exec Jim Kreuser (D), all white, are all vested in police assaults of black people. This mayhem does not just happen out of the ether.

Emissions from Kenosha Democratic officials are squeaks of let's "pull together," and let's "heal." These are pleas of getting back to normal where the police can and will do anything to black people for any or no reason.

The let's-heal now line is repeated by Gov Tony Evers (D) in a letter Trump asking him to stay away.

"I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing," Evers wrote in a letter to Trump. "I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together," reports the AP.

So, don't expect moral condemnations of the would-be murderer cop Rusten Sheskey or acknowledgement of Democratic Party complicity in racism, as Wisconsin moves forward together and overcomes division.

Don't expect statements from Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers (D) and Attorney General Joshua Kaul (D) that speak to and challenge the reality of being black and brown in Wisconsin.

Democrats here are ill-equipped, morally unsuited for the tasks at hand.

Said King 57 years ago at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom:

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

Fifty-seven years later, Wisconsin Democrats have a clear and well-crafted rejoinder for King: Hell with that.

And not one Democrat here dares speak against this Party of parrots and jellyfish.

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