Donald Trump Whitesplains Milwaukee and Race to White Cheers

Visit West Bend, Wisconsin; decent, wholesome white
people away from the unpleasantness of Milwaukee

Traveling to West Bend, (White), Wisconsin for Some Home Cooking

- Audience member, Jack Beck of West Bend, said he hoped West Bend’s black population would not increase -

The spectacle of Scott Walker joining Donald Trump in Washington County Wisconsin to preach law and order to a white audience is cause for ridicule and if you watched the talk, a less-than-restful sleep.

"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went to the suburbs Tuesday night to talk about America's inner cities, court African-American voters and lay out a plan to restore law and order in the country. 'I'm asking for the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future,'" Trump said in West Bend last night, (Glauber, Herzog and Schwarz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) .

Wisconsin Republicans, after gerrymandering the state legislative districts, have achieved electoral success the last five years through naked appeals to white resentment against blacks, and what's with all these brown-skinned faces now-a-days, don't we have enough of them too?

Trump's downward political trajectory cannot be altered though, and with Scott Walker Trump's awkward posturing on social justice and race is as credible as Walker's commitment to public education and Trump's knowledge of public policy. Republicans take about 69 percent of the vote in Washington County in statewide elections and the turn-out-the-white-racist vote can't get much better, (Wisconsin Elections Commission).

Trump's address came last night after 9:00 P.M. local time, about a hour and half late, but Trump's law-and-order exhortations telecast on CNN and MSNBC appeared to go over well with the 2,000 assembled white folk, (Alcindor, NYT).

"Trump declined to hold a public event in Milwaukee, where 40 percent of residents are black, and instead decided to speak here, where 95 percent of residents are white and where many had said they hoped Mr. Trump’s rally would be a chance to celebrate the police," writes the Times' Alcindor.

Alcindor offers a quote from Jack Beck, white and proud of it from West Bend, Wisconsin:

Jack Beck, 65, a retired bricklayer who lives in West Bend, said he planned to vote for Mr. Trump and did not blame him for making a low-key stop in Milwaukee, given the city’s racial tensions.

'Every night in Milwaukee, there is someone being shot, and they make nothing of that until a cop is involved, and then all of a sudden it’s always blamed on the cop,' said Mr. Beck, who added that he hoped West Bend’s black population would not increase. He tied much of the unrest in Milwaukee to his belief that black residents do not want to work hard and instead want to use police killings to get handouts from the government.

Jack Becks are everywhere in Wisconsin.

Blacks, their kind is mostly in Milwaukee and Dane County, but you know "they" breed and "they" can move. And "they" want to vote without knowing nothing, farking arseholes.

First Match Struck in Milwaukee

The Negroes are rioting again, 1967, 2016 and
getting worse. Milwaukee Journal cover
from July 31, 1967

Hey, black and brown folks, you get the feeling you're not wanted around here?

Black-brown lives in Milwaukee do matter: Wisconsin politicians have been using resentment against THEM to build up political dynasties, with a lot of help from white billionaires.

The scope of the current Republican project is so ambitious, even now five years into the Lost Decade most people have no idea what is afoot in Wisconsin, (Eidelson, Salon), (Rowen, The Political Environment).

Among most Wisconsin Republicans, black and brown people are illegitimate figures casting votes at the ballot box.

The same could be said of black and brown folks behind the wheel, at a store, walking, getting their all-so-black hair cut, breathing and taking up our oxygen.

Embarrassed, awkward encounters with minorities by Wisconsin Republican whites have been replaced with open hostility, becoming more brazen as a tactic in itself as the fires of Milwaukee are a milestone in the Republican project. Stoking fires and resentment is no accident.

Whites know Scott Walker and the Wisconsin DoJ are Republican operations who will back up nearly anything inflicted onto minorities.

Municipal and county police units have become para-military operations whose police unions back Republican politicians while on the streets police inflict trauma, imprisoning or killing targets of opportunity with impunity, if the moment and feeling are right.

Harassment, tactical blasting of sirens followed by laughter is reality inflicted by white, Republican cops, if you're lucky.

This is Wisconsin - 2016. Milwaukee is just the most visible and tragic manifestation of white racism, a statewide phenomenon.

The great migrations of the 20th century may begin anew, this time from the northern United States to North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

Each encroachment, each incursion cutting into black and brown lives, (and significantly white single women raising children), has been met with a combination of incomprehension, apathy and stunned silence as Republicans probe the moral and political lassitude of non-racists in Wisconsin.

White liberal racists have a partner in racism as never before in modern history.

Venice Williams of Alice's Garden and The Body and Soul Healing Arts Center, casts a critical look at the fires in Milwaukee as whites are explaining away concerns any decent human being has about the targeting of black and browns in Wisconsin.

From Ms. Williams:

Scott Walker Says It's "Ridiculous" to Meet with Black Lives Matter

Fresh off a bizarre performance at the Des Monies Register soapbox in which Scott Walker refused to listen to any questions from black citizens gathered, and bellowed he is not "intimidated," a flustered Scott Walker veered into another bizarre response when asked if he would meet with members of Black Lives Matter.

"Asked at a ‘Politics and Eggs’ breakfast forum in Manchester on Friday if he would take some time to sit down with the African-American activists, Walker called the question 'ridiculous,' mocking the civil rights group," reports Raw Story (Boggioni), citing a dispatch from the Daily Mail (UK). (CNN) (Capital Times)

"I’m here to talk to voters in New Hampshire about things that matter,' Walker told the Daily Mail reporter.

No follow-up yet from the Walker campaign, but observers must be wondering why Walker didn't just say, 'sure, I would be happy to sit down and talk.' Video is below:

Scott Walker's Corrupt Rise in a Picture

State Capitol square in Madison, Wisconsin - Jason Louise Huberty (Facebook)
The prevailing political sentiment is that Scott Walker is finished in Wisconsin
politics amid secretly held wishes by progressives Walker wins the nomination
of the Republican Party for the presidency. Walker is a lightweight, and word
is spreading fast across the political class in GOP circles. A Bradley Foundation
appointment awaits Walker after he is caught in a listening session or asked
a follow-up about public policy and ethics. Walker cannot think on his feet,
and other character flaws are legion, material that is available on video.
Koch money, all the money in the world from plutocrats, cannot turn
the straw man into gold, hence Walker will be instructed to bow out
when he becomes a liability, and rightwing billionaires become bored.

Scott Walker's Warrant from God

Candidates running for political office claiming mandate from supernatural-religious forces typically are not widely found in classical liberal America outside of the Bible Belt and rural sectors of the states.

Scott Walker is an outlier, a product of segregationist white suburbia of the greater Milwaukee urban region and its toxic racial politics (Mal Contends) (MacGillis, The New Republic).

An authoritarian and vindictive lifelong politician, Walker's claim of the Almighty's blessing ought to alarm Americans. Racism and God do not equate with a pluralistic America.

Check out Scott Walker tells supporters: ‘I am certain’ my 2016 presidential run ‘is God’s plan for me,’ (Dolan, Raw Story). [Originally reported in RightWingWatch by Peter Montgomery.]

This is a 10-alarm fire.

Housing Apartheid Blasted—Segregation, Racism Produced Scott Walker

The New York Times has an editorial implying not much has changed in the last five decades in the dedication of white American racists perpetrating segregated housing.

Worth noting is Wisconsin's Scott Walker is a political product of the virulent racism of the greater Milwaukee urban region, as GOP appeals to racism accelerate. (MacGillis, TNR) (Mal Contends)

As a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, I would alert readers a race riot this summer is a distinct possibility, as Milwaukee police remain a largely Republican and vile brand, and white Republican  hate radio and Scott Walker drum up racist taunts almost daily.

Notes the Times:

[R]age and unrest was thoroughly explained five decades ago by President Lyndon Johnson’s National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission. The commission’s report was released in 1968 — the year that the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. touched off riots in 125 cities — and contains the most candid indictment of racism and segregation seen in such a document, before or since.

The commission told white Americans what black citizens already knew: that the country was 'moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.' It linked the devastating riots that consumed Detroit and Newark in 1967 to residential segregation that had been sustained and made worse by federal policies that concentrated poor black citizens in ghettos. It also said that discrimination and segregation had become a threat to 'the future of every American.'

Could be a really fun summer in Milwaukee this year, but residents contacted say the possibility of violence against white racists as openly racist whites inflame the region is just assumed a part of living in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bad Night for Racists at the Oscars, and in Madison, Wisconsin

Musicians John Legend and Common won an Oscar last night for their beautiful Glory from Selma.

Locally, racists at the Madison, Wisconsin Meadowood Neighborhood Association used the weekend to applaud the arrest of a black man for pot-related charges, as the prison-industrial state and the concentration of black men into prisons and jails continues unabated.

One thing that can bring Scott Walker and law-and-order democrats together are hate-inspired neighborhood associations like Meadowood, cheering on the arrests of Wisconsin black folks.

"Wisconsin’s prisons now house about eight times as many inmates as they did in 1970, and the state has the dubious distinction of incarcerating a higher percentage of black men than any other state. Walker’s strategy on prison-related issues exposed his fundamental political approach," notes Roger Bybee in AlterNet.

Typical Madison, Wisconsin entries to the neighborhood associations like Meadowood on Madison's southwest side read: "Our Neighborhood Community Police On (sic) the Job.‏" Arresting black people. Vile.

Black Lives do matter, on the southwest side not so much, and the work for equality and civil rights continues from Ferguson to Madison.

From last night at the Oscars:

Milwaukee Hate Radio, Segregation and Scott Walker Exposed

In the lede for The New Republic cover piece entitled, The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker, Milwaukee hate radio personality, Mark Belling is featured in this fact-laden piece that Republicans fear and loathe more than even a young, black man walking down the street.

Alec MacGillis' piece is supported with facts, data and analysis that presents to the nation the greater Milwaukee urban segregation and race baiting that have been the bain of Wisconsin politics for decades.

Another one of the hate radio stars featured in the piece is Charlie Sykes who retorts that MacGillis simply wrote a hit piece, a "heavy stew of urban legend, reheated unionista talking points, cherry-picked anecdotes and the usual journalistic hackery."

Alright, following is one ingredient featured from the heavy stew of urban legend that Sykes implied never actually happened in which Belling mocks Wisconsin's first African-American member of Congress, Gwen Moore: "Gwen Moore simply occupies a seat. A very large seat. ... The woman is so fat and out of shape, she literally can’t get to the floor to vote anymore. ... It’s time to vote and here’s Gwen: ‘I’m out of breath! Blew-ee, blew-ee!’ (Here Belling affected the exertions of an overweight black woman.)" Typical Belling, make up your own mind if it's toxic and racist.

White Wisconsin Racists Prefer the Term, 'Articulate Conservative'

Scott Walker on cover of The New Republic

Update: Comment from one jbkburack in The New Republic (TNR): "To TNR and its fans, we out here are all flyover yahoos. They think we will not call them out and they can get away with total garbage like this, but we have called them out, and you can be sure Scott Walker will a lot more yet before he's done."

Scott Walker calling someone out more often? Maybe at his next unscripted town hall meeting, the fact that Scott Walker refuses such events of no relevancy to Wisconsin Republicans.
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White Wisconsin reacts to Alec MacGillis' The New Republic piece on Scott Walker and racism with disbelief and denial

MacGillis has reported on racism in the greater Milwaukee urban area, in Scott Walker's campaign, in Milwaukee hate radio, all furthered by massive infusions of Koch and other rightwing money.

Republicans are shocked to the point of disbelief. Actually, they deny the facts or insipid accusations.

Dan O'Donnell of WISN sets everyone straight: "This stupidity is as inaccurate as it is insipid. Walker won in 2010 because he presented a clearer and more articulate conservative message in the primary and then relatively easily defeated Tom Barrett in the general election because of widespread distaste for liberalism as it existed under eight years of Governor Doyle and a little over a year of President Obama (and his stunningly unpopular health care reform)."

MacGillis, damn east coast type, coming over to our side of the country and telling everyone that Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha counties are racist and segregated from Milwaukee.

Charlie Sykes of White Wisconsin offers this reaction at WTMJ:

"As hit jobs go, this is pretty run-of-the-mill, except for its length and the fact that it is the cover story of the once-prestigious New Republic:  The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker: A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican star."

The unsubtlety of the headline pretty much gives you the feel for this over-the-top and meandering trip through the fever swamps of anti-Walkerism.  Suffice it to say that writer Alec MacGillis establishes that he has frequented every anti-Walker website and twitter feed... and has fed deeply. His article is a heavy stew of urban legend, reheated unionista talking points, cherry-picked anecdotes and the usual journalistic hackery."

Well, I'm glad that's cleared up. For a moment I had thought that attacks on voting rights and racist jokes, and attacks on the city of Milwaukee are per se racist acts.

One thing Sykes knows is how to be subtle when discussing them.

MacGillis also implies Scott Walker can't think on his feet. From the white perspective, I guess MacGillis missed all those unscripted town hall question-and-answer sessions.

On the other hand the fact that Scott Walker refuses unscripted town hall question-and-answer sessions might suggest something about the candidate chosen by God to lead Wisconsin, America, who knows where Walker can go with his articulate conservative message.

Scott Walker Gets Skewered in The New Republic

The notion that Scott Walker is a presidential pretender, a small-time provincial riding vile bigotries as a vehicle up the Wisconsin Republican Party is gaining increasing currency.

Alec MacGillis has the most perceptive analysis I've seen in the national political press in today's The New Republic: The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker, A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican.

Existing racism in the greater Milwaukee region and a life steeped in religious fundamentalism made Scott Walker, not constrained or repulsed by open displays of bigotry against "wetback" and African American voters.

Rather, Walker dives into bigotry as a siren call for his launching pad as a toady of the Koch brothers and billionaires' from whom Walker takes his orders.

The February release of emails from Walker's secret and illegal political operation run of the Milwaukee County Executive's office has exposed Walker as a deceitful operator who for over a decade has surrounded himself with a group of people, his top staff, who resemble nothing so much as a bunch of racists, anti-Semites and hicks. (The Progressive, February 19, 2014)

MacGillis' piece is a must-read, and the most comprehensive yet chronicling Scott Walker and the dangerous hate mongering games Walker plays.