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Trump Claims “Chaos Is Coming.” Hello, It’s Already Here.
White suburban mothers should fear their own fathers, sons, and husbands
It’s exhausting to have to repeatedly list all the ways in which the criminal justice system and some members of the media mistreat Black people. This sentiment was palpable in the message Jacob Blake’s sister Letetra Widman provided when speaking to the press last week. “I’m not sad, I’m not sorry; I’m angry, and I’m tired,” she said, adding, “I don’t want your pity. I want change.” She also spoke about the indefatigable grief that Black people have been experiencing for generations.
One would hope that after such an impassioned statement following yet another viral, traumatic Black moment involving police, that the president would say something, anything, even if it rang hollow to the Blake family. Well, you would be wrong. Instead, Donald Trump stood at a press conference and lied a tremendous lie. He told reporters that he had spoken with the Blake family pastor and that he wouldn’t be meeting with them when he visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, because they wanted to have lawyers involved.
All of that is patently false. Jacob Blake Sr. told reporters, “We don’t have a family pastor. I don’t know who he talked to. I don’t care who he talked to.”
