Congressman Gonzalez: White supremacy has no place in this country

[TexasTowelie]

by Congressman Vicente Gonzalez, Texas 15th Congressional District


It is with a heavy heart that I pen this today. Following the senseless massacres in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, let me unequivocally state: White supremacy and domestic terrorism have no place in this country.

Rising numbers of white supremacists and nationalists have been emboldened by President Trump’s messages since he took office. The racist rhetoric and attacks on immigrants and people of color by the president of United States have undoubtedly contributed to the rise in hate crimes and mass shootings in this country. It is hard to take the president’s condemnations of white supremacy seriously after he stated there were “fine people on both sides” in the aftermath of a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years ago.

The Aug. 3 mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso that left 22 people dead and dozens more wounded proves to me that the president’s rhetoric had a direct effect on the motives of the suspected mass shooter when he posted a manifesto that described his “intense hatred for immigrants and Mexicans” and cited President Trump by name.

The media reported that the shooter resided just outside of Dallas. He made a premeditated plan to kill as many “Mexicans” as possible and drove 10 hours to El Paso to commit this heinous crime. What will continue to run through my mind is that the drive from Dallas to McAllen takes roughly the same amount of time. This same man could have driven to any other community along the 2,000-plus miles that the U.S. and Mexico share along the border.

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[RockRaven]

1. It *should not* but it certainly DOES have a place. In the Oval Office. In the West Wing.

In the Executive Office Building. In the Capitol.... need I go on? Everywhere there is an elected Republican, there is white supremacy -- and too manyother places where there are other elected people too, sad to say.

But if you want to change that, if you want to minimize the places for white supremacy in the US, for the love of all that is holy or even mildly revered, VOTE BLUE!