Remember in 1968 when President Johnson opted out of a second term because widespread public anger against the Vietnam prevented him from campaigning anywhere in public?
Remember in 1973 when President Nixon hunkered down behind D.C. city buses parked around the White House bumper-to-bumper to protect him from anti-war demonstrators?
That was then.
Now we’ll remember President Trump in 2020 cowering in the White House bunker rather than acknowledge the fruits of his malevolence.
Grenville Whitman
Rock Hall
Deirdre LaMotte says
I will give this to Nixon, though. In 1970, I believe, after the Kent State murders, he put on a coat and tie and met with protesters at theLincoln Memorial.
What does Trump do, after being seen as weak hiding in his little bunker, he has peaceful protesters attacked with rubber bullets & pepper spray. For what? So he and his two-bit entourage can walk to St. John’s for a photo opp. And how ridiculous he looked standing there holding a bible in the air so that the evangelicals will be happy and his base will love the “law and order” President. What a silly, sick man he is and I loved the Episcopal Bishop of Washington taking him down!!
Kay Crofoot says
Thank you Grenville!
Patricia Heaps says
That’s not what I will remember. I will remember the retired (black) police officer shot dead while helping to protect his friend’s business – and the thugs who filmed it on Facebook Live so people could watch him die. That was a Black Life that didn’t matter. I will remember the NYPD officers stabbed and shot. I will remember the media chastising the rest of America to not be so concerned with “things” – after all, that’s the purpose of insurance. I will remember all these “Democrat leaders” calling all those protestors who wanted to go back to work as far-right domestic terrorists while this rioting mess has “been instigated and perpetuated by white men” according to the mayor of Seattle. I will remember all the innocent people in these cities who have lost their livelihoods (if the were able to keep them after the scamdemic) and how their losses have been downplayed because, you know, white supremacy or something. I will remember the felons released from prison in the name of “the virus” and those arrested for going to church. And those instances are just a few – there are so many things to “remember”.
On the plus side, I will remember those who practiced their 2nd Amendment right to self-defense and took out looters. Rob a gun store? As they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I will
Deirdre LaMotte says
Well, if that is what you take from these protest, you do not understand systemic racism in our country. Were your
ancestors slaves? Did your family have the right to buy a house in any neighborhood? Were they allowed to only “ sit in the back of a bus”? Did it affect you when the vile man in the White House called Charlottesville white neo-nazi protesters “very fine people”?
What up your flippant “white supremacy or something” comment? You mean the phony wannabes with their guns, hunter camouflage and cute little personal patches wandering among unarmed people?
And a final note. I find it abhorrent anyone would shoot to kill a person taking a TV set. That is why we have a judicial system.
Patricia Heaps says
Yes, that is what I have taken away from these “protests” – which ceased to be a protest as soon as the first plate glass window was broken and a store was looted. This was an issue on which the majority of this country agreed, that George Floyd was essentially murdered by a bad cop but somehow that message got highjacked. Now the message is “Defund the Police”. More officers and unarmed whites are killed every year than unarmed blacks. I see “celebrities” donating money to get looters out of jail but none for the Mom and Pop shop down the street, egged on by a media that will report “mostly peaceful” protests as fires rage in the background. I see Baltimore city and Chicago with exorbitant rates of homicides yet where is the outrage over those lives lost? I guess some black lives matter more than others.