Why Mental Health Can’t Be The Savior For White Supremacy

The back-to-back horrors of domestic terrorism that were orchestrated by two young White males, in their twenties, armed with high-powered rifles that were used to exact as much damage as possible within seconds of pulling the trigger wasn’t inspired by the blows of mental illness; despite what President Trump and his cowardly henchmen are desperately try to hawk to the American people.

During his address to the nation, where he failed to accurately follow the script that was blazed out in front of him, and instead mentioned his condolences to “Toledo” instead of Dayton, Trump managed to utter the words “White supremacy” without choking, and the media annoyingly gave him an “A” for effort.

He also borrowed talking points from conservative media, by lazily blaming our ongoing national catastrophe on “violent video games,” and “mental health” with the empty promise of working with “congressional Democrats” on “reforming mental health law,” as a way to expertly pick out the ones that his Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney callously refers to as “sick people” who are “not normal in the head.”

The major category that wasn’t covered during the news conference was the president’s own admission of how his hateful rhetoric which began while he was campaigning for the nomination that he fatefully garnered, has…