Member-only story

Why Trump’s Pledge As a “White Nationalist” Was The Activation of Lethal Supremacy

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readFeb 1, 2019

A horrible event went down recently and it involved what can only be described as a “modern-day” lynching of a Black gay man, who was exiting an eatery in the early hours of the morning, when he was brutalized by the deadly antics of two White males; who badly bruised his ribs, doused him in bleach, and threw a noose around his neck.

The unfortunate victim of this heinous hate crime is Empire star, Jussie Smollett, and it’s literally a miracle that he survived his attack. Smollett told Chicago Police that the White supremacists who gave him a vicious beating, also yelled out racist and homophobic slurs that ended with the words of our existence.

This is MAGA Country!

The hope is that the perpetrators will be caught and swiftly brought to justice. And it’s no shocker that the #MAGA crowd has tried to sell the false narrative that’s meant to discredit the severity of Smollett’s harrowing ordeal.

But those of us who have the bullseye on our backs, thanks to Trump’s America — are equipped to know better.

The ascension of White nationalism in America has been normalized to the point that even the media has a difficult time outrightly labeling a “hate crime” for exactly what it is, which is the…

--

--

Responses (13)