On January 6, 2021, a mob separated from a peaceful protest and stormed the US Capital. It was insanity to say the least, and it was received with condemnation by people of all political persuasion. President-Elect Joe Biden said in a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, “No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.”
Now we hear words of “insurrection”, “white supremacist”, “Nazi”, "systemic racism", "structural racism", "fascism" "white privilege", detention centers become "cages", Arnold Schwarzenegger compare January 6, 2021 to the infamous Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), etc. How did we get to this point and why aren’t elected officials or media personal like Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Bill Maher, Trevor Noah, using their platform to bring the American people together? President Trumps words have been dissected 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Words must unite, not divide, but media shares a lot of the blame for the level of toxicity of the toxicity in today’s current political climate.
President-elect Joe Biden wants unity, yet he played into it as well, so now he wants unity, well, what kind of unity? More importantly, do the people even want to unify with another group of people that have been demonized for four years straight, since the night Donald Trump was elected president.
It's not too late to pump the brakes on this rhetoric, or is it?
Let’s talk.