Earl Ofari Hutchinson
This is Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Thursday, March 27th. Another Hutchinson Report commentary. Question, is Trump and Musk, and/or both, racist? Let me repeat that. Is Trump and Musk, I’ll run them together, are running together. Are they racist? It’s not an academic question. It’s not an academic point of debate. It’s not anything academic. It has gray public policy, in this case, ramifications. All right, let’s go through the record. Trump, we know. Going all the way back in time, housing discrimination in New York. He’s been sued, sued, sued back in time, back in the ’70s and ’80s.
We also know Central Park Five. He came off with a death penalty even though they were innocent. We know that every step of the way during the campaign in 2016, there was race baiting, immigrant baiting, and bashing. That was the Trump ethic, and it worked to an extent. We also know, too, that Trump was never, ever, never, ever, and has never, ever been shy about speaking out on race with colds and essentially projecting a message that racial division, racial violence, racial hatred, is something that he, in many ways, not only encourages is, but certainly, if you want to be charitable, looks the other way.
Then we come to Trump now. Second go-around, Trump 2. 0. What do we see? We see a massive assault on the granddaddy of all, DEI. Get it out of education, schools, get it out of politics, get it out of certainly businesses and corporations. Don’t go there with that. Expunge it, even to the point of something that no one could even foresee. Legal segregation coming back by executive order, removing the qualification necessity to ensure that all public facilities with contractors, segregation is not there. Trump lifted that by executive order. Then we come to Musk. His father said he’s not a racist. He had black friends. Well, we know with Musk, the same checklist we can go through. Number one, a white South African, not holding that against him. Unfortunately, he’s spoken out for white South Africans. Needless to say, they, or rather, Trump, has said that they have been victimized by a black government taking their land and power and everything. We also know that with X and Twitter, he has encouraged many neo-fascists, right wings, and out and out bigots to essentially give them a platform. And then, of course, meddling in and closing up to neo-Nazis in Europe.
Both Trump and Musk have led the assault on DEI that has been their ethos. So, it’s not an academic point, number one. Both of them hold, really, the levers of political and economic power. Number two, they set trends. Number three, politically and economically. Number three, hate, violence, division has come to the surface and look the other way, while these two, of course, control. And not only that, but they also run the ship of state. Then, white supremacy is that back on the table again, public policy in America.
So, government and economic policy, there are extreme ramifications for two individuals that if you want to be charitable, have a racial blind spot toward minorities, immigrants, and even women, and certainly LGBT, but especially the racial blind spot toward African Americans and Hispanic. We have to ask this question, with Trump and Musk, whether Their races are not, personally, is irrelevant. What is relevant and always must be kept in perspective and in front of us. Their positions on race in America, rolling back the clock, blind eye, looking the other way, executive orders, X, and all the other levers of power they control, does this essentially pose a grave danger again.
Violence, hate, and division, will it become under Trump and Musk, the official American way of life? Is Trump and Musk a racist? Are Trump and must racist? It’s not an academic point. It’s a point of grave, grave concern. This is Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Thanks again for listening to the Hutchinson Report commentary.
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His latest book is The Musk DOGE Fraud (Middle Passage Press)