In a Thursday interview on Fox News, President Donald Trump told interviewer Harris Faulkner that if local authorities do not intervene to break up the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) in Seattle, he will take action himself.
“If there were more toughness, you wouldn’t have the kind of devastation that you had in Minneapolis and in Seattle. I mean, let’s see what’s going on in Seattle,” Trump told Faulkner. “I will tell you, if they don’t straighten that situation out, we’re going to straighten it out… He’s [Democrat Washington state governor Jay Inslee] got great National Guard troops so he can do it. But one way or the other, it’s going to get done. These people are not going to occupy a major portion of a great city.”
When asked if there was a need for police reform, the president responded, “Well, we are going to do lots of things, good things, but we also have to keep our police and our law enforcement strong. They have to do it right. They have to be trained in a proper manner. They have to do it right… But when you see an event [the Chauvin murder of George Floyd] like that, with the more than eight minutes of horror, that’s eight minutes truly of horror, a disgrace. Then people start saying, ‘Well, are all police like that?’ They don’t know. Maybe they don’t think about it that much. It doesn’t make any difference. The fact is they start saying, ‘Well, police are like that.’ Police aren’t like that. I mean, I’ve seen so many incredible things that they do. But you don’t see that… You don’t put it on television.”
The president recently tweeted, echoing a Miami Police chief who was speaking of his hardline response to city riots in 1967, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Faulkner asked Trump what he meant by that: “It means if there’s looting, there’s probably going to be shooting. And that’s not a threat. That’s really just a fact because that’s what happens.”
Harris’ take-away from the encounter with the president? “He thinks that fixing the economy is how you bring everybody together and bring them forth. He wants to restore the markings of black wealth and that rise that was happening in black communities economically. And that’s how he wants to go for it.”
That is a fair analysis of what the president said. But Harris, who I have the utmost respect and aesthetic appreciation for, misses something. The president also wants to restore a sane perspective on race to the country. This analyst thinks he desires a society, as someone else once said, where people are judged by their character, not by their skin color. He wants race to be incidental, as it should be, to any person’s achievements and place in America. Trump wants us to live up to the noble goal of a truly color-blind society based on merit, not on left-wing pieties on race which only serve to promote a rabid brand of racism just as pernicious, just as dangerous, as anything America has ever dealt with in its past.
If this nation is ever to come to terms with that past so it can get on with its future, Trump’s vision must become a reality. If not, expect a lot more riots in our future and in the future of our children. That will come to pass because those who benefit from the riots will still have cultural and political carte blanche to manipulate others to engage in them.
This piece was written by David Kamioner on June 12, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette [1] and is used by permission.
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