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By Robert Rouse

It has been thirteen years since I had a blog.  I used to be known as Left of Centrist, but for some unexplained reason Blogger decided to take it from me without notice and give it to someone else.  Now, I am far from Left of Centrist, I have become so far left it is hard to see the center anymore, and I have one man to blame for that, Donald John Trump.  You see, I refuse to use his title when discussing him because his lies and actions over the past three years and four plus months have shown me he is the most unworthy of the title this country has ever seen.

We are now in turmoil, not only because of the public execution of George Floyd, but in the final analysis, it is Trump himself who has allowed institutional racism to be the norm and we are better than that.

Over the past few days, we have witnessed people of all colors and stripes of life come together as a single voice.  While it is true that there has been some rioting, looting, and  violence, recent news has come to the light that man Conservatives have been posting on Twitter claiming to be Antifa, while they are the real ones causing the trouble.

Trump has sworn to send troops to fight off the protesters when many are peaceful and demanding change in the way police departments around the country treat Black suspects.    What Trump needs to do is STFU.

Let's look at the case of Dylan Roof.  On June 17, 2015, Roof, who is White, entered a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and proceeded to kill nine African Americans.  He was taken alive and sentence to nine life sentences.    Now had a Black man entered a White Church and killed a single person, the odds are he would have been shot dead.

It has become an epidemic of unarmed Black men being murdered by police.  I know many claim they are scared, but the truth is, if a suspect is unarmed, they have a gun, there is nothing to be afraid of.  Just another case of racism.

I will keep an eye on what's going on and try to come back one or two times a day and give you my opinion and, most of the time, armed with facts.

Robert, out!


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