Poor Helen Beristain! She voted for Donald Trump. But now her undocumented husband has been deported to Mexico by Trump. Now she cries tears heavy with a Jack Daniels' sadness, a sadness most wives would prefer not to drink.
She thought Trump would deport only people with criminal records—the “bad hombres,” as her fuhrer called them. “I don't think ICE is out there to detain anyone and break families, no,” Beristain told CNN affiliate WSBT in March 2017, shortly after her husband, Roberto Beristain, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
That question is not unfair. It is not malevolent. And it certainly is not sarcasm.
That question is a political and moral question, as legitimate and valid as any sensible motion an attorney presents in a rape case. That question is about the character of the Lucifer behind the White Evangelical Christian cult. It is about the grand wizard of the Republican Party, about the fuhrer of your United States. About Donald Trump as septic tank and toilet.
“Some blacks would rather be shot by their enemies than shoot their enemies.”
Sometimes, the relationship between the old and the new is like a bad marriage. The old inside the marriage want to get out; the new outside the marriage want to get in. Yet, the new may not grasp that the marriage is bad for them too.
“A man’s rights rests in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” (Frederick Douglass)
After Charles Cotton, a Houston attorney and National Rifle Association board member, blamed the slain pastor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for the massacre that occurred at the church on June 17, 2015, a tornado of outrage engulfed his comments before he had time to delete them.