Trump Comes to Long Island

Last Friday noon, on my quiet suburban island known to many as the backyard of New York City, Long Island, an overcast of doom fell upon the mansions and slums that decorate this God forsaken place. Some call this thing a cloud of doom, others call it Mr. President. And on this Friday, this thing came to the Suffolk County Community College campus at Brentwood and said to his audience full of officers from the local Suffolk County precincts to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that when they deal with suspects of crimes that they “shouldn’t be too nice” and to be “rough” when they’re forcing a human “into the back of the paddywagon”. What doesn’t shock me but deeply struck a nerve is knowing that this happened where I call home, that when these comments were made, a wave of cheers vibrated through the rally. These officers who already abuse, murder, harass, and torture communities of color are emboldened by their president who justifies their hate. Their Commander-in-Chief has given them an exclamation of approval, and in fact urge to accelerate aggression towards the very people they’re SUPPOSED to serve. And while Trump supporters and Trump cronies gathered and listened to their fascist leader scapegoat immigrants for the crimes that are inflicted onto them by their own, MS-13, we the people protested the gang that is truly committing atrocities to our communities, who pose a greater threat to our kind, the Grand Old Party and their Grand Old Wizard. Trump, like most fascists, are too enamored with themselves to ever take a step back and look behind them, look at all the bridges they’ve burned and havoc they’ve unleashed. To make these matters worse, he did this at a conference that was supposed to talk about the gang violence in the area caused by MS-13, he failed to discuss why gangs like MS-13 exist in the first place. He failed to discuss why those crippled by the Salvadorian Civil War migrated to California, clustered together in slums and banded together to protect themselves and their community from the harsh, racist stick that is the American system that breeds gangs in the first place. To end gangs, you need to end the cycle of poverty in America. There cannot be a demand for new members in the gang if there is no reason to join. If youth were exposed and faced with opportunities that are offered to middle and upper class youth, gangs wouldn’t have to be a reality. If you stop segregating people of color into low-income communities ridden with poverty and actually work to end it with progressive policies, perhaps then we could see change. But instead, this administration’s solution is to escalate police brutality, target, harass, and kill immigrant communities, tear families apart and scapegoat these communities for the failures and conditions that were imposed by the elites. It is time we police the police. If you forget that you work for US, we will gladly remind you. I would just like to end this post by saying Fuck Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter, Eat the Rich, and Socialism will prevail!