Presidential Candidate Mark Charles on Trump’s Attack on the 4 Congresswomen of Color
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Mark Charles (Navajo) is an independent candidate running for president of the United States
Published July 18, 2019
Guest Commentary
The reason President Trump is so offended by Congresswomen Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Corte is actually quite simple.
They are all women of color who do NOT blindly accept, affirm and espouse the mythology of American Exceptionalism.
And American Exceptionalism is the coping mechanism for our white supremacist nation that is in deep denial of its genocidal past as well as its current racist and sexist reality.
So when his mythology was continuously confronted by #TheSquad, President Trump had two choices:
A) Acknowledge that this nation is NOT exceptional and begin the difficult work of dealing with our genocidal history and current racist and sexist reality.
B) Ask them to leave.
It is disappointing but not at all surprising that he chose the latter.
The United States of America needs a national dialogue on race, gender and class. A conversation on par with the Truth and Reconciliation commissions that took place in South Africa, Rwanda and Canada. I would call ours Truth and Conciliation (because reconciliation implies there was a previous harmony) and I believe we need one sooner rather than later (#TCC2021).
The vision of my campaign is to build a nation where ‘We the People’ truly means #AllThePeople.
Ahe’hee my relatives. Walk in Beauty.
Mark Charles
Mark Charles (Navajo) is an independent candidate running for president of the United States.
DISCLOSURE: Charles is a longtime contributor to Native News Online
Read his latest Commentary that appeared Monday, on Memorial Day, in Native News Online: A Native Perspective on Memorial Day
7 Comments
My skin is very white. My native comes from my moms father. I can’t tell you how many times in my life I’ve been told that if I’m not happy here in America, then leave. Anytime I have an opinion about the injustices or the stupid wall, or gun control, or people just being ok with so many sick men in charge of our country, I’m told those words.
Hey Mark, check out Sir John Templeton
John was a banker, investor, & fund manager. “Arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century.”
Templeton was one of the most generous philanthropists in history, giving away over $1 billion to charitable causes. Templeton renounced his US citizenship in 1964, allowing him to channel an additional $100 million that he would have paid in US income taxes when he sold his international investment fund, toward philanthropy. He held dual naturalized Bahamian and British citizenship and lived in the Bahamas.
John drove his own car, did his own oil changes & rode standard couch on airlines. R.I.P John.
Happy you are here
The biggest problem I can see are you people keep using racism as an excuse for everything! Sounds like a a schizophrenic problem. Why can’t people just try to get along? Our lives would be much better without all the competition of trying to be “the best?”
First of all Trump told the crybabies “IF THEY DIDN’T LIKE AMERICA, “GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM” If you leave out words you make it sound worse than it is! It is disgusting for people to leave out words or add words to thier benefit! Come on people why do you keep stirring the pot?
Let us know when a decent native candidate is available and not a leftist race-baiting fraud SJW phony instigator who spreads lies and starts trouble and then blames others, just like Nathan Phillips, the stolen valor grifter fake Vietnam vet. The Navajo Code Talkers campaigned for Trump and didn’t whine and play the race card and get offended like little snowflakes when the president fought back for this country, all colors, including white. How racist to exclude whites and judge people you don’t agree with based on their skin color, and blame them for things they had and have nothing to do with. But then, the Code Talkers, who my dad served with to defeat actual evil, not imaginary wrongs in your weak mind, were real warriors who saw that joining together with their fellow countrymen of all colors including white to fight the common enemy would ensure the survival of all. True heroes don’t slander, wrongly accuse, and run down the obvious exceptionalism of the land and people who defend their freedom. If you don’t like it here, you are free to leave, or make it better. Spreading hate and division and lies and propaganda and supporting terrorist groups like antifa and Al Q and inciting mental case terrorists to bomb ICE buildings housing lawbreakers who are invading OUR native tribal homelands, which are not theirs, committing immigration fraud by marrying your brother and using a fake name to get here to spread your poison, committing campaign and tax frauds and violations, and being stupid, rotten apples in general has nothing to do with their color. The Jihad Squad has attacked Trump and Americans nonstop and endangered all of us and called us every name in the book, and now you want to cry “racist” like a little baby when he fights back for the people? You are pathetic. Real natives defend our lands and people. Try it sometime. You won’t get many votes.
lil red, sounds like you like strong men, if you meet one let us know , we want you to be Happy too.