(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Many (Bash; Tapper) missed Trump's reference to 'Black jobs.' Here's what it is - and its important [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-01 When talking about immigration, Trump said: “As sure as you’re sitting there, the fact is that his big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They're taking Black jobs now and it could be 18. It could be 19 and even 20 million people. They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history.” Among the cacophony of egregious lies, conspiracy theories and self worship freely spewed by Trump during his debate with Biden on 27 June, this buried comment on immigration was an especially horrific reference to a white supremacist American History which went overlooked by Tapper, Bash, Biden - and many viewers. But other viewers did pick up on Trump’s reference to ‘Black jobs’ (and ‘Hispanic jobs’) as many identified their lack of clarity for the term. I’ve subsequently seen such questions on social media. The explanation is very important… Heather Cox Richardson’s substack of 30 June explains this History and reference to ‘Black jobs’ briefly and effectively. Trump’s reference was an unabashed and violently racist reference which originated as part of our nation’s long History of White Supremacy and pointedly highlighted in arguments for succession immediately preceding our Civil War first by South Carolina politicians. South Carolina was the first state to leave the union in the attempt to reestablish itself as having independent political dominion. As soon as Trump made this white supremacist reference, the moderators should have stopped the debate in its tracks and demand Trump explain it and himself. Frankly, I doubt he could have or fully understood this more explicit History. As Richardson points out, assaults on and scare tactics referencing newly arrived immigrant groups by ‘native born’ Americans started well before the final succession drive in the late 1850s and the deep propanda of white supremacy as used by the Southern owners of human slaves leading to our Civil War. In the 1840s, Know-Nothings in Boston warned native-born voters about Irish immigrants; in 1862 and 1864, Democrats tried to whip up support by warning Irish immigrants that after Republicans fought to end enslavement, Black Americans would move north and take their jobs. To make clear, and for those less familiar with the evolution and History of America’s political parties, the Democrats of the 1860s (and before) evolved into our current modern Republicans. This happened even more explicitly in the 1960s after the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by then President Lyndon Johnson, a proud son of Texas. It was also the early 1960s when the Republican Right and closely allied hate groups led by the KKK started to use the Confederate battle flag to represent white supremacist threat, brutality and, often, death to Black Americans. But this discussion can be held more in depth later on. I have long argued that Trump’s presidency and, now, candidacy pushes an intent to regress this nation back to some of our bleakest days immediately prior to our Civil War which subsequently killed hundreds of thousands of Americans on both side of the divide. Trump, MAGA, White Nationalists and much of the GOP Congress target early to mid 19th century politics and History in their rants and stated intentions. This makes Trump, and his GOP Congress, the new representatives of America’s long defeated former Southern land holders and slave owners. When the land owners and owners of human slaves of the South led by South Carolina, chose to secede from the union, these land owners/slave holders first had to convince a majority of their own citizens to agree. This especially included the very many poor, hard working, non-slaveholding, Southern white men who would also be the primary to die in a subsequent war with the Union. Southern human slave owners had to convince - or adequately intimidate - Unionists in the South who were not keen to separate from the US in order to create their own nation dedicated to the right to hold human slaves. The owners of human slaves also had to generate support from Southern women even if women did not have any more right to vote than did the South’s human slaves. This is, exactly, the History being followed by Trump and his virulent White Supremacist followers; from MAGA voters to a MAGA GOP House. In fact, many of these American anti-patriots include elements of large evangelical organizations some of whom also demand the repeal of the 19th Amendment. 19A finally gave women the right to vote in 1920 after a long, intense and protracted struggle. The relevance of and need to protect ‘Black jobs’ was part of the arguments made by land holding Southern successionists as they pushed for the majority of remaining, and largely non-slave holding, white Southern men to vote for and support succession. The South was still acting as a pseudo-democracy and succession required a vote. According to the fire eater (identified as ardent supporters of slavery and Southern succession) South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond in 1858: “In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life,” South Carolina senator James Henry Hammond told his colleagues in 1858. “That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud-sill of society and of political government; and you might as well attempt to build a house in the air, as to build either the one or the other, except on this mud-sill.” Southern leaders were smart enough to have designated a different race as their society’s mudsills (or the ‘Black jobs’). The only true way to look at the world was to understand that some people were better than others and had the right and maybe the duty, to rule. “I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that ‘all men are born equal’” Hammond wrote, and it was on this theory that some people are better than others that southern enslavers based their proposed new nation. (bold is mine) Alexander Stephens, vice president of the new Confederacy, told supporters: “Our new government is founded…upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical and moral truth,” Trump and his White Supremacist MAGA cohort, to very much include those in the GOP House, are now refighting the early politics of America’s Civil War. (This is not unlike the fact that Putin has been fighting for years to recreate the extremely volatile and fragile politics of pre-WW 1 Europe - and doing so with some success. But this is another point for a later date.) Despite the fact that the Civil War didn’t fully get started until April, 1861, fighting began and went through the 1850s as the South tried, however unsuccessfully, to expand slavery into new territory and newly forming states. This included what became known as the ‘Border War’ between Kansas and Missouri which starting in 1854 and continued into the Civil War. The Kansas - Missouri Border Wars were driven by whether Kansas would be a free state or one in which slavery could expand and flourish. These Border Wars, or ‘Bleeding Kansas’ could be extremely violent confrontations initiated by both sides. The ‘Jayhawks’ in Kansas were fighting to keep their territory a free state. THIS is more of America's History potentially being recreated by Trump and those for whom he is a front. THIS is more of the framework for the ignorant, racist reference to ‘Black jobs;’ or James Henry Hammond’s ‘mudsills.’ The incredible violence which preceded our Civil War, and the Civil War which followed, was driven by the intent of Southern land holders and human slave owners to protect its White Supremacy and right to maintain human slavery at about all costs not only to the North, but to itself as well. This is from where #Trump's reference to the need to protect 'Black jobs' comes… After the Civil War, it was Chinese in the 1870s California now changing to mostly brown skinned immigrants from the South along with (and long still) Jews who are the priority targets of Trump and the MAGA white supremacist Right’s focus on the insane ‘great replacement theory.’ America, won and built by the blood of human slaves, so very many citizens, and our US military all since our earliest History, is now threatened to be dramatically and violently regressed should Trump, the Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025,’ and a Christian fundamentalist SCOTUS majority (who just gave Trump ‘immunity for official acts while in office’ as President) ever come close to recapturing the White House. It is a resurgence of and attempt to recover America’s violent historical white supremacy and the resurrected pro succession arguments made by politicians of the old South to include South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond. But instead of shedding blood this time, and to strongly avoid the subsequent likelihood of blood shed of blood, we MUST vote in our numbers in November since, if we do, America, our uniquely secular Constitution, and women’s right to manage their own health and wellbeing will prevail. Trump will then be able to have his multiple times in court to argue how his just SCOTUS granted ‘immunity for official acts as President’ is relevant to his violations of the espionage act and inciting a violent insurrection. I don’t believe it will matter even if it will allow additional Trump stall tactics. In the meantime, the rest of us will continue able to move forward and make progress. 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