Apparently, folks on social media have noticed something about Donald Trump’s latest series of scheduled campaign stops in his bid to be reelected to get his spray tan and rust-orange butt shavings all over the Oval Office furniture again. People have noticed that the man whose racism seeps out of every one of his pores every time he has a thought about Black people and people of color is campaigning in cities that have legacies of being “sundown towns.” They were towns all across America, North, South, East and Midwest, pre-and-post Jim Crow law, that didn’t allow Black people to be in them after sundown–and used racial terror and violence to enforce the illegal practice.
Last month, we reported on the backlash Trump and his campaign received after scheduling a stop at the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office in Howell, Michigan, where white nationalist America’s favorite former president suggested that deputies there should be deployed to Detroit because he would “love to have them working there during the election.” That meant he was continuing to lie about election fraud happening almost exclusively in majority-Black voting districts in 2020–and that he was asking for armed law enforcement support in pursuit of that lie.
Well, according to the Independent: “A week later, Trump held a ‘town hall’ in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The next day, he rallied in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He will speak in the town of Mosinee, Wisconsin, on September 7.” All of these cities were sundown towns during Jim Crow.
At least he’s consistent?
Trump’s campaign has defended Trump by pointing out that President Joe Biden spoke in Howell in the past, and Vice President Kamala Harris once spoke in La Crosse, but those weren’t campaign events, and they weren’t part of a back-to-back-to-back tour of “Yes, we Klan” America.
It should also be noted that when it comes to touring through America’s white supremacy-friendly…
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