Brazilian Baptist minister, who is an immigrant in the U.S., calls the Trump administration “wretched administration” regarding COVID-19 and says that Trump makes clearly racist statements that incite violence
By
Julio
Severo
A
country is in trouble when its own citizens curse its government. But when even
immigrants can curse the president with impunity the country in a much bigger
hole.
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| Ronilso Pacheco |
“It
is hasty to imagine that clearly racist statements, incitement to violence, or
even Trump’s wretched administration regarding the COVID-19 would weaken him to
the point of guaranteeing Biden’s victory.”
Pacheco,
who lives in New York, also said:
“If
he is sure to ignore police violence against the black population, if he clearly
defends armed white people and shooting against anti-racist protesters, if he
makes racist statements and deliberately belittles the devastating effect of
the pandemic, it is probably because of calculated risks.”
Pacheco’s
logic is that when BLM (Black Lives Matter) rioters loot stores and threaten
their owners, they should have complete freedom to do so. Any defensive
reaction from the owners is seen by Pacheco as “racism.”
When
Trump criticizes the rioters and says that Law and Order must be enforced,
Pacheco also sees such a defensive stance as “racism.”
In
order for you to prove that you are not racist, you have to let the rioters
loot at will and commit violence at will.
If
it is already a criminal attitude for an American citizen to defend such radicalism
in the U.S., what about an immigrant? Obviously, Pacheco knows that the excess
of freedom in the U.S. gives him enough protections to accuse Trump of
“racist.”
If
I were the U.S. president, I would deport an immigrant who calls the American
president “racist.” But if Trump does that, BLM will treat Pacheco as an
“immigrant martyr” victim of Trump’s “racism”!
As
an example of the “racism” that black Americans suffer, Pacheco used the case
of Jacob Blake, who was shot by the police. For Pacheco, it is a case of police
violence against blacks.
What
Pacheco did not reveal is that just before he was shot, Blake, who had a knife in his possession, wrestled with the police officers, not following any of their orders.
Pacheco
seems totally unaware that when a citizen is approached by the police, he has
an obligation to comply with all orders from the officers. Not complying,
confronting and wrestling is typical of criminals. Whoever confronts and fights
with the police acts criminally and should not be surprised if he is treated as
a criminal.
When
he is approached by the police, a good citizen does not even dream of
confronting the officers. He just obeys everything and, if he feels he has been
wronged, he can later appeal to the courts.
Nor
did Pacheco reveal that Jacob Blake’s own mother apologized
to Trump
and blasted the rioters who used violence against the police to “defend Blake.”
Will immigrant Pacheco dare to call Blake’s black mother a racist for blasting
the rioters?
From
New York, Pacheco wrote his inflammatory article in Portuguese, with the title
“Trump
knows that his base of white evangelicals is quietly applauding him in the U.S.”
For
Pacheco, Trump is leading a conservative evangelical population that is the
great resistance force against the BLM rioters.
For
him, anyone fighting against BLM is “racist.”
Pacheco
expressed extreme concern over Trump’s statements of support for evangelicals.
He quoted Trump, who said:
“Christians
make up the overwhelming majority of the country, and yet we don’t exert the
power that we should have. Christianity will have power. If I’m there, you’re
going to have plenty of power, you don’t need anybody else. You’re going to
have somebody representing you very, very well. Remember that.”
As
evidence that Trump has almost full support from evangelicals, Pacheco said:
“A
July poll this year from the Pew Research Center found that no less than 82% of
white evangelical voters would vote for Trump and only 17% of them would vote
for Biden. Eight out of ten white evangelical voters would vote for Trump.”
He
added:
“The
so-called ‘Christian nationalism’ remains stronger than ever in the United
States, and it has strength and consequences that come from the oldest formation
of American society, controlling politics, defending segregation, and
conspiring against democratic freedom for other groups society (blacks,
Latinos, women, gays, etc.).”
Pacheco
assures:
“But
the Christianity of Christian nationalism is not exactly the same as that of
Jesus.”
In
Pacheco’s view, the Christianity of Christian nationalism, which is composed
mostly of conservative white evangelicals, is nothing more than a racist
movement that hinders BLM’s Marxist goals. He sees his own leftist
“Christianity” as true and the Christianity of conservative evangelicals who
support Trump as false and against the Gospel.
Even
though most people are not aware of the clear objectives of BLM, the behavior
of BLM activists speaks excessively loudly: rioting, looting, violence and
confrontation with the police.
Pacheco
is not concerned about blacks confronting the police and BLM activists looting
shops and committing all kinds of violence. He is concerned exclusively with
conservative evangelicals who are the biggest support base for Trump. He said:
“In
the 2020 U.S. elections, it is necessary to measure the role that Christian
nationalism, as well as the role of conservative white evangelicals, has as a
support for Trump.”
Pacheco
is doing everything he can to inflame the Brazilian public against Trump and
conservative American evangelicals.
But
why does Pacheco accuse Trump of being “racist” for criticizing rioters who
loot and commit violence? Why does he attack the police when officers act
forcefully when a black citizen decides to confront, disobey orders and wrestle
with the police? If Trump were as wicked as Pacheco says, he would deport a
certain Brazilian immigrant who uses and abuses the host country’s freedom to
attack the president who welcomes the most bizarre immigrants.
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