It’s not looking as though relations between Donald Trump and China are going to get better any time soon.
Not only has Trump been crushing relations every which way with the nation since the start of his campaign, but now it looks as though China is letting us know what they think of him.
China’s Shanxi province has turned Trump into a giant rooster.
The giant “Trump Rooster” statue features a rooster that looks startlingly like the president-elect. It has his infamous hair, angry scowl on its face, and even has the same hand gestures.
The degree of obvious racism and white supremacy sentiment, which has always been hiding in the wings of this society, has come forth and continued to grow.
Mexicans, Muslims, Latinos and many other people of color have been the target of plenty vitriolic comments.
When whites arrived in this country, they had to “dispose” of the “red man”.
The policies of this belief have continued undaunted.
The current political climate has done nothing to stop it.
In the 19th century, manifest destiny was a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
Historians broadly agree that there are three basic themes to manifest destiny:
The special virtues of the American people and their institutions
The mission of the United States to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America
An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty
Historian Frederick Merk says this concept was born out of “a sense of mission to redeem the Old World by high example … generated by the potentialities of a new earth for building a new heaven”.
During the months of June 2016, a Donald Trump-inspired congressional candidate has sparked outrage by plastering “Make America White Again” on billboards in eastern Tennessee.
Rick Tyler, an Independent running in the 3rd District that includes the city of Chattanooga, almost immediately started catching hell for his racist spin on the presumptive Republican presidential candidate’s slogan, “Make America Great Again.”
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