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When Will The Tattooing Start? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-21
Infamously Jews were tattooed for identification in Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp outsourced to then occupied Poland. This practice was a staple of the SS to identify the dead naked bodies of Jews, along with Gypsies, Gays, and so-called other undesirables after execution. Ironically, the Trump administration is using the excuse of tattoos to subvert the Constitution. Last week, the President of the United States used what is reportedly a doctored photo showing the left hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia displaying an MS-13 gang tattoo. The White House appears desperate to rob Mr. Garcia of his rights to due process, which is the point. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was initially identified as a member of the MS-13 gang in 2019, partially because he wore a Chicago Bulls cap and jacket similar to the one my son, a Bulls fan since the 90s, wears. The continued willingness of the Trump regime and its devotees to ignore the Constitution and the Court(s) is a demonstration of the lengths the Trump administration will go to achieve its fascist goals.
Like the Germans did in the lead up to World War II, concentration camps, one has to ask how many lies Americans are willing to suffer to soothe the need to subjugate the other. The attacks on the sanctity of U.S. elections were not enough. The violent attack on the U.S. Capitol was not enough. The adjudication of candidate Donald Trump as a rapist was not enough and his 34 felony convictions was not enough. As the country watches the Constitution fall under the weight of Donald Trump’s lawless behavior, are we being reduced to debating the reasons and cost of a dozen eggs to condemn or maybe save us? Mr. Trump has given us the vision of what he ultimately wants to do, send Americans he designates as undesirable to El Salvadoran concentration camps, with ironically as little evidence as a tattoo. “The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places,” Trump said to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.
On what turned out to be the eve of Pope Francis’ death, Mr. Trump did not disappoint with an invective-laden, self-serving Easter Greeting for the country. All of this is a part of his efforts to desensitize the country with vile rhetoric, dehumanization, and eventually identifying his enemies by their tattoos, either self-inflicted or imposed by the government. How quickly nearly half the voting public dismissed his wicked characterization of legal Haitian emigres and citizens of Haitian heritage residing in Ohio, and reduced their numbers to pet-eating savages. As a black man in America with black sons and black grandchildren, what comfort do I have should any of them ever run afoul of the law that they may not end up as Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s bunkmate?
GOP Dystopia…
In chaos, a society bereft of reason—the Republican party aspires for America—will not disappear with Mr. Trump's departure from the public square. Like drag marks in the dirt, the American body politic is being pulled along the ground and muddied by a philosophy that disregards truth and now justice like rubbish. In chaos and fear, the theft of resources and freedoms goes unchallenged. When my classmates and I would ask my fifth-grade teacher, she would show us her tattoo from her childhood in a concentration camp. At age 11, I had a hard time understanding that sort of cruelty, but she warned us never to forget.
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