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Hate, Xenophobia, Terror & Murder
During this week of the 92nd Anniversary of the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti, which is August 23rd, Donald Trump continued to spread the kind of racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic hateful speech that resulted in two Italian immigrants being sent to the electric chair in the US in 1927.
Hard-working Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed not because the evidence against them in a murder case was clear beyond a reasonable doubt, but because their ethnicity was. At least that’s why Trump’s father, Fred, participated in and was arrested at an anti-immigrant KKK rally in Queens, NY, just three months before Sacco & Vanzetti were killed. Fred Trump and his KKK cronies wanted immigrant blood, and they got it — similar to how his son, Donald, whose own xenophobia & White Supremacy has inflamed his followers, reaped the deadly consequences of what his hate speech has sown with the slaughter of innocent Jews in their Pittsburg, Pennsylvania synagogue last year, and of Mexican Americans last month in El Paso, Texas.
The KKK rally in 1927 at which Trump’s father was arrested was not only anti-immigrant: it was anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Black and anti-Italian. Three years earlier those same KKK friends of Fred Trump’s, prevailed on Congress to pass the most racist, anti-Semitic immigration law in American history, the…