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Trump-Backed Georgia Gov. Candidate David Perdue Caught Flashing CLEAR White Power Sign

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(Ed. Note: This photo is from 2020, but it’s still important. This man wants to be the Governor of Georgia, a state with a large Black population. It’s inexcusable for him to have done this.)

From the very beginning, it was always about putting the right people on top and everyone back in their place.

Trump’s first press conference laid it out. First, Mexico is not sending their best (the mostly Spanish heritage, mostly white, political power in Mexico City), Mexico was sending brown, people of color, and they were rapists, etc. and Trump assumed “some” were good people.

The theme from the first press conference was “Make America Great Again.” There are large segments of our population, Black Americans, LGBTQ, women, and immigrants, that knew America damned sure wasn’t perfect but it was far better than it was 30-50 years ago when Trump seemed to imply that things were great. Everyone knew their place and any marginalized group knew their place was not at the top.

So it’s not like they ever hid it.

But one thing that they sort of hid, at least from the population at large, people like all of us, the type that is not on certain racist Right Wing websites. They had signs – like gang signs, in an ironic twist – to let everyone know, on the sly, that they were part of a society that believes in the “Great Replacement theory,” that the left wants to replace white Americans with… anyone but, instead of just getting rid of overt racism.

The “White Power” sign worked really well because in many instances it could be passed off as an “okay” sign. But if done very overtly, it’s obvious. David Perdue, Trump’s pick for the Republican primary for governor of Georgia (Up against Kemp, the guy who didn’t give the state to Trump) was caught – at some point, because we cannot accurately date the picture, one commenter says the picture is from 2020 campaign – flashing the obvious white power sign, three fingers for the “W” and a circle for the “P” – “White Power:”

It is probably worth adding the following reply:

It was always about racism and they didn’t try to hide it.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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