MAGA man is upset a Hispanic family bought building next door that he wanted--calls on ICE to deport them. Even put up h

[riversedge]

Anyone claiming that Trump is not stirring up more violence and hate does not know what they are talking about.


MAGA man is upset a Hispanic family bought building next door that he wanted—calls on ICE to deport them.

Even put up huge sign: "Deport them all. Trump start with my neighborhood first."

Enrique Garfias is legal U.S. citizen—says he's tired of the hate directed at his family.

Douglas Dietrich says he will not take down sign calling on ICE to deport his neighbors—and that people criticizing him just fuels his anger.

"This has just encouraged me to leave this sign up—maybe I’ll even add another sign next to it."

The ongoing confrontation is happening in Pitt County, North Carolina. #DemsUnited

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

1. The sign he should put up should be "I am an ignorant asshole"

[gopiscrap]

19. exactly

[3catwoman3]

28. That is the message his sign sends, even if not in those words.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Jackass.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Well, it sounds like it is time for tit for tat. Perhaps a hate crime, especially if this guy is here legally and is a

US citizen.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Free speech rights

do not include defamation. I think the neighbor has a reasonable case, and if a judge and/or jury agree, he might ending up owning this asshole's house, too.

[multigraincracker]

18. I think those are fighting words

I’d love to punch him in the face
Might be legal to do with “fighting words”.

[sdfernando]

5. If I were one of the neigbors

I might be inclined to put up a sign that says something like "I live next door to a BUTTHURT, RACIST, NAZI, ASSHOLE."

[malaise]

6. He should watch this

[Warpy]

21. The banks were part of the whole scam, especially in the northeast

in city after city. It worked like this: a slumlord would send someone in to make a straw purchase of a house for sale. He would then move a black family into that house. With the block of housing now "mixed race,: the banks would send out notices or just plant a news article about redlining the block, meaning loans would no longer be granted for things like roof repair because that black family meant the neighborhood was on the skids. The slumlord would then swoop in as "for sale" signs appeared all over the neighborhood, snapping up the houses at bargain basement prices. But hey! The friendly bank would point the displaced people out to the suburbs, where what they got for the homes they'd grown up in was just enough for a down payment on a post war cracker box of a bungalow. Suburbs! Fresh air! A yard for the kiddies and their swing set!

The banks got a customer for the next 30 years as they collected the fee for administering the VA or FHA loan. The slumlord got housing in prime condition for practically nothing, a cash cow for decades as it slowly fell apart because slumlords don't fix anything. Black folks did get housed, but they have also collected far more than their share of resentment from people who miss friends and families from the old neighborhoods. The slumlords got really, really rich. The banks continued redlining any place black people lived until they and their allies started to cry foul in the 70s, once fair housing acts opened up new neighborhoods to everybody.

Block busting, as it was called, was well known to be going on back in the 1950s. What wasn't fully known until the 70s was the role that every fucking bank in any given city had played. Documents detailing the practice of redlining and how it was used to give slumlords a bonanza while driving white families out of housing they might have occupied for generations and indebting them to housing in the burbs. White people didn't run away from black people. They ran away from what the banks were doing.

[malaise]

22. Thanks for this

Rec

[electric_blue68]

25. Ty. Will bookmark, watch the rest later..

ETA Ddn't read Warpy's post above before I posted this.
However I'm sure there were some white people who did want to live next to a black family.

.I don't think I knew about the suburban subsidizing for white people; although I'd hear the term "white flight" by the ?late '60s which is probably connected to it.

Otoh, I knew the term red-lining (banks withholding mortgages, loans, insurance to Black people, possibly Hispsnics neighborhoods), which also exacerbated the situation by the '70's. I might have not known the actual particulars at first bc as renters I did pay attention to it; but I knew it wasn't good for Black people ie: they were being denied something that most white people could get.

[Torchlight]

8. Woke is anything not bigoted. That's why they require the word so badly.

To criticize a lack of bigotry without saying it aloud... until this guy. I guess they'll be more open about their bigoted words and actions as this flawed administration stumbles through its next few doddering years

[JI7]

9. Bigots hate when those they hate are successful

[Baitball Blogger]

10. It's important to sue for defamation.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Dietrich Properties of Grifton, NC?

This guy?

"******* is a Racist piece of trash and a Slumlord"

https://www.bbb.org/us/nc/grifton/profile/real-estate-rentals/dietrich-properties-0593-90314102

[aggiesal]

12. He wins the Award of the Day ...

[Vinca]

13. I'd say it's time for 24/7 mariachi music.

[slightlv]

14. I swear, trump and his minions should be declared a public health

hazard. They are as infective an agent as any microbe. Worse, the inflammation they cause goes to the very soul of a person and dooms the individual in this life and any other that might possibly await him.

[Chicagogrl1]

15. The Little Man Said

“They came next door” 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
Nice verbal skills racist

[maxrandb]

36. If you're his significant other, go next door

they apparently cum over there.

[irisblue]

16. I hope that Monkeys Gargage has several cameras monitored 24/7

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. Ahh, yes. Pitt County.

Don't get me started.

At least Greenville is trying to act like a city. The old guard there must be pulling out the three remaining strands of hair with all the growth going on there. Which means an influx of 'less than pasty white' folks.

Darn.

[Hornedfrog2000]

20. How about we fund a sign

Saying they should actually start arresting pedophiles, start with his neighbors first. Im gonna guess trump humper would get upset

[DownriverDem]

23. Michigan/Metro Detroit

has a lot of Mexicans and Arabs, yet trump never talks about Detroit or Michigan. I have a feeling Gov Whitmer made some kind of deal with trump or the auto companies paid him off. Does anyone have any insight into this?

[FadedMullet]

24. So this pinhead says "Well, it appears that this shop has came next door......", proving his ignorance and his stupidity

[electric_blue68]

26. What a scummy guy! I hope his neighbor gets lots of business!

[spanone]

27. Fuck these ignorant racist assholes.

[yardwork]

29. This is predictable behavior under fascism.

People turn on one another. Neighbors report one another. Anybody who has a grudge or wants something someone else has reports them.

The government becomes an instrument of fear rather than a system of justice.

[jgmiller]

30. Racist's are going to racist

He made it ok for them to crawl out of the rocks they had been hiding under.

[electric_blue68]

37. His "permissions"...

Deliberate, tragic, and so dangerous! Bad enough first term, and now - worse!

[lastlib]

31. Well, we could burn the MAGAt out......

...or maybe send Guido an' a coupla his boyz to have a little "talk" wid him...... I'm open to ideas........

[BradBo]

32. I hope no one burns that bigots house down.

[ShazzieB]

33. Here's a link for people who don't want to click on an X post.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/sign-deport-neighbors-north-carolina-rcna226255

And now that that's out of the way: what an absolute freaking racist jackass that Dietrich guy is! I'm sure glad I don't have to live next door to HIM (or anywhere near him). What a loser!

[hamsterjill]

34. "Has came"

You can spot the poorly educated easily with the misuse of the English language. (Yes, I know there are people whose first language is not English, and I'm not talking about that). This is a White male who is misusing the English language because he's too ignorant to know how to speak correctly.

Typical Trump idiot.

[Dlpger61]

35. White People Please!!!!!

It is time that white people have a heart to heart talk with white people. You all really need to spread the message that the false information you all were taught growing up that YOU WERE/ARE SUPERIOR to all other ethnic groups was a BIG FAT LIE. We are in this mess because their is a failure by white people to let their family members, co-workers, neighbors know that the RICH lied to Tham and will continue to do so until those of you who are progressives convince them otherwise.

The quote from Lyndon Johnson is still as valid today as it was when he quoted in saying; If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson

In this case it has expanded to immigrants as white people think that this land/country belongs to them. They have no problem saying that people should not use the race card, however, they continue to act and do racist things. We are in this mess with the wannabe dictator because white people think that they are the only ones that matter in this country.

I would like someone to answer some questions please;

1. What makes white people superior.to other ethnic groups?
2. If white people are so much superior to other ethnic groups, why are some of them in poverty and living paycheck to paycheck?
3. What are the other ethnic groups coming to or taking from white people?

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Those Questions Are Appropriately Posted...

...in DU?
Seems a bit odd to look for answers to those questions at a place where those attitudes don't broadly exist.

[Dlpger61]

39. Hence the problem

This is the place to have those questions answered, those of you good progressive white folks should be able to answer the questions and explain why you all can't convince your relatives, friends, co-workers, etc. to stop assisting the rich in destroying this country because of their white privilege or so-called superiority.

SO PLEASE SOMEONE WITH COURAGE ANSWER THE QUESTION.

If you can't you are just like the white liberal Martin Luther King Jr talked about.
“The white liberal must rid himself of the notion that there can be a tensionless transition from the old order of injustice to the new order of justice. Two things are clear to me, and I hope they are clear to white liberals. One is that the Negro cannot achieve emancipation through violent rebellion. The other is that the Negro cannot achieve emancipation by passively waiting for the white race voluntarily to grant it to him. The Negro has not gained a single right in America without persistent pressure and agitation. However lamentable it may seem, the Negro is now convinced that white America will never admit him to equal rights unless it is coerced into doing it.

Nonviolent coercion always brings tension to the surface. This tension, however, must not be seen as destructive. There is a kind of tension that is both healthy and necessary for growth. Society needs nonviolent gadflies to bring its tensions into the open and force its citizens to confront the ugliness of their prejudices and the tragedy of their racism.

It is important for the liberal to see that the oppressed person who agitates for his rights is not the creator of tension. He merely brings out the hidden tension that is already alive.”

― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

So it will be up to Liberal White people to finally stand up and help in this struggle.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Save Your Insults...

...and sanctimony to someone else.
Nothing like alienating one's allies.

[Dlpger61]

42. Wow

It is very obvious that you do not see the problem that we are facing in this country. The reason why is your inability to address the issue. I am not sanctimonious, I am living in a reality that I am tired of because white people liberal or conservative have a failure to admit that you are blinded by your whiteness and have allowed the RICH to make you all feel like you are superior to all other ethnic groups.

Everyone has to suffer for the selfishness of the white people in this country. Another quote by Martin Luther King Jr, Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

NO ONE IN DU WANT TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE BECAUSE IT IS TRUTH!!!!!!!!

[electric_blue68]

40. Particularly 2nd question!

Luckily as a white person my parents did not teach me that kind of racist lies.

I do say counteractive things to racists. I'm very careful when meeting new white people about how they talk about Black/POC if in some fashion something is said in the course of various chit chat over time getting to know someone. I'm not asking directly.

Something I remember every several years or so....
In fact I (we, my sis) in my ? late teens my dad drove us down to meet a ? half brother in deep Brooklyn (we lived in Washington Heights). A nice house with a lovely flower, and vegetable garden!
But our potential cousins 2 women around our ages said a bunch of racist things. We; my sis and adecided not to pursue a relationship. Wenever mentioned them again.