My Best Friend is a Trump Supporter

[Baitball Blogger]

29. Yep.

The worst is a long-time friend to a family member. He posts all kinds of Briebart and Infowar garbage on his facebook page. I unfollowed him, but peek in now and then to see if his views have changed, but, nothing. He only gets worse. No center of logic. This is the way he reasons: If the KKK is bad, then so is the antifa group. He is also now pushing the meme that, if Trump is donating a mil to the hurricane effort, why isn't the Clinton Foundation or Obama doing the same? No point in debating him. He is so tainted by his prejudices. I am thinking that he needs to use this counter-argument method in order to continue calling himself Independent minded.

Now I recognize that some of his Facebook "mistakes" may have been sheer outright examples of racism. For example, I was trying to connect with a local chapter that was involved with Civil Rights and I encouraged the main organizer to post on my wall anything that he thought I should pay attention to. He wasn't familiar with Facebook back then, any better than I was. He would tag the posts, using my name, instead of using the share option, but that was okay with me because, back then, I wasn't really an avid Facebook user.

Well, one time he tagged a post that promoted a popular black singer and in the picture, she wore her hair up in an afro. My racist friend commented, "Nice hair." I deleted the post and realized that no amount of anger from me would make a difference. He is what he is.

It didn't matter in the long run. I realized that the small town network in Central Florida is quick to reach out to anyone who makes noise, and the once promising activist, who I was hoping would lead to some meaningful community volunteering, was soon diverted into something different. That's the world we live in.