{"id":24000,"date":"2017-08-18T21:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T21:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24000"},"modified":"2017-08-18T21:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T21:47:04","slug":"trump-has-riled-a-grieving-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24000","title":{"rendered":"Trump has riled a grieving mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/susan-bro-ftr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24001\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/susan-bro-ftr-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/susan-bro-ftr-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/susan-bro-ftr.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My memory at times lets me down, but I am pretty sure that in my lifetime I haven&#8217;t heard of anything quite like this.<\/p>\n<p>The mother of a young victim of racial violence has declared her intention to refuse a call from the <em>president of the United States of America<\/em> when he gets around to making it.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Bro&#8217;s daughter, Heather Heyer, was mowed down by someone driving a car into a crowd of counter protesters this past weekend in Charlottesville, Va. Heyer was among those protesting a demonstration by hate groups &#8212; Ku Klux Klansmen, neo-Nazis and white supremacists; the haters were protesting the taking down of a Confederate statue.<\/p>\n<p>The young man arrested and charged with killing Heyer is known to have pro-Nazi, white supremacists views. Donald John Trump then took the floor at Trump Tower to say that &#8220;both sides&#8221; were equally to blame for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<p>That was too much for Bro.\u00a0\u201cI have not, and now I will not,\u201d Bro said Friday when asked whether she had spoken with Trump. \u201cYou can&#8217;t wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m not forgiving for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazing, yes?<\/p>\n<p>There was more to Trump&#8217;s statement that enraged Bro. The president said there were &#8220;many fine people &#8230; on both sides&#8221; taking part in the demonstration. Fine people? Did he actually mean to suggest that those who march with <em>neo-bleeping-Nazis<\/em> are &#8220;fine people&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>The president has messed with a grieving mother. He once again exhibited his utter cluelessness about the weight of his words.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My memory at times lets me down, but I am pretty sure that in my lifetime I haven&#8217;t heard of anything quite like this. The mother of a young victim of racial violence has declared her intention to refuse a call from the president of the United States of America when he gets around to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump has riled a grieving mother<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7240,1424,2077,7254,2692,7244],"class_list":["post-24000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charlottesville-riot","tag-donald-trump","tag-hate-groups","tag-heather-heyer","tag-kkk","tag-neo-nazis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24002,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24000\/revisions\/24002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}