Timothy Mellon, a billionaire trust fund baby whose great-grandfather built the family wealth, is the biggest pro-Trump political donor in recent memory. He has already poured in $15 million to Trump's 2024 reelection campaign, $20 million to RFK Jr's election campaign (under the theory that RFK Jr's candidacy will hurt Biden), and $50 million to help Trump "build the wall" (over 90% of the total donations to that effort). In 2022, a non-presidential year, he contributed $42 million to Republican election causes. In total, he's donated over $150 million to pro-Trump causes since 2020.
What does the person who wants Trump and Republicans to control the nation think of Black folk? He told us in his own self-published 2015 memoir. Speaking of the state of the country in 1984, he wrote:
"Something had obviously gone dreadfully wrong with the Great Society and the Liberal onslaught. Poor people had become no less poor. Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the ‘Establishment’ to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations."
"Drugs rose to the level of epidemic. Single parent families became more and more prevalent. The likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton pandered endlessly to fan the flames."
“For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on. The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.”
I'm in the process of doing a deep dive on his origins, I think his wealth originated in a racist too.
What does the person who wants Trump and Republicans to control the nation think of Black folk? He told us in his own self-published 2015 memoir. Speaking of the state of the country in 1984, he wrote:
"Something had obviously gone dreadfully wrong with the Great Society and the Liberal onslaught. Poor people had become no less poor. Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the ‘Establishment’ to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations."
"Drugs rose to the level of epidemic. Single parent families became more and more prevalent. The likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton pandered endlessly to fan the flames."
“For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on. The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.”
For a Racism-Free 22nd Century, We Need a Billionaire-Free 21st - Inequality.org
The dead hand of grand fortunes past is still poisoning our present.
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I'm in the process of doing a deep dive on his origins, I think his wealth originated in a racist too.
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