From Stephen A. Crockett @ The Root, who expresses my sentiments exactly:
“When I was in the seventh grade, my dad gave me firm instructions to come home after school. My middle school was across the street from a mall, which meant that after school, everyone hung out, and my dad didn’t want me in the mall getting into trouble since a group of kids had been caught stealing. One day, I came home late, and my dad was pissed. I tried to explain that while I was late, he should be proud of me because I hadn’t stolen anything. He told me then that you don’t get a reward for not doing something you shouldn’t be doing in the first place.
That’s the way I feel now upon learning that corporate heads are leaving Donald Trump’s advisory council in mass since the president of white nationalism just came out and said some white nationalism sh__. Since the president is incapable of denouncing the unbridled hatred of white men storming a school holding tiki torches and chanting racist, hate-filled speech, seven CEOs have announced that they are leaving Trump’s American Manufacturing Council, and three have left the Strategy and Policy Forum, and the question I have to ask is, “Why were they on these councils in the first place?”
It shouldn’t be this hard, folks. The man has literally only been consistent about two things since he was a private-citizen-turned-candidate-turned president: He believes in white nationalism and hates all things that aren’t white. So it’s confusing why corporate bigwigs at Intel, Merck, Tesla, Under Armour, Alliance for American Manufacturing, and two heads over at AFL-CIO waited until the president’s tone-deaf, uninformed and down right ignorant ramblings about placing blame on “both sides” in the Charlottesville, Va., attack that left one woman dead and several injured, to finally make the break.”
Note: See his column for more.