PRESIDENT TRUMP: RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Imagine if you came home to find that your neighbor whom you thought you knew and trusted had broken into your house, raped your wife and children, killed them, taken over your assets and belongings, claimed your house as his own, only to deny he did anything when the authorities arrived. Imagine if he managed to possess your house and lock you out, blaming you for what happened and claim that he owned it all along. Imagine if he continued his assault by continuing to deny his crime and started a campaign to re-write history, distorting the facts of the massacre. Imagine if the world knew exactly what he did but he had a gag-order on the United States, blackmailing it to never recognize it properly. Imagine the pain, sorrow and PTSD he would endure throughout his life, passing it to his new wife and children.

THIS is the ARMENIAN GENOCIDE and THIS is why Armenians scattered throughout the world continue to be haunted by the ghosts of their ancestors. The Turkish government attempted to exterminate its Christian Armenian subjects in a premeditated, brutal and systematic fashion, killing 1.5 million out of 2 million innocent people living in their own ancestral land between 1915 and 1923.

Every President since Ronald Reagan in 1981 has sought to placate Turkey through the use of euphemisms and refused to utter the word Genocide. The Armenian Genocide is recognized by 48 US states and more than a dozen NATO allies. In fact, it is illegal in Switzerland and France to deny the Armenian Genocide.

This Tuesday, April 24^th is the 103^rd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide but I don’t expect President Trump to recognize it respectfully by calling it what it is: GENOCIDE

VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES FOR MORE INFORMATION

www.armenian-genocide.org

www.genocide-museum.am

www.genocide1915.org

Vic Gerami

A noted columnist, Vic Gerami is also a journalist and media contributor who is also publisher and editor of The Blunt Post. His show, 'The Blunt Post with Vic' on Public Radio KPFK 90.7 FM, part of Pacifica Network, launched in 2018. Today reaching national international audiences, Gerami first built a foundation of knowledge and skills by learning the media industry during his years at Frontiers Magazine, followed by positions at LA Weekly and Voice Media Group. For the second time, Gerami was selected as a finalist in the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards “Columnist of the Year” category in 2019, having first made the final round of consideration in 2017. His celebrity Q&A column, '10 Questions with Vic', is syndicated internationally. The Wall Street Journal featured Gerami as a “leading gay activist” in its landmark 2008 coverage of opposition to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that for years denied same-sex couples in California the freedom to marry. In addition to his years of volunteer work as a leading advocate for marriage equality, later Gerami went on to serve as a Planning Committee member for the historic Resist March in 2017. Vic Gerami is also a founding board member of Equality Armenia. In 2015, Gerami was referenced in the landmark Supreme Court civil rights case, Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Vic Gerami is a contributor to the LGBTQ San Diego County News, Windy City Times, Montrose Star, DC Life Magazine, Out & About Nashville, Q Virginia, GNI MAG, QNotes, GoWeHo, Asbarez, California Courier, Desert Daily Guide, Armenian Weekly, GED, The Pride LA, IN Magazine, OUT Traveler, The Fight and The Advocate Magazine among others.

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