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Originally Posted by lionking
just saw it again in another thread, someone calling Trump horrible because he is so racist, so post your verifiable explanations on how he is so racist.
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Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and ‘80s. More recently, his political rise was built on promulgating the lie that the nation’s first black president was born in Kenya. He then launched his campaign with a speech describing Mexicans as rapists.
See anything below that answers the OP?
In the 1970s , per the Federal government, Trump tried to avoid renting apartments to African Americans.
Trump treated black employees at his casinos differently from the white employees per multiple hotel and casino executives. To one, Trump said, "“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because
laziness is a trait in blacks.”
In 1989, Trump took out ads in New York newspapers urging the
death penalty for five black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he defiantly argued they were guilty as late as October 2016, more than 10 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.
He began his 2016 campaign by disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.
He uses the gang MS-13 to
disparage all immigrants. Among many other statements, he has suggested that Obama’s protection of the Dreamers — otherwise law-abiding immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — contributed to the spread of MS-13.
In December 2017, "Donald J. Trump calls for a total and
complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” including refusing to readmit Muslim-American citizens who were outside of the country at the time.
Trump said a federal judge hearing a case about Trump University was biased because of the judge's Mexican heritage.
In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent
immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never "go back to their huts,” in Africa
At the White House on Jan. 11, Trump vulgarly called for
less immigration from Haiti and Africa and more from Norway.
Trump called Obama (who was editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review) “
a terrible student, terrible.”
He spent years and myriad tweets suggesting that the nation’s first black president was born
not in the United States but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.
Trump falsely claimed that President Obama “
issued a statement for Kwanzaa but failed to issue one for Christmas.”
He often casts heavily black American cities as war zones. In a 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump said, “Our inner cities,
African Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.” Trump also said to black voters: “
You’re living in poverty; your schools are no good; you have no jobs.”
He frequently offers false crime statistics ( at rallies and in numerous and frequent tweets) to
exaggerate urban crime, including about Oakland, Philadelphia and Ferguson, Mo.
He is quick to
highlight crimes committed by dark-skinned people, sometimes exaggerating and lying about them ( such as aa claim about growing crime from “radical Islamic terror” in Britain). He is very slow to decry hate crimes committed by whites against dark-skinned people ( such as the killing of an Indian man in Kansas last year).
He frequently criticizes prominent
African-Americans for being unpatriotic, ungrateful and disrespectful. He has tweeted such, as well as calling them minorities that are uppity and ungrateful.
He called Puerto Ricans who criticized his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria “
politically motivated ingrates.”
He has
retweeted white nationalists without apology.
After David Duke,
the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed him, Trump was reluctant to disavow Duke even when asked directly on television.
Trump
endorsed and campaigned for Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who spoke positively about slavery and who called for an African-American Muslim member of Congress not to be seated because of his religion.
Trump pardoned and sung the praises of Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff sanctioned for racially profiling Latinos and for keeping immigrants in brutal prison conditions.
In the 1990s, Trump took out newspaper ads alleging that the “
Mohawk Indian record of criminal activity is well documented.” At the time, he was fighting competition for his casino business.
Trump has
trafficked in anti-Semitic caricatures, including the tweeting of a six-pointed star alongside a pile of cash. He has also been reluctant to condemn anti-Semitic attacks on journalists from his supporters, and he echoed neo-Nazi conspiracy theories by saying that Hillary Clinton “meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.”
Trump once referred to a Hispanic Miss Universe as “
Miss Housekeeping.”
At a June 2016 campaign rally, Trump pointed to one attendee and said: “Oh, look at
my African-American over here. Look at him.”
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