Tomi's right.
Trump's not racist just because some celebrities say he is.
Trump's not racist just because some celebrities say he is.
1) He's racist because of that thing where his company tried to avoid renting apartments to African-Americans in the 1970's while giving preferential treatment to whites.
2) He's racist because of that thing where he treated African-American employees at his casinos differently, saying stuff like: “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.”
3) He's racist because of that thing where he took out ads in New York newspapers urging the death penalty for five falsely-accused black and Latino teenagers and kept arguing that they were guilty more than 10 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.
4) He's racist because of that thing where he said, "I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that... if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I really believe they do have an actual advantage.”
5) He's racist because of that thing where he started his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”
6) He's racist because of that thing where he has suggested that Obama’s protection of the Dreamers (law-abiding immigrants who were brought to the United States as children) contributed to the spread of MS-13.
7) He's racist because of that thing where he called for a complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States (a ban which has been repeatedly struck down by the courts for--wait for it--being racist).
8) He's racist because of that thing where he claimed a judge overhearing one of the thousands of lawsuits brought against him would be unfair to him solely because of that (American citizen) judge's Mexican heritage.
9) He's racist because of that thing where he 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.
10) He's racists for vulgarly calling Haiti and African countries "shithole countries" while calling for more immigration from majority-white countries.
11) He's racist because of all the birther conspiracy nonsense, the Obama-is-a-Muslim nonsense, the Obama-is-lazy-and-Unamerican nonsense, etc.
12) He's racist because of the thing where he gave an obviously disparate response to hurricanes in Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico, calling the citizens of the latter (who are all American citizens) "lazy."
13) He's racist because of that thing where he called the white supremacists and nazis in Charlottesville "very fine people" and argued for "both sides."
14) He's racist because of his reluctance to disavow the endorsement of the leader of the KKK, even when directly asked.
15) He's racist because of that thing where he endorsed Roy Moore for Senate, complicitly supporting Moore's positions on the merits of slavery and on not letting an African-American member of Congress be seated for religious reasons.
16) He's racist because of that thing where he pardoned and praised Joe Arpaio, the disgraced sheriff sanctioned for illegally racially profiling Latinos and for keeping immigrants in brutal prison conditions.
17) He's racist because of that thing where he repeatedly, joyously, and disparagingly harangues a woman with Native-American ancestry as "Pocahontas."
18) He's racist because of that thing where he met with an accomplished Asian-American intelligence analyst and wondered aloud why she was not working on North Korea policy.
In short, he's racist because of his open, notorious, unapologetic, long history of racism.
No need to listen to a celebrity about it. Your own ears will work just fine.
No need to listen to a celebrity about it. Your own ears will work just fine.
