Is the President a racist?

[morgankingsley]

I'm worried about the fact that he has looked the same for 30 years

[538Electoral]

Eh, Some of the things he says could give off racist vibes but no.

[Farmlands]

Everyone outside of U.S. Republicans pretty much agrees he holds some racist beliefs. Nobody in their right mind would make an equivalency between violent neo-nazis and peaceful protesters or want to ban every single person from a determined place of origin from entering the country.

[SWE]

Trump being a racist was an obvious, well-documented, and mainstream opinion long before he ran against Hillary

[All Along The Watchtower]

BARBARA RES:...if you read John O’Donnell’s book [Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump—His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall, written with James Rutherford and published in 1991], Trump talked about how he didn’t want black people handling his money; he wanted the guys with the yarmulkes. He was very much the kind of person who would take people of a religion, like Jews; or a race, like blacks; or a nationality, like Italians, and ascribe to them certain qualities. Blacks were lazy, and Jews were good with money, and Italians were good with their hands—and Germans were clean.

JONATHAN C. MOORE: The Trump ad was calling for the death penalty for juveniles. It was taken out at a time before there was any adjudication of their guilt. The theme was: Here are all these young black kids and Hispanic kids who are going to rape our young white women, so let’s put them all away. You know, we call them the Central Park Five, but it’s really the Central Park 15, or 18, or however many family members there were, because the family members suffered a great deal as well. They visited the boys in prison, on holidays; they did their birthdays inside, had Christmas parties. To this day I talk to some of them and they go into tears when they think about what happened.

C. VERNON MASON: The level of animosity and hatred was palpable. It was brutal. The language used around this case—“savages”—bordered on the kinds of stuff that Ida B. Wells and others wrote about during the lynching period.

TIMOTHY L. O’BRIEN: He trusts his gut on issues surrounding race, because he’s got a simplistic, deterministic, and racist perspective on who people are. I think at his core he has a genetic understanding of what makes people good and bad or successful. And you see it all the time—he talks about people having good genes. He looks at the world that way. He’s got a very Aryan view of people and race.

Read (much) more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/

[Devout Centrist]

Absolutely. What makes it even stranger is his weird fetish for rich black people.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Condi Rice is the best representation of Dubya, Dubya appointed multiracial cabinet and diverse; as a result, she spoke out against Trump and wont have a relationship with Trump as part of the ex-presidents club.

[Tartarus Sauce]

Yes, but it's hardly his worst trait.

[Buffywawa]

I don’t know that he personally is, but he is certainly taking advantage of pent up racist sentiments in the US and has no shame in doing so. That makes him a contributor.

[Damocles]

Do bears sh**t in the woods?

[Roemerista]

Again.

Remember the birther thing? Where he accused the first Black president of not being legitimate?

There is no debate about this.

If you don't consider Trump racist, you are likely a racist yourself.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What I find interesting is more people in a poll voted for Trump being racist than George Wallace when he ran in 1968 when a poll was made at the time

In comparison to the average person today, Trump is more racist than George Wallace was to an average person in 1968. We're less racist as a whole than we were, but still far from perfect.

That said, neither could be confused with Sen. Bilbo (KKK-MS) or Sen. Tillman (Redshirt-SC).

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Again.

Remember the birther thing? Where he accused the first Black president of not being legitimate?

There is no debate about this.

If you don't consider Trump racist, you are likely a racist yourself.

Believing a president was born in another country doesn't make someone racist.  Maybe for some people it has something to do with racism, but the primary reason for believing in it is intense partisan loyalty and a desire for political delegitimation of the other side. Obama's complicated early life history makes an easy target for claims of hidden secrets.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Again.

Remember the birther thing? Where he accused the first Black president of not being legitimate?

There is no debate about this.

If you don't consider Trump racist, you are likely a racist yourself.

Believing a president was born in another country doesn't make someone racist.  Maybe for some people it has something to do with racism, but the primary reason for believing in it is intense partisan loyalty and a desire for political delegitimation of the other side. Obama's complicated early life history makes an easy target for claims of hidden secrets.

I think there was also the issue of Obama's middle name being Hussein, and in 2008 Saddam Hussein was very recent memory.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

See this is why Trump won. The media and the Democrats are so obsessed wi...

[foolcase]

No, but Biden is.

"You ain't black"
"Put you all back in chains"

This is why I, as a black man, refuse to vote for democrats.