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« on: September 27, 2017, 12:37:34 pm »


from The Washington Post....

If Trump's not a white supremacist, he does a good impression

Don't give him the benefit of the doubt.

By EUGENE ROBINSON | 7:54PM EDT - Monday, September 25, 2017

President Donald J. Trump at the Von Braun Centre in Huntsville, Alabama. — Photograph: Marvin Gentry/Reuters.
President Donald J. Trump at the Von Braun Centre in Huntsville, Alabama. — Photograph: Marvin Gentry/Reuters.

PRESIDENT TRUMP's race-baiting attack on African American athletes is nothing new. During the civil rights movement, blacks in the South who dared to stand up for justice were often punished by being fired from their jobs. Trump is demanding that National Football League team owners act like the white segregationists of old.

It was gratifying to see the overwhelming rejection of Trump's hideous rabble-rousing by NFL players, owners and fans. But let's be clear: There is no reason, at this point, to give Trump the benefit of any doubt. We should assume Trump's words and actions reflect what he truly believes.

His opening salvo, delivered on Friday at a campaign rally in Alabama, could not have been clearer, or cruder: “Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a b---- off the field right now. Out! He's fired. He's fired!’”

Trump was referring, of course, to players who take a knee during the singing of the national anthem. The practice was started by quarterback Colin Kaepernick — and adopted by a smattering of players around the league, almost all of them black — as a way of protesting police shootings of unarmed African Americans.

Trump claimed in a Monday tweet that “the issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race,” but that is a lie. Kaepernick's method of protest had everything to do with race, as its intent was to focus attention on racial injustice.

Trump was speaking to a virtually all-white audience in the Deep South. About 70 percent of players in the NFL are African American. Some political analysts put two and two together and concluded that Trump was playing to the racial anxieties and animosities of his base. If this is true, however, he seems to have miscalculated.

Hundreds of players, black and white, protested during the anthem on Sunday by kneeling, linking arms or, in some cases, declining to take the field until the music was over. Many coaches and owners joined in. Almost all team owners released statements defending the players' right to protest, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, a friend of Trump's who contributed $1 million to his inauguration committee and gave him a Super Bowl ring. Kraft said he was “deeply disappointed” by Trump's remarks.

Perhaps stung by the near-unanimity of the NFL's reaction, Trump sought refuge by appealing to an audience he might have expected to be friendlier. “So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag,” he tweeted on Monday.

But a half-hour later, NASCAR's most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., responded by tweeting, “All Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protests.” Maybe next Trump will try his luck with the professional rodeo circuit.

Trump's intent, I assume, was to create a wedge issue, with patriots on one side — his side — and non-patriots on the other. He did not realize that so many people who might dispute Kaepernick's position on police violence would nevertheless defend the players' right to take a stand, or a knee. We have a president who does not understand our fundamental freedoms.

We also have a president who, if he's not a white supremacist, does a convincing impression of one.

On Saturday, he publicly disinvited the Golden State Warriors' Steph Curry — one of pro basketball's transcendent stars — from the White House. Curry had expressed reluctance to visit, and instead of reaching out, Trump slammed the door. I suppose you could argue that rich and famous athletes can take care of themselves.

But recall that Trump and his father were sued by President Richard Nixon's Justice Department for illegally refusing to rent apartments to black prospective tenants. Recall that Trump continued to insist that the “Central Park Five” — four black men and one Latino — were guilty of a brutal rape even after DNA evidence had conclusively proved their innocence. Recall that Trump led the “birther” movement, ridiculously claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Recall Trump's campaign appeal to black voters: “You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed — what the hell do you have to lose?”

And recall his reaction to Charlottesville, where he discerned some “very fine people” among the torch-wielding parade of Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis.

I don't believe this can all be political calculation. I believe Trump is telling us what he really thinks — and who he really is.


• Eugene Robinson writes a twice-a-week column on politics and culture for The Washington Post, contributes to the PostPartisan blog, and hosts a weekly online chat with readers. In a three-decade career at The Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper's Style section.

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« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2017, 12:37:43 pm »


Yep....Donald Trump is a white-trash racist alright....just like the majority of his supporters (including his mentally-retarded supporters in ENZED).
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« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2017, 12:40:01 pm »

..black lives matter......white lives......mm....not so much🙄
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« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2017, 12:40:30 pm »


from The Washington Post....

America has a racial demagogue for a president

This is a sobering historical moment.

By MICHAEL GERSON | 7:57PM EDT - Monday, September 25, 2017

Several New England Patriots players kneel during the national anthem. — Photograph: Michael Dwyer/Associated Press.
Several New England Patriots players kneel during the national anthem. — Photograph: Michael Dwyer/Associated Press.

IT IS often difficult to determine if President Trump's offenses against national unity and presidential dignity are motivated by ignorance or malice. His current crusade against sideline activism at professional football games features both.

Protests by players during the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” are misdirected, but their motivations are understandable. African Americans have a naturally complex relationship with a country in which 1 out of 7 seven human beings was once owned as property and robbed of his or her labor. A country with a founding promise that bypassed them. In 1852, Frederick Douglass asked how the American slave should respond to the Fourth of July holiday. “To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless…. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States.”

Tough words, at least as challenging as a knee to the ground at a sporting event. And the end of slavery was hardly the end of oppression. We are a country where the reimposition of white supremacy following the Civil War involved not just segregation but also widespread violence. A country in which mass incarceration and heavy-handed police tactics now create a sense that some neighborhoods are occupied by a foreign force. A country in which wealth and opportunity remain, in significant part, segregated by race.

If white Americans can't feel even a hint of this alienation and outrage, it is a fundamental failure of empathy and historical memory.

Trump seems ignorant of, or indifferent to, the unfolding drama of the civil rights movement — of President Abraham Lincoln's firm hand signing the Emancipation Proclamation, of African American military heroism in defending the Union, of the stubborn courage displayed by protesters in the front of buses and at segregated lunch counters, of Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, repeated in many bloody versions. When the president looks at protesters, he cannot see what they are trying to be.

This ignorance is matched by malice. Trump must know that rallying his white base against young African American protesters is feeding racial tension and providing permission for bigotry. He is essentially accusing these athletes of disloyalty, just as he accused Mexicans of being rapists and Muslims of being threats. This is a pattern and habit of division by race, ethnicity and religion.

Stop and consider. This is a sobering historical moment. America has a racial demagogue as president. We play hail to this chief. We stand when he enters the room. We continue to honor an office he so often dishonors. It is appropriate but increasingly difficult.

In this case, demagoguery is likely to be effective, in part because protesters have chosen their method poorly. The American flag is not the racist symbol of a racist country. It is the symbol of a country with ideals far superior to its practice. This is the banner under which the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry — the first African American regiment organized in the Civil War — fought the Confederacy. This is the flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol on July 2nd, 1964, when the Civil Rights Act was passed. This is the flag that drapes the coffins of the honored dead on their final homeward trip, to a flawed nation still worthy of their sacrifice.

The extraordinary achievement of America's founders was to elevate a set of ideals that judged (in many cases) their own hypocritical conduct. With the Declaration of Independence, they put a self-destruct mechanism in the edifice of slavery. They designed a system that eventually transcended their own failures of courage. At least in part. With more to go.

Both president and protesters would benefit from reading Douglass's conclusion: “While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American institutions, my spirit is cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age…. The fiat of the Almighty, ‘Let there be light’, has not yet spent its force. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light.”

The president's agenda of division is fully exposed. Faith in the Declaration, and in the genius of American institutions, remains the proper response. Under the flag that symbolizes them both.


• Michael Gerson is a nationally syndicated columnist who appears twice weekly in The Washington Post.

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« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2017, 12:43:06 pm »

..yes..racism is very bad..


...Winston Peters wants to abolish it in NZ
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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2017, 01:20:18 pm »


I agree....all those with no Maori blood in them should be deported from ENZED.

They could then ask nicely those with Maori blood to admit them back into the country if they promise to be good and NOT indulge in racism.

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« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2017, 01:28:27 pm »

..or all those with Maori blood could go back to Hawaii, and we could let them back in at our discretion 🙄
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2017, 01:34:25 pm »


Those with Maori blood were here first.

So they have indigenous “grandfather” rights.
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« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2017, 01:37:47 pm »

Ktj....."Those with Maori blood were here first."


...ahhh...noooooo...the moriories were here first...preceded by the moa's🙄
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2017, 01:41:11 pm »


Dumbarse....Moriori (only racists incorrectly insert an S on the end) were merely another Maori tribe.

You stupid white-trash (with no Maori blood) are too thick to work that one out.
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« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2017, 01:43:44 pm »

.haha..and what about the moas?

...oh hang on...the maoris slaughtered them to extinction...so much for conservation eh🙄
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« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2017, 01:52:45 pm »


Yadda yadda yadda.....the ravings of a stupid racist twat.
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« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2017, 02:38:07 pm »

...typical....if the maoris don't get it given to them on a plate it's racist...par for the course🙄
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« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2017, 02:39:00 pm »


Oooooooh.....the IDIOT aka Reality/Donald is currently posting to this thread.

I wonder what sort of inane twaddle is going to suddenly appear?
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« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2017, 11:32:28 pm »

Hey KTJ. Give me a direct Donald Trump quote that proves he's racist. I call bullshit.
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« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2017, 11:46:49 pm »

Calling someone white trash; Dictionary definition of racism. As you were.
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« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2017, 11:48:18 pm »

Suggesting someone is superior, better, or special because of their racial heritage; The dictionary definition of racism. As you were.
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« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2017, 10:08:47 am »

Hey KTJ. Give me a direct Donald Trump quote that proves he's racist. I call bullshit.
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« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2017, 10:34:55 am »

Nahhh..sorry..he could only give a fake quote from a lefty fake news organization he subscribes to😳

...can ya believe it...he actually pays for that shit😳...

..gives you an insight as to how low the IQ might be...😩
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« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2017, 03:19:03 pm »

And um, has or does Mr Trump employed a variety of high ranking non whites in his businesses and current govt?? Case closed. Next lefty bullshit meme please.
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« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2017, 03:34:46 pm »


Ah, yes...just like the white-trash racists in New Zealand who proclaim, “I have Maori friends,” and then go right ahead and tell racist jokes aimed at Maori.
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« Reply #21 on: September 28, 2017, 03:37:04 pm »

Ktj.... “I have Maori friends,"

...bullshit...you don't have friends...prove it...beach ya cant😉
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« Reply #22 on: September 29, 2017, 09:16:58 am »

KTJ again I really recommend a basic logic class or even a book about logic. There are also apps that can help you.
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« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2017, 09:20:31 am »

Hey KTJ. Give me a direct Donald Trump quote that proves he's racist. I call bullshit.

Still waiting.
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« Reply #24 on: September 29, 2017, 06:52:15 pm »

OK checkmate. Cheers 😁
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