Prove that Trump is a Racist

[Tree of Life]

Or one of his cabinet members or advisors.

I'm genuinely open to the charge. But I've been disappointed. These charges are regularly leveled against this administration. And I investigate them. But they're about as solid as sawdust upon closer examination.

If you're one who levels this charge, please provide some evidence. I'm all ears.

 

[Rion]

How can anyone with orange skin and pink eyelids be anything other than a racist? /s

 

[381465]

Since I'm not in a position to define exactly what a racist is, I'm not omniscient and I strongly believe that everyone is racists to a degree but most are terrified to admit it...

 

[Eryk]

Donald Tump has been a racist all his life

The first time the president’s name appeared on the front page of the New York Times, more than 40 years ago. “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” read the headline of the A1 piece on Oct. 16, 1973, which pointed out how Richard Nixon’s Department of Justice had sued the Trump family’s real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act.​

“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’” the Times revealed. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.” (Trump later settled with the government without accepting responsibility.)​

Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot: he was accused of ordering “all the black [employees] off the floor” of his Atlantic City casinos during his visits; claimed “laziness is a trait in blacks” and “not anything they can control”; requested Jews “in yarmulkes” replace his black accountants; told Bryan Gumbel that “a well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market”; demanded the death penalty for a group of black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a jogger in Central Park (and, despite their later exoneration with the use of DNA evidence, has continued to insist they are guilty); suggested a Native American tribe “don’t look like Indians to me”; mocked Chinese and Japanese trade negotiators by doing an impression of them in broken English; described undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists”; compared Syrian refugees to “snakes”; defended two supporters who assaulted a homeless Latino man as “very passionate” people “who love this country”; pledged to ban a quarter of humanity from entering the United States; proposed a database to track American Muslims that he himself refused to distinguish from the Nazi registration of German Jews; implied Jewish donors “want to control” politicians and are all sly negotiators; heaped praise on the “amazing reputation” of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has blamed America’s problems on a “Jewish mafia”; referred to a black supporter at a campaign rally as “my African-American”; suggested the grieving Muslim mother of a slain U.S. army officer “maybe … wasn’t allowed” to speak in public about her son; accused an American-born Hispanic judge of being “a Mexican”; retweeted anti-Semitic and anti-black memes, white supremacists, and even a quote from Benito Mussolini; kept a book of Hitler’s collected speeches next to his bed; declined to condemn both David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan; and spent five years leading a “birther” movementthat was bent on smearing and delegitimizing the first black president of the United States, who Trump also accused of being the founder of ISIS.​

Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Check his pulse.

 

[brinny]

Or one of his cabinet members or advisors.

I'm genuinely open to the charge. But I've been disappointed. These charges are regularly leveled against this administration. And I investigate them. But they're about as solid as sawdust upon closer examination.

If you're one who levels this charge, please provide some evidence. I'm all ears.

He's not.

The charge of "racism" is the latest scarlet letter, so to speak. It's a red/scarlet "R" that can be plastered on anyone to shut them up, shut them down, or render them indefensible and thus sub-human, and not worthy of legal rights or protection. It's nothing new. There's always been those "badges" plastered on whole groups of people, just as the yellow stars were forced on the Jews in order to identify who was deemed sub-human, with no legal protections, and how an entire society developed a hatred for the yellow star-wear-ers. Same with the red/scarlet letter "R".

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana

 

[Tree of Life]

Donald Tump has been a racist all his life

The first time the president’s name appeared on the front page of the New York Times, more than 40 years ago. “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” read the headline of the A1 piece on Oct. 16, 1973, which pointed out how Richard Nixon’s Department of Justice had sued the Trump family’s real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act.​

“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’” the Times revealed. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.” (Trump later settled with the government without accepting responsibility.)​

Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot: he was accused of ordering “all the black [employees] off the floor” of his Atlantic City casinos during his visits; claimed “laziness is a trait in blacks” and “not anything they can control”; requested Jews “in yarmulkes” replace his black accountants; told Bryan Gumbel that “a well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market”; demanded the death penalty for a group of black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a jogger in Central Park (and, despite their later exoneration with the use of DNA evidence, has continued to insist they are guilty); suggested a Native American tribe “don’t look like Indians to me”; mocked Chinese and Japanese trade negotiators by doing an impression of them in broken English; described undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists”; compared Syrian refugees to “snakes”; defended two supporters who assaulted a homeless Latino man as “very passionate” people “who love this country”; pledged to ban a quarter of humanity from entering the United States; proposed a database to track American Muslims that he himself refused to distinguish from the Nazi registration of German Jews; implied Jewish donors “want to control” politicians and are all sly negotiators; heaped praise on the “amazing reputation” of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has blamed America’s problems on a “Jewish mafia”; referred to a black supporter at a campaign rally as “my African-American”; suggested the grieving Muslim mother of a slain U.S. army officer “maybe … wasn’t allowed” to speak in public about her son; accused an American-born Hispanic judge of being “a Mexican”; retweeted anti-Semitic and anti-black memes, white supremacists, and even a quote from Benito Mussolini; kept a book of Hitler’s collected speeches next to his bed; declined to condemn both David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan; and spent five years leading a “birther” movementthat was bent on smearing and delegitimizing the first black president of the United States, who Trump also accused of being the founder of ISIS.​

Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville

If this isn't a Gish Gallop then I've never seen one.

Maybe we could pick one piece of evidence from here that you feel is particularly strong and analyze it. Which would you suggest?

 

[pescador]

He's not.

The charge of "racism" is the latest scarlet letter, so to speak. It's a red/scarlet "R" that can be plastered on anyone to shut them up, shut them down, or render them indefensible and thus sub-human, and not worthy of legal rights or protection. It's nothing new. There's always been those "badges" plastered on whole groups of people, just as the yellow stars were forced on the Jews in order to identify who was deemed sub-human, with no legal protections, and how an entire society developed a hatred for the yellow star-wear-ers. Same with the red/scarlet letter "R".

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana

If somebody refers to themselves as a white supremacist or a Nazi or a Klan member, then they are a racist. That is the basis of their distorted thinking.

 

[4x4toy]

As long as President Trump blesses Israel and America he's my guy ..

 

[LoAmmi]

I think the problem is that if you're looking for the beyond a reasonable doubt standard, you aren't going to find anything. Not against that standard. I don't actually think Trump himself is racist. What I do think is that Trump has been willing to cozy up to racists to get more votes. Circumstantial evidence includes his rhetoric toward Mexicans, including attacking a judge with Mexican heritage but who was actually born in the US as well as retweeting known white supremacists. One of them was a tweet was an image who's creator specifically stated was antisemitic.

We also have a former employee stating he didn't like black people handling his money, a charge he responded by saying he probably did say it.

 

[381465]

Donald Tump has been a racist all his life

The first time the president’s name appeared on the front page of the New York Times, more than 40 years ago. “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” read the headline of the A1 piece on Oct. 16, 1973, which pointed out how Richard Nixon’s Department of Justice had sued the Trump family’s real estate company in federal court over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act.​

“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’” the Times revealed. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.” (Trump later settled with the government without accepting responsibility.)​

Over the next four decades, Trump burnished his reputation as a bigot: he was accused of ordering “all the black [employees] off the floor” of his Atlantic City casinos during his visits; claimed “laziness is a trait in blacks” and “not anything they can control”; requested Jews “in yarmulkes” replace his black accountants; told Bryan Gumbel that “a well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market”; demanded the death penalty for a group of black and Latino teenagers accused of raping a jogger in Central Park (and, despite their later exoneration with the use of DNA evidence, has continued to insist they are guilty); suggested a Native American tribe “don’t look like Indians to me”; mocked Chinese and Japanese trade negotiators by doing an impression of them in broken English; described undocumented Mexican immigrants as “rapists”; compared Syrian refugees to “snakes”; defended two supporters who assaulted a homeless Latino man as “very passionate” people “who love this country”; pledged to ban a quarter of humanity from entering the United States; proposed a database to track American Muslims that he himself refused to distinguish from the Nazi registration of German Jews; implied Jewish donors “want to control” politicians and are all sly negotiators; heaped praise on the “amazing reputation” of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has blamed America’s problems on a “Jewish mafia”; referred to a black supporter at a campaign rally as “my African-American”; suggested the grieving Muslim mother of a slain U.S. army officer “maybe … wasn’t allowed” to speak in public about her son; accused an American-born Hispanic judge of being “a Mexican”; retweeted anti-Semitic and anti-black memes, white supremacists, and even a quote from Benito Mussolini; kept a book of Hitler’s collected speeches next to his bed; declined to condemn both David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan; and spent five years leading a “birther” movementthat was bent on smearing and delegitimizing the first black president of the United States, who Trump also accused of being the founder of ISIS.​

Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville

Come on, you can do better than that.

He was racist in the womb.
He was a Nazi zygote.

 

[MoonlessNight]

Come on, you can do better than that.

He was racist in the womb.
He was a Nazi zygote.

I wonder when we'll get Calvinism-style predestination adapted for racism, so that people will claim that even before the world was created some people were destined to be racists.

 

[HereIStand]

Sadly, the racism charge is made with little (or no) attempt to justify it. It's like accusing someone of blasphemy in an Islamic country. No proof needed. Just whip the crowd into an angry frenzy.

 

[4x4toy]

I think the problem is that if you're looking for the beyond a reasonable doubt standard, you aren't going to find anything. Not against that standard. I don't actually think Trump himself is racist. What I do think is that Trump has been willing to cozy up to racists to get more votes. Circumstantial evidence includes his rhetoric toward Mexicans, including attacking a judge with Mexican heritage but who was actually born in the US as well as retweeting known white supremacists. One of them was a tweet was an image who's creator specifically stated was antisemitic.

We also have a former employee stating he didn't like black people handling his money, a charge he responded by saying he probably did say it.

I think more black folks, hispanic and other American citizens will be showing up in the poles next vote more than ever after hearing the dishonest rhetoric to finish off the rinos and bury the democratic party radicals . People want to work, be productive citizens and get back to their lives and not live from constant outside turmoil .

 

[Jenny_8675309]

Sadly, the racism charge is made with little (or no) attempt to justify it. It's like accusing someone of blasphemy in an Islamic country. No proof needed. Just whip the crowd into an angry frenzy.

And all those lawsuits about racist business practices. But other than those, sure, no attempt at all.

 

[Steve Petersen]

And all those lawsuits about racist business practices. But other than those, sure, no attempt at all.

What were the verdicts in those cases?

 

[LoAmmi]

I think more black folks, hispanic and other American citizens will be showing up in the poles next vote more than ever after hearing the dishonest rhetoric to finish off the rinos and bury the democratic party radicals . People want to work, be productive citizens and get back to their lives and not live from constant outside turmoil .

If Trump stays in, we may be seeing a lot more people show up at the polls next year. (Just don't think you'll be happy with that result)

 

[4x4toy]

If somebody refers to themselves as a white supremacist or a Nazi or a Klan member, then they are a racist. That is the basis of their distorted thinking.

It doesn't matter what idiots think as long as they obey the law . Anyone breaks the law deserves to be corrected with fines or jail, even death penalty .

 

[4x4toy]

If Trump stays in, we may be seeing a lot more people show up at the polls next year. (Just don't think you'll be happy with that result)

I'm happy right now and Hillary sure got a big surprise

 

[LoAmmi]

I'm happy right now and Hillary sure got a big surprise

Yeah, I know. But if Trump stays, doesn't bring the jobs, and the Democrats run anybody who isn't as dislikable as Hillary, I think Trump is done.