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Unless it is politically expedient, and the politicians want that group targeted.

and we all know what groups Donald wants targeted.

It has happened to persons of color, and Japanese in the past. What was a black man supposed to do if a group of whites beat him up in the street 1950's-ish? Call the cops? Protest? March in the streets?

Go back where he came from, according to the current leadership.
 
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20 plus times an hour on average - once every 3 seconds two media stations called the President a racist.

CNN, MSNBC say 'racist' more than 1,100 times regarding Trump 'go back' tweet since Sunday

CNN and MSNBC have said the word "racist" more than 1,100 times since Sunday, according to a tally conducted by Grabien Media, an online media production and news prep service.
The date of the article is July 16.

Sounds like brain washing. That is just CNN and MSNBC.
Simple. Don't watch them.
 
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There is a simple solution, you know. If one does not want to be called a racist:
  • Don't make racist tweets.
  • Don't make racist statements.
  • Don't take racist actions.
  • Don't display racist attitudes.
  • Don't have a history of racist behaviour.

Problem solved. No charge.

Edit: added the missing "want" in the 2nd sentence.
Show where subjects have made racist tweets, statements, actions, attitudes or behaviours. Racism is largely how one feels, and therefore cannot be shown to be true. Next prove that such alleged racist tweets, etc. are racist, as such. Do you know the intention of the speaker or doer? Since you don't you cannot prove that the statements were meant to be racist. It could be that the one hearing them has an agenda to call the originator as such.
 
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I read one of the articles, the Vox one, second from the top. - SE First, it's an OPED (opinion editorial). Not fact. But let's take the examples:
  • 1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.[/quote]Translation: Trump wanted higher $$$ for his apartments and violated a federal policy. And signed an agreement to not do so again. My comment: have you seen what section 8 housing usually looks like? I would like to avoid renting to section 8 housing, too. And it's because properties tend to get trashed, along with those around them.
    [*]1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, accused another one of Trump’s businesses of discrimination. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Brown said. “It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”
    Sound like the bosses were being discriminatory. Could be they acted on their own???
    [*]1988: In a commencement speech at Lehigh University, Trump spent much of his speechaccusing countries like Japan of “stripping the United States of economic dignity.” This matches much of his current rhetoric on China.
    Again, not a racist comment, an economic one.
    [*]1989: In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the “Central Park Five” — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running an ad in local papers demanding, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent seven to 13 years in prison, and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October 2016 said he still believes they’re guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.
    Nothing racist here. Sounds like a man who cares for the health of his city, in order to keep rents higher.
    [*]1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interviewthat “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
    "If you walk into a 7 Eleven these days, you have to have a slight Indian accent, no, I'm serious."
    [*]1992: The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino had to pay a $200,000 fine because it transferred black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.
    Today, casinos have high roller rooms and non-smoking areas. And it sounds like the gamblers were the prejudiced ones.
    [*]1993: In congressional testimony, Trump said that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
    Making an excuse so he doesn't have more competition???
    [*]2000: In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a series of adssuggesting the tribe had a “record of criminal activity [that] is well documented.”
    Ditto.
    [*]2004: In season two of The Apprentice, Trump fired Kevin Allen, a black contestant, for being overeducated. “You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything,” Trump said on the show. “At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’”
    He didn't fire him for being overeducated. He fired him for not doing enough.
    [*]2005: Trump publicly pitched what was essentially The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People. He said he “wasn’t particularly happy” with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering “an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”
    A publicity stunt. Not a bad idea, though controversial to be sure. Maybe men vs women would be sexist?
    [*]2010: In 2010, there was a huge national controversy over the “Ground Zero Mosque” — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it “insensitive,” and offered to buy out one of the investors in the project. On The Late Show With David Letterman, Trump argued, referring to Muslims, “Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”
    He was right. A mosque doesn't belong on top of Ground Zero.
    [*]2011: Trump played a big role in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first black president — was not born in the US. He even sent investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama’s birth certificate. Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a ”carnival barker.” (The research has found a strong correlation between “birtherism,” as this conspiracy theory is called, and racism.) Trump has reportedly continued pushing this conspiracy theory in private.
    There's controversy about his birth certificate, so I don't know if the case is closed, though it's too late.
    [*]2011: While Trump suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump claimed, “I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?”
    Maybe he wasn't a good enough student. How is that racism?
 
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Sometimes a racist is actually a racist!

And it bears repeating when that racist happens to be someone of amazing power and importance.
And sometimes a label is putting someone in a box, whether or not said person belongs in that box.
 
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Show where subjects have made racist tweets, statements, actions, attitudes or behaviours.
I refer you to the excellent set of links from @Shiloh Raven in post #5.

Racism is largely how one feels, and therefore cannot be shown to be true.
Are you seriously denying that there are not racist words and racist actions, and that these words and actions do not reflect racist attitudes? Or, are you - and this would even more ridiculous - suggesting that people using such words and conducting such actions are not behaving in a racist manner?

Next prove that such alleged racist tweets, etc. are racist, as such.
I do not require to prove it. Rather, given the nature of such comments and actions, the onus is on you to prove that they are not racist. While you are at it you might have to think about whether or not those determined to deny blatant racism are themselves tainted.

Do you know the intention of the speaker or doer? .
The function of language, when used honestly, it to convey the intention of the speaker. So, either they are making racist comments, or they are liars. Take your pick.

Since you don't you cannot prove that the statements were meant to be racist.
I can give you the address of a good optometrist.

It could be that the one hearing them has an agenda to call the originator as such.
I certainly have an agenda: it is to call out blatant hypocrisy and racism.
 
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Which of these things do you find to be NOT racist?

1973: The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations — sued the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found evidence that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.

1991: A book by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”

1993: In congressional testimony, Trump said that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history

One of these not only stereotypes blacks by race but Jews as well.
He doesn't even admit he said it, though he said he might. But I can bet my last dollar that all of the current candidates for the Democratic nomination have racism in their backgrounds. That doesn't mean they're racist, necessarily. And we don't know why Trump said what he may have said. It might have been about laziness. But I agree that he has stereotyped some people.
 
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I refer you to the excellent set of links from @Shiloh Raven in post #5.
Been there, done that.
Are you seriously denying that there are not racist words and racist actions, and that these words and actions do not reflect racist attitudes? Or, are you - and this would even more ridiculous - suggesting that people using such words and conducting such actions are not behaving in a racist manner?
Absolutely serious.Some exceptions, though, like moving a sign in a bus all the way to the back seat and packing one row with 25 people.
I do not require to prove it. Rather, given the nature of such comments and actions, the onus is on you to prove that they are not racist. While you are at it you might have to think about whether or not those determined to deny blatant racism are themselves tainted.
Done that, though you cannot legally prove a negative.
The function of language, when used honestly, it to convey the intention of the speaker. So, either they are making racist comments, or they are liars. Take your pick.

I can give you the address of a good optometrist.

I certainly have an agenda: it is to call out blatant hypocrisy and racism.
Riiiiiiiiight.
 
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And sometimes a label is putting someone in a box, whether or not said person belongs in that box.

They belong in that box if they say and do racist things consistently for 40+ years
 
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Translation: Trump wanted higher $$$ for his apartments and violated a federal policy. And signed an agreement to not do so again. My comment: have you seen what section 8 housing usually looks like? I would like to avoid renting to section 8 housing, too. And it's because properties tend to get trashed, along with those around them.
Not wanting to rent to people with Section 8 vouchers is one thing. Denying prospective tenants based on their race (as the suit alleged) is something else. Since the case was settled out of court, we'll never know the full facts.

Sound like the bosses were being discriminatory. Could be they acted on their own???
Possibly. But if they decided to make that call, it must have been based on something - after all, they hired those employees and had them working on the floor any other day, so they apparently didn't have any issue with them otherwise. Either Trump told someone to remove them from the floor, or he made comments that made someone think that he wanted that.

Nothing racist here. Sounds like a man who cares for the health of his city, in order to keep rents higher.
Hahaha...no. A full-page add calling for the death penalty does nothing to improve the health of the city.

"If you walk into a 7 Eleven these days, you have to have a slight Indian accent, no, I'm serious."
???

Today, casinos have high roller rooms and non-smoking areas. And it sounds like the gamblers were the prejudiced ones.
And Trump made the decision to cater to them. He was under no obligation to do what they asked.

Making an excuse so he doesn't have more competition???
Just a coincidence that the excuse attacked the race of his competitors then?

He didn't fire him for being overeducated. He fired him for not doing enough.
He told him that he was over-educated. The exact quote:
"You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything. At some point you have to say ‘That’s enough.'”

That's a reasonable criticism of someone who has a multiple bachelors degrees and has been in school for a couple decades. Not of someone who is 29 with a BS, an MBA, and pursuing a law degree. That's not an abnormal amount of education.

A publicity stunt. Not a bad idea, though controversial to be sure. Maybe men vs women would be sexist?
Arguably, that would be sexist.

He was right. A mosque doesn't belong on top of Ground Zero.
1. It wasn't going to be "on top of" Ground Zero.
2. Why not?

There's controversy about his birth certificate, so I don't know if the case is closed, though it's too late.
No, there isn't any controversy, except in the conspiracy theory forum (which is thataway ->).

Maybe he wasn't a good enough student. How is that racism?
What reason would Trump have to suspect that Obama was a poor student? "People told him" isn't a valid answer - the factual data is that he went to Harvard and Columbia, which implies that he was a good student. The word of some unknown "people" doesn't really counterbalance that.
 
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I want to say something right now, about the difference between prejudices and racism. We all have prejudices. I personally like Filipino women over American women. We all tend to like those who are more like us, and be distrustful of those who are less like us. We have choices in foods we eat, clothes we wear, etc. I don't like, for the most part, people with tattoos. That said, one of my best friends is covered in tattoos. He, and I, overcame those-he proved himself to me to be just a regular guy. I swallowed my dislike. Prejudices can be overcome, racism normally can't. I was, as a child growing up in the deep South, prejudiced against black people. I was a victim of affirmative action in reverse-the business owner told me he had to hire a black person for the job because of labor laws. I told jokes about black people, Jews, Italians, Irish, and so on. I didn't know any better. All my life I have worked with black people and other people of color, and always gotten along. Still, most of my friends are not black. Most are either Filipino or white. Yes, I still have prejudices, but they aren't the same as racism. Perjudice is a judgement based on the way someone looks or acts. I can say I've seen prejudice in Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, and on down the line. WE ALL have prejudices.
If we choose to mistreat people based on their color or sex, this is a sin in God's eyes. To me that's racism. The word is thrown about too often these days.
 
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Not wanting to rent to people with Section 8 vouchers is one thing. Denying prospective tenants based on their race (as the suit alleged) is something else. Since the case was settled out of court, we'll never know the full facts.
So since we'll never know, we can't say it's racism.
Possibly. But if they decided to make that call, it must have been based on something - after all, they hired those employees and had them working on the floor any other day, so they apparently didn't have any issue with them otherwise. Either Trump told someone to remove them from the floor, or he made comments that made someone think that he wanted that.
Or maybe the bosses took it upon themselves.
Hahaha...no. A full-page add calling for the death penalty does nothing to improve the health of the city.
I disagree. Allowing criminals to walk around freely does nothing to improve the health of the city. Allowing murderers and not punishing them appropriately does nothing to improve the economic health of the city.
Prejudicial 'joke' by Joe Biden.
And Trump made the decision to cater to them. He was under no obligation to do what they asked.
Actually, if you own a casino, you tend to cater to those with money. It may not be 'right', and may be prejudicial, but not racist. They give high rollers free rooms and comp shows and dinners, which is the same class of action.
Just a coincidence that the excuse attacked the race of his competitors then?
May be prejudice, not racist.
He told him that he was over-educated. The exact quote:
"You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything. At some point you have to say ‘That’s enough.'”

That's a reasonable criticism of someone who has a multiple bachelors degrees and has been in school for a couple decades. Not of someone who is 29 with a BS, an MBA, and pursuing a law degree. That's not an abnormal amount of education.
Yeah, the criticism, which I heard from my parents-you have so much talent, but you're not doing anything with it. Nothing about his race or education level.
Arguably, that would be sexist.
Maybe. So was Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs, then.
1. It wasn't going to be "on top of" Ground Zero.
2. Why not?
For the same reason you don't put a mosque next to a Catholic church. Sacred space. It was very close, in fact, I believe it faced the memorial. And there was evidence that they did it purposefully, to poke the eye of the US. It could be we were being too sensitive, but asking someone to respect our sacred shrines isn't too much to ask.
No, there isn't any controversy, except in the conspiracy theory forum (which is thataway ->).
A promotional booklet published by Barack Obama's literary agents in 1991 states, "Barack Obama, the first African-American president of Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

Read Newsmax: Citizenship Scandal: 7 Facts About Barack Obama's Birth Certificate Controversy | Newsmax.com
An article published in 2004 about then U.S. Senate hopeful Barack Obama also identified him as Kenyan-born.

Read Newsmax: Citizenship Scandal: 7 Facts About Barack Obama's Birth Certificate Controversy | Newsmax.com
Also, his mother didn't meet the citizenship requirements in place at the time. But so what? It's over.
What reason would Trump have to suspect that Obama was a poor student? "People told him" isn't a valid answer - the factual data is that he went to Harvard and Columbia, which implies that he was a good student. The word of some unknown "people" doesn't really counterbalance that.
But "I heard that..." doesn't sink to racism.
 
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Been there, done that.

.Absolutely serious.Some exceptions, though, like moving a sign in a bus all the way to the back seat and packing one row with 25 people.

Done that, though you cannot legally prove a negative.

Riiiiiiiiight.
You have convinced me that you seriously believe the argument you are presenting. So, I won't argue with you further. All I shall do is appeal to you: when you next pray, ask God to give you the courage to recognise that you are defending racism and are thereby guilty of it yourself.

Note: my comment may be an infringement of TOS. If it offends you, though such is not my intent, you will find the Report button down and to the left.
 
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Or maybe the bosses took it upon themselves.
Why would they feel the need to remove all African Americans from the casino floor when Trump came? Trump is clearly the catalyst since those same bosses hired those employees, worked with them on a daily basis, and allowed them on the floor at all other times. That suggests that they had some reason to believe that Trump did not want them there.

I disagree. Allowing criminals to walk around freely does nothing to improve the health of the city. Allowing murderers and not punishing them appropriately does nothing to improve the economic health of the city.
They were sentenced to prison. That's not "walking around free." Additionally, after they were acquitted in 2001, Trump continued to attack them for a crime that they did not commit.

Prejudicial 'joke' by Joe Biden.
Yep, that's pretty bad - Joe's got his own issues. But that doesn't excuse Trump's bad behavior.

Actually, if you own a casino, you tend to cater to those with money. It may not be 'right', and may be prejudicial, but not racist. They give high rollers free rooms and comp shows and dinners, which is the same class of action.
They don't have to do any of that. And if you definition of racism is "mistreating people because of their color," then this qualifies. The dealers were missing out on tips from the high rollers because of their race.

May be prejudice, not racist.
Mistreatment because of the color of their skin? Check. Yep, racist by your own definition.

Yeah, the criticism, which I heard from my parents-you have so much talent, but you're not doing anything with it. Nothing about his race or education level.
He was doing something with it - going to law school. And an attack doesn't have to mention race explicitly to be racist.

Maybe. So was Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs, then.
Yep.

For the same reason you don't put a mosque next to a Catholic church. Sacred space. It was very close, in fact, I believe it faced the memorial. And there was evidence that they did it purposefully, to poke the eye of the US. It could be we were being too sensitive, but asking someone to respect our sacred shrines isn't too much to ask.
1. Putting mosques next to churches is nothing new:
Mega Mosque Planned Next to Mega Church

Next door to a mosque, church learns to minister to Muslims

2. It was going to be a cultural center, not a mosque (though it was used as an overflow worship space for a mosque a couple blocks away) and the local community board voted overwhelmingly in favor.

3. It was two blocks away and would have had no view of Ground Zero.

A promotional booklet published by Barack Obama's literary agents in 1991 states, "Barack Obama, the first African-American president of Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."

Read Newsmax: Citizenship Scandal: 7 Facts About Barack Obama's Birth Certificate Controversy | Newsmax.com
An article published in 2004 about then U.S. Senate hopeful Barack Obama also identified him as Kenyan-born.

Read Newsmax: Citizenship Scandal: 7 Facts About Barack Obama's Birth Certificate Controversy | Newsmax.com
Also, his mother didn't meet the citizenship requirements in place at the time. But so what? It's over.
If it's over, why bring it up?

But "I heard that..." doesn't sink to racism.
That's not what I said. I said that "I heard that..." is not enough to establish that a person who went to Harvard and Columbia was a poor student; therefore there must have been something else to make Trump think that. Like his race.
 
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I want to say something right now, about the difference between prejudices and racism. We all have prejudices. I personally like Filipino women over American women. We all tend to like those who are more like us, and be distrustful of those who are less like us. We have choices in foods we eat, clothes we wear, etc. I don't like, for the most part, people with tattoos. That said, one of my best friends is covered in tattoos. He, and I, overcame those-he proved himself to me to be just a regular guy. I swallowed my dislike. Prejudices can be overcome, racism normally can't. I was, as a child growing up in the deep South, prejudiced against black people. I was a victim of affirmative action in reverse-the business owner told me he had to hire a black person for the job because of labor laws. I told jokes about black people, Jews, Italians, Irish, and so on. I didn't know any better. All my life I have worked with black people and other people of color, and always gotten along. Still, most of my friends are not black. Most are either Filipino or white. Yes, I still have prejudices, but they aren't the same as racism. Perjudice is a judgement based on the way someone looks or acts. I can say I've seen prejudice in Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, and on down the line. WE ALL have prejudices.
If we choose to mistreat people based on their color or sex, this is a sin in God's eyes. To me that's racism. The word is thrown about too often these days.
Racism is simply a form of prejudice. You can be prejudiced against someone because of their race, gender, religion, because they wear tattoos, etc. Racism is just another name for racial prejudice.

You're right that we all have prejudices, but what truly matters is your response to that prejudice. We should all try to be aware of our prejudices and work to overcome them - as you did with your friend with the tattoos. However, if you make no effort to do so and allow your prejudices to guide your actions, that's a bad thing. That makes you tatooist, religionist, racist, sexist, etc.

I do agree that some people are too willing to throw around the labels "racist" or "sexist" these days, but that doesn't mean that every use of them is invalid. If someone has a pattern of following prejudices and ignoring criticism about it, then it's pretty safe to say that they're an "-ist."
 
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and we all know what groups Donald wants targeted.

Well I guess that is a starting point, but isn't this current situations entire reality. Perceived racism is not racism, it is someones perception, and when someone acts out in violence due to their perception (rather than an understanding) it only brings more misunderstanding. And the situation continues. For this to ever work, everyone needs to address their own actions and confront themselves before they can come together and deal with others.

There is not only one guilty party in this situation. And no one can come to an understanding by justifying the vilification of one group, while condoning the actions of others.
 
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You have convinced me that you seriously believe the argument you are presenting. So, I won't argue with you further. All I shall do is appeal to you: when you next pray, ask God to give you the courage to recognise that you are defending racism and are thereby guilty of it yourself.

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I know I am not defending racism at all. I abhor racism and racists. And no, I am not guilty of it, myself. And while I am surprised you would suggest such, I will not report you. I'm full of forgiveness. People can and do make mistakes. I'm sure I have, I'm sure Trump has, and I'm sure every member of Congress has. I hear little of mea culpa, though.
 
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Why would they feel the need to remove all African Americans from the casino floor when Trump came? Trump is clearly the catalyst since those same bosses hired those employees, worked with them on a daily basis, and allowed them on the floor at all other times. That suggests that they had some reason to believe that Trump did not want them there.
Riiiight...
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They were sentenced to prison. That's not "walking around free." Additionally, after they were acquitted in 2001, Trump continued to attack them for a crime that they did not commit.
And as such were sugject to the death penalty. I don't know why they were acquitted. Do you?
Yep, that's pretty bad - Joe's got his own issues. But that doesn't excuse Trump's bad behavior.
I don't excuse any politicians bad behavior.
They don't have to do any of that. And if you definition of racism is "mistreating people because of their color," then this qualifies. The dealers were missing out on tips from the high rollers because of their race.
It doesn't say they were sent home or something. Thus not missing out on tips.
Mistreatment because of the color of their skin? Check. Yep, racist by your own definition.
Maybe, if you can prove that that was the cause.
He was doing something with it - going to law school. And an attack doesn't have to mention race explicitly to be racist.
Not in the context of the show.
Yep.


1. Putting mosques next to churches is nothing new:
Mega Mosque Planned Next to Mega Church

Next door to a mosque, church learns to minister to Muslims

2. It was going to be a cultural center, not a mosque (though it was used as an overflow worship space for a mosque a couple blocks away) and the local community board voted overwhelmingly in favor.

3. It was two blocks away and would have had no view of Ground Zero.
So what?the point is not racism.
If it's over, why bring it up?
I didn't.
That's not what I said. I said that "I heard that..." is not enough to establish that a person who went to Harvard and Columbia was a poor student; therefore there must have been something else to make Trump think that. Like his race.
The point was why was he allowed in when he was a poor student. He talks a lot about that.
 
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