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The examples are overwhelming and seems compelling….Add to the mix the talking heads of CNN and the ilk……It’s a ‘case that’s open and shut milord’ 

However you phrase your search you have to dig deep to avoid Google’s algorithms and the plethora of published Trump racist media articles…….. I think I ploughed through about 9 pages before results consistent with my search began to appear. 

Even in this is one, (the first I came across) is one of those annoying protected sites that ask you prove you’re not a robot………

https://www.redstate.com/patte…..s-garbage/

Some of what Trump has said is to me merely honest and unafraid …….. Some is distorted…….some is dishonest reporting. It suits the Dems after all to seize  on this ‘killer-diller’ retort and coincides neatly with the disappointment to them of Russia collusion. The left have for years bullied and shut down actual debate with that ‘(til now) failsafe of ……….’you’re a racist’…Traditinally politicians clutch at their pearls and retire to the backwoods.

With Trump it hasn’t worked so they’ve recently doubled down and added ‘White Supremacist’

Trump is guilty of coarsening political debate he’s got a big mouth and fights back when he’s attacked……Naturally the swamp and the Dems don’t like it..They’ve had an easy life until now.

Until you show me any racist policy employed by Trump in office I hold to my opinion. The borders were not open under Obama…The countries included in the so called muslim ban…..(Most muslim countries were in fact unaffected), was a list of dangerous unchecked muslim countries that the Obama administration drew up prior to Trump’s presidency.

As I’ve said previously mass-shootings happened under Obama and other presidents.

Given the 2nd Amendment and quasi religious esteem it’s held in……This is not a problem that’s easily tackled…….No one has so far.

But like the border the Dems care more about not giving Trump a win than the country and so cross-party co-operation remains elusive. 

Ah well…… thanks for moving this

50yearslate said
So what you’re saying is that unless somebody introduces racist policies to government, they can’t possibly be a racist? Please do correct me if I’m misunderstanding. I really do hope I’m misunderstanding.

  

An interesting way to phrase a question……It assumes so much and cleverly forces the reader to go along with your head shaking and exasperated perception of me..

By all means grab the virtue signaling high ground. But you haven’t misunderstood me….Words matter but deeds matter more you’ve not addressed that question at all.

What policies has Trump introduced that are racist? Surely despite all the accusations the acid test of a racist is what he does.

Name and list his racist policies……

In 2016 Trump won 8% of the Black vote.

Rasmussen – the polling organization that came closest to calling the 2016 presidential election results – polls a wider and less politicized community. It announced on Twitter that black approval for Trump is now 36 percent – if not higher.

Trump is not an ideologue he’s pragmatic and a problem solver a property entrepreneur from the real world ……..Clinton said to minorities, with a little tear in his eye….. ‘I feel your pain’ Obama promised change but didn’t deliver.

Desperate for attention I think it’s the Dems that are stoking and inflaming race issues to divide and pull latinos and Blacks away from the Republicans.

It might work…..It’s a dangerous game.

Being over two threads and with so many to answer forgive me if I don’t personally reply to all of you.

I hope what I say below as a general comment partially responds to some of you.

Scarlet Fields Forever said:

Ah yes…obviously…how can someone be a “racist” if they don’t keep black people as slaves or physically attack any colored citizens…Oh I forgot, if these attacks do happen, the reason can still be need of an “immigration reform”, as Trump said, not racism…

Though I’ve heard it said, ‘nothing is racist to a Republican;’ and ‘everything is racist to a Democrat’……Perhaps the truth lay somewhere in the middle.

  

I prefer to look at this issue this way: how you judge potential racism relates to your tolerance. If you’re greatly sensitive about equality and dignity of certain people, you won’t stand a tiny  difference. If you’re always understanding and have the endurance of a saint (after all you aren’t going to be the victim), you won’t even blink an eye on someone threatening congresswomen to get back to Africa. Me, for my own and my conscience’s benefit, would like to set the bar a little higher than the current level.

(Apologies for some potentially offensive words)

Two things here on this……

I asked SFF if Trump actually used the words ‘get back to Africa’ As of now I’ve not read an answer to that question.

A simple search will show Trump didn’t didn’t say ‘Get back to Africa’. So SFF added the word ‘Africa’ either knowingly and for effect, or perhaps he’d read someone else misquoting and quoted the misquote. There’s so much swirling around on this subject since the demise of the Russia probe…..Quoting a misquote would be perfectly understandable. 

That being the case it demonstrates how the chatter and these ‘Chinese whispers’ snowball.

My first point then is that not all you read or hear in the news is completely factual.

Now my second point…….If Trump had actually said, ‘Get back to Africa’ would it prove Trump is a racist? (I’m assuming a big yell of ‘Hell yes it would’ to that question).

The common assumption here is that if you say something that someone considers racist you’re a racist….case closed.

I maintain you can say something ‘racist’ and not actually be a racist…..Which is how I see Trump.

Fittingly here’s an example of exactly that………..

Paul went on to write Ebony And Ivory …….Was that just a smokescreen? Trump denounced white supremacy his comments were written off as shallow and insincere. Honestly he can’t win with the left media…..Who look for and can only believe the worst of intentions.

An example:

After the mass shooting by right and left wing nutters Trump asked for the flags at the Whitehouse to be flown half mast until the 8th of August. Ah they pounced the 8th letter of the alphabet is ‘H’…….Trump was signalling ‘H H’ or Hiel Hitler…….To the white supremacists.

People do this….To use another Beatles analogy……..The Paul is Dead myth…..And what about the record executive who felt the cut apple B side logo was a vagina!!!

You can always find what you’re looking for…..In some case projecting…….

In Trump I see a man who’s deeply patriotic……Wants the US to win and won’t put up with China’s theft and NATO’s unfair abuse of the US tax payer………  And is brave enough not to kow tow to the PC thought police.

@Wigwam You carefully checked my words to see if my allegation is candid, and I appreciate that. However, you haven’t used the same strict criteria against Trump’s speech. If my choice of words (which I still believe didn’t go too far from what Trump said) is considered inappropriate, then I don’t see how Trump’s hateful words can be tolerated. If left media’s sheer criticism against him comes from prejudice, then how do we regard Trump’s deliberate insulting behavior towards minority, other than proof that he possesses much more prejudice?

You still hold on to the idea that speech doesn’t count as proof for racism, but in fact, like actions do, speech reflects one’s idea. Let alone Trump is the president of US, a politician. He should be much more cautious about his public speech is part of representation of the country, and affects the balance of different political forces. Either he is too ignorant to realize his due responsibility, or he chooses to dog whistle for white supremacy. In either way, he is far from conscientious.

“Patriotic”? Not his get-out-of-the-jail-free card. Let’s not forget what Samuel Johnson said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”.True patriotism is supporting the dignity of every individual citizen and principles of the country. You mean Trump, who spreads hateful language towards his fellow US citizens, is patriotic? No, he’s just a nationalist.