donald trump: racist and disgusting

**blugiant** · 07-02-2015, 12:05 PM

Here’s the first iteration of the comments, from when Trump announced his run for the presidency earlier this month:

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems. … When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

When Trump was asked to explain those comments over the weekend by CNN’s Jake Tapper, he basically reiterated the stance.

"I like Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I do business with the Mexican people, but you have people coming through the border that are from all over. And they're bad. They're really bad," he said. "You have people coming in, and I'm not just saying Mexicans, I'm talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists and they're coming into this country.”

When asked why he was painting the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country with such a broad brush when the number of rapists and criminals in that group was a small percentage, Trump responded, “I don’t think it’s a small percentage, it’s a lot. But it’s not Mexicans necessarily. They’re coming from all over.”

The New York Times reported that Trump stood by his comments even after the firing. “I told NBC I could not change my stance,” he said. “The fact is that my stance on immigration is correct.”

**blugiant** · 07-02-2015, 12:11 PM

Donald Trump Has Always Been Racist, So Why Is He Being Fired Now?

Well, it seems that the only way a high-profile person can get away with making racist comments in America is to make them against non-Hispanic Black people.

In short, rarely does anyone get fired. In fact, some people may actually agree, cite freedom of speech or forgiveness, and rush to defend the racist from “unfair” persecution. Hell, the person may even end up making more money after saying something racist against Blacks. Former Clippers owner Donald Sterling, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper and Charlie Sheen all did. On the other hand, a high-profile person makes a racist statement about Latinos, and suddenly pink slips are flying everywhere.

This is why I am not giving NBCUniversal any praise for finally giving real estate mogul and petulant loudmouth Donald Trump his walking papers. As far as I am concerned, they should have fired the chronic race-baiter long ago.

If you haven’t heard, Trump made these derogatory statements about Hispanics and undocumented immigrants during an announcement for his presidential run:

“The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked him to clarify his statements, Trump doubled down and said:

“I like Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I do business with the Mexican people, but you have people coming through the border that are from all over. And they’re bad. They’re really bad. You have people coming in, and I’m not just saying Mexicans, I’m talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists and they’re coming into this country.”

In a statement released on its website, NBCUniversal announced that they were parting ways with Trump:

At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values. Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump. To that end, the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageants, which are part of a joint venture between NBC and Trump, will no longer air on NBC. In addition, as Mr. Trump has already indicated, he will not be participating in “The Apprentice” on NBC. “Celebrity Apprentice” is licensed from Mark Burnett’s United Artists Media Group and that relationship will continue.

Well, isn’t that very nearsighted of them…

Don’t get me wrong: I am glad they fired him. His comments about Hispanics were despicable. But Trump, who stars in his ego-driven reality show The Apprentice, which recently finished its 14th season, has been making racist comments for years now. It’s just that his targets have mostly been Black people. So where was NBCUniversal’s concern about dignity and all that jazz then?

In particular, where were they in 2011 when the Donald basically accused President Obama in an interview of being an affirmative action baby who wasn’t qualified to be admitted into any of the Ivy League schools he graduated from? Or the time in 2012 when Trump played birther and offered up $5 million to anyone who could prove that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States?

And granted, NBCUniversal wasn’t airing any of Trump’s shenanigans back in 1989 when he took out full-page advertisements in four New York newspapers calling for the Central Park Five, who were wrongfully accused and convicted of beating and raping a jogger, to be put to death. But NBCUniversal was airing his shows last year when Trump wrote an editorial for the New York Daily News calling the city of New York’s settlement for wrongful imprisonment of the innocent men a disgrace. He said that “Settling doesn’t mean innocence,” and doubled down on the idea that the men were guilty despite being exonerated for the crime.

That editorial came a year after Trump went on an inflammatory and flat-out racist rant on Twitter against “the Blacks” for allegedly causing all of the crime in New York. As reported by Urban Daily, Trump tweeted:

“According to Bill O’Reilly, 80% of all the shootings in New York City are blacks-if you add Hispanics, that figure goes to 98%. 1% white. Sadly, the overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and hispanics-a tough subject-must be discussed. When it comes to violent crime, and if we are going to solve the problem, we must stop being so politically correct-must tell it like it is!”

Or how about last year when Trump went on Twitter again and blasted the show Black-ish, which is loosely based on show producer Kenya Barris’ upper-middle class life in predominately suburban white America, for being racist. And I quote: “How is ABC Television allowed to have a show entitled ‘Blackish’? Can you imagine the furor of a show, “Whiteish”! Racism at highest level?”

But why would a network air a show called Whiteish when we can just tune into NBCUniversal during any part of the channel’s broadcasts?

Stil, NBCUniversal had no problem continuing its relationship with Trump even as he continued his baseless attacks on Black people. Like last year when he blamed the Ebola outbreak on President Obama and suggested that the United States needed to ban West Africans from coming into the country. And they stood by him earlier this year when he took to Twitter to blast President Obama – again – over the Baltimore riots. He said, in part,”Our great African-American president hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!”

It would seem that Trump has never really lived up to NBCUniversal’s alleged commitment to respect and dignity for all people. And yet, through all of his dog whistling and direct attacks against Blacks, Trump and his toupee still got to keep their jobs. Perhaps NBCUniversal didn’t want to further upset one of America’s fastest growing minority groups? Or perhaps hating on Black people is just not that important to them? But you have to wonder, what really took so long?

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**blugiant** · 07-02-2015, 12:15 PM

Trump's Racism Is Nothing New: 4 Times He Got Away With Anti-Black Smears
NBC knew of his long history of dogwhistle racism against African-Americans and did nothing.

Ever since Lee Atwater revamped the Republican party messaging machine in the 1980s, the right wing has made something of an art of being as racist as possible while still leaving enough semantic wiggle room for later deniability. No one embodies this ethos more than Donald Trump, who time and time again panders to white racists while managing not to slip up and say the actual off-limits epithets our media confuses for the totality of racist thought.

Ironically, the trait that most likely will keep him from the nomination—his self-parodying clown shtick—is the thing that actually makes his brand of racism so dangerous. Because everything he says and does gets folded into a “Oh, that Donald is such a joke” mold, his racism goes entirely unchecked. But it shouldn't. Even if one considers Trump a punchline - and he no doubt is - he does have a large, influential platform whether sane people like it or not.

Here are the four worst ways he has used this platform to slander African Americans:

1. Birther fear-mongering

Trump's most shameless racial dogwhistling was his almost two-year quest to expose President Obama's “true" birthplace. Birtherism, the pejorative assigned to those who persist in claiming Obama was not born in America, has long been associated with the extremist wing of the far right. It’s a fringe position that party leaders Karl Rove and Jeb Bush denounce in the severest of terms. Yet somehow its most vocal champion, Donald Trump, was allowed time after time to promote this racist trope. As the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in 2011:

....it is impossible to miss the racism at work here. This is not Vince Foster. This is not Swiftboating. This is the dude who passed healthcare reform as "the biggest Affirmative Action in history." This is the whitey tape. This is you are an "Indonesian welfare thug." This is the host of "Celebrity Apprentice," questioning the intellect of the past editor of the Harvard Law Review. This is the scion of inherited money as populist, and the scion of a teen single-mother as elitist. This is, if you were white, you and the black dude who came before wouldn't be here. This is we don't believe you.

In other words, this is a racism of the bone.

Birtherism was always about race. It was about “othering” a man as American as anyone else. It was about “Africanizing” a man whose journey to the White House was different from the 43 white presidents who went before him. It was about using coded pseudo-controversy to get as close to calling the president the n-word as one could without entirely abandoning their “mainstream” day pass. It was David Duke with better marketing. Yet here we are, a half-dozen interviews in and none of the mainstream press is taking Trump to task for it.

2: Doubting Obama’s Ivy League worthiness.

Again, Trump brilliantly plays into the “white victim” mentality at the heart of the modern Tea Party movement while avoiding anything technically racist. As the AP reported:

Trump: Obama Wasn’t Qualified for Ivy League

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

Here we have one of the most famous personalities in the country casually floating the idea that the first black president is a fraud, a cheater, and likely some combination of both, and the “objective” press is forced to act like these comments are being made in a historical and political vacuum. This is the nature of dog-whistle racism. Logically, race-baiting is the only explanation for Trump’s baseless smears, but otherwise intelligent people are resigned to act as if it’s just an earnest citizen asking questions about his president.

3. Central Park Five (before and after they were exonerated).

Both pre-Twitter and post-Twitter Trump would stoke white fears in New York over the Central Park Five case, long after the suspects were found not guilty. The rape and murder case from 1989 had all the elements of white moral panic: a group of black teenagers had allegedly raped a white female jogger in north Central Park and left her for dead. The NYPD were quick to arrest the five black youths and Trump was quick to assert himself into the tragedy by taking out an ad demanding New York bring back the death penalty for “criminals of every age." As the New York Times reported in 2002 after it turned out the men were in fact innocent:

On May 1, 1989, Donald J. Trump took out full-page advertisements in four New York newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty. Mr. Trump said he wanted the ''criminals of every age'' who were accused of beating and raping a jogger in Central Park 12 days earlier ''to be afraid.''

Thirteen years later, as new evidence raises the possibility that the five teenagers convicted in the attack had nothing to do with it, their supporters are focusing some of their fiercest anger at Mr. Trump.''Trump is a chump!'' protesters shouted during a recent demonstration, accusing Mr. Trump of, at least, further inflaming passions and perhaps tainting the defendants' future jurors. Some called him a racist. Supporters of the Central Park defendants have demanded an apology.

To make the situation that worse, Trump doubled down a decade later, writing an op-ed in the Daily Newscalling the city of New York’s $40 million settlement with the Central Park Five a “disgrace.” His smears, per usual, were all hot smoke and entirely baseless sourcing of “friends”:

My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it’s a disgrace. A detective close to the case, and who has followed it since 1989, calls it “the heist of the century.”

Again, the question is not “Why is Trump being a racist boob?” but, “Why is the mainstream media providing him a forum to do so?” That the democratic-leaning Daily News would let Trump smear the names of five people found innocent after years of trials, is everything that’s wrong with the media’s relationship with Trump. In the piece Trump never reconciles his being wrong with the new facts, just speaks in racist vagaries:

Speak to the detectives on the case and try listening to the facts. These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.

The “no angel” line (also used in the Times' description of Michael Brown last summer) is a popular dog-whistle when faced with a black man who's been wrongfully jailed or killed. Confronted with black innocence, the racist mind will insist that by some law of averages, "he was probably guilty of something anyway, so let's all move on."

Trump would go on to troll the Central Park Five on Twitter, saying in a now deleted tweet:

To Trump, and a great deal of his 3 million Twitter followers, the only logical reason African-American youths would be in a park at night is to commit a crime. This is just taken for granted in their world. But because it was just vague enough to not sound explicitly racist, it was never brought up again.

4. Blaming Obama for the Baltimore Uprising

In a week full of racist dog-whistling, Trump still managed to stand out with his gross claim that President Obama—and Baltimore’s black mayor—were somehow responsible for the Baltimore “riots."

Donald Trump Blames Baltimore Riots on Obama

Celebrity real estate developer Donald Trump is blaming President Barack Obama for the unrest in Baltimore. Trump, a frequent Obama critic, ripped the president on Twitter early Tuesday.

He wrote: "Our great African American president hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are happily and openly destroying Baltimore."

The whole thing, in typical Trumpian prose, is a muddled mess of innuendo and half-thought. Are we supposed to think Obama is responsible for all 42 million African Americans in the U.S.? What does the President’s lack of a “positive impact” have to do with anything? What does that even mean? Like much of what Trump says he knows that a key part of messaging is simply throwing enough words together and an association will form in the listener's mind. In this case: Obama equals "thug".

If Donald Trump were to slip up and utter the n-word, his campaign would be dead the second the word left his lips. Why then, can he say it in a million different ways without consequence?

Adam Johnson is an associate editor at AlterNet. Follow him on Twitter at @adamjohnsonnyc.

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**blugiant** · 07-02-2015, 12:19 PM

Donald Trump: “If Black Lives Don’t Matter Here Go Back to Africa”
By lovethatnews -

“If I don’t like the food the waitress brings me I send it back to the kitchen. And I go eat somewhere else” Said Donald Trump attempting to clarify the idiotic statement he made moments ago.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has put his foot in his mouth two times first his rape statements about Mexicans and secondly his thoughts on the recent uproar in white on black crimes going unsolved.

“If you think we kill you too much? Go somewhere where you’re gonna just kill more of each other” – Donald

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Just for good measure Donald gave the world his reason for why he could never be a racist “It’s impossible for me to be racist. I employ 100’s of Blacks and Mexicans as maids in my Trump Tower hotels”

http://lovethatnews.com/donald-trump-black-lives-dont-matter-go-back-to-africa/

donald trump: racist and disgusting

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