General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn oral history of bigotry
DAVID A. GRAHAM, ADRIENNE GREEN, CULLEN MURPHY, AND PARKER RICHARDS
JUNE 2019 ISSUE
... Trump has assembled a long record of comment on issues involving African Americans as well as Mexicans, Hispanics more broadly, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, women, and people with disabilities. His statements have been reflected in his behaviorfrom public acts (placing ads calling for the execution of five young black and Latino men accused of rape, who were later shown to be innocent) to private preferences (When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor, a former employee of Trumps Castle, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, told a writer for The New Yorker). Trump emerged as a political force owing to his full-throated embrace of birtherism, the false charge that the nations first black president, Barack Obama, was not born in the United States. His presidential campaign was fueled by nativist sentiment directed at nonwhite immigrants, and he proposed barring Muslims from entering the country ...
BARBARA RES: We met with the architect to go over the elevator-cab interiors at Trump Tower, and there were little dots next to the numbers. Trump asked what the dots were, and the architect said, Its braille. Trump was upset by that. He said, Get rid of it. The architect said, Im sorry; its the law. This was before the Americans With Disabilities Act, but New York City had a law. Trumps exact words were: No blind people are going to live in this building ...
TIMOTHY L. OBRIEN: One of the things Trump learned when he injected himself into the Central Park Five case was that he could get attention for himself because he was a spokesman for a certain type of Archie Bunker New Yorker ...
BIBRADLEY WATERMAN: Trump and Stone created an organization that was said to be pro-family and anti-gaming. Its real mission was to put the kibosh on gaming by the Mohawks in the Catskills and in that way protect Trumps casinos in Atlantic City. To that end, the organizationactually Trump and Stonepurchased ads that portrayed the Mohawks as criminals, drug dealers, etc. The Mohawks regarded the ads as racist. So did I. So did everyone else who weighed in ...
BEN RHODES: It cannot be overstated that this is the creation story of Donald Trump becoming president of the United States. His whole brand is: I will say the things that the other guys wont. Without birtherism there is no Trump presidency ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)so why is he still in that position?
rurallib
(62,415 posts)what a jerk trump is