A Trump campaign chair in Ohio says there was 'no racism' before Obama

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Donald Trump’s campaign chair in a prominent Ohio county has claimed there was “no racism” during the 1960s and said black people who have not succeeded over the past half-century only have themselves to blame.

Kathy Miller, chair of the Republican nominee’s campaign in Mahoning County, who is white, made the remarks during a taped interview with the Guardian’s Anywhere but Washington series of election videos.


“If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault. You’ve had every opportunity, it was given to you,” she said.

“You’ve had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn’t have. You had all the advantages and didn’t take advantage of it. It’s not our fault, certainly.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-ohio-campaign-chair-no-racism-before-obama?CMP=twt_gu

[anoNY42]

1. Wow

Talk about outreach to black voters!

[sarae]

2. wow...

Miller also called the Black Lives Matter movement “a stupid waste of time” and said lower voter turnout among African Americans could be related to “the way they’re raised”.

Deplorable.

[Ilsa]

16. OMG. I guess she didn't get the memo about

Scrubbing voters in predominantly AA neighborhoods off the registers. Or closing more polling places to make voting more difficult. Or , etc etc etc.

Not that she'd admit that such devices would cause "lower turnout".

[HughBeaumont]

3. A story where the headline is the LEAST stupid thing said.

It's not even unbelievable any more. These people crawled of a sewer.

[gordianot]

4. Very important questions and observations allowing insight into the psyche of Republicans

Only yesterday did I see a Trump supporter question where was Obama on 9-11, Why did Obama let it happen? Now this the creation of racial poverty in America. Wow.

[barbtries]

6. Jordan Klepper on the Daily Show right?

that was shocking. the more of this shit i see the worse i feel and the more i fear for the future of this country. these people are imbeciles more comfortable with irrational hate than actually entertaining an original thought of their own.

[Kansaskid]

5. This should help

Absolute stupidity. Must have been home schooled. This should help with anyone who has an understanding of reality.

[saltpoint]

7. Some folks might want to suggest

to Ms. Miller that she may be uh, misguided in that line of thought.

[athena]

8. This is so disgusting.

I am appalled. I'm not even sure it's right that this garbage is being reported. I'm afraid that reporting it implicitly condones that sick way of thinking. This person is a sorry excuse for a human being. Yuck.

[lpbk2713]

9. "Life on the Plantation was just fine until Lincoln freed the slaves."

"That dayum troublemaker."

[GeorgeGist]

10. This clown deserves a picture ....

[classykaren]

23. Makeup is even clownish.

[3catwoman3]

11. The pig is wearing...

...a lot of lipstick.

What a horrible person!

[Sunny05]

12. How much meth are these trump supporters doing?? (nt)

[CanonRay]

13. There you have it folks

40% of the US electorate in a nutshell.

[Yallow]

14. Rec The Crap Out Of This

It is harder for minorities to succeed in a lot of ways obviously (for anyone with a working brain).

That is why when they do succeed we actually should give them more credit.

[Stuart G]

15. k and r..

stupid is what stupid is.......

[colorado_ufo]

17. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

The closer that we get to the election, the more the Trump campaign will abandon dog whistles and be offering directly racist rhetoric. This is a paralleling the rise of the Nazi regime.

[OnionPatch]

18. I'm from that general area.

I left a long time ago but still return regularly to visit family. I've done a lot of traveling and lived all around the US. But I've never been anywhere where I've heard the n-word used so often. It always shocks me a little to hear the blatantly racist way they talk about blacks in the most casual conversations. (Apparently they think I must be on board with that since I'm white.) The assertion that there is no racism, especially around Mahoning County, is ridiculous.

[Johonny]

19. What a racist

[Ace Rothstein]

20. I wish I could say that I'm surprised but I'm not.

This is the kind of crazy shit that right-wingers on message boards have been saying for a few years now.

[Rocknrule]

21. Everything is Obama's fault

[First Speaker]

22. Stupidity corrupts...

...and absolute stupidity corrupts absolutely...

[neeksgeek]

24. What does she think the song "Strange Fruit" was all about?????

What a moron.

[lindysalsagal]

25. Because everything that is bad was Obama's fault, from the beginning of time.

He personally lynched all those blacks all those hundreds of years. Did it himself.

[stage left]

26. This one infuriates the shit out of me.

Was she living in an alternate universe or what.

[Ellen Forradalom]

27. Oh well then.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[OverBurn]

28. That's got to be the dumbest thing ever said, if not it's WAY up the list.

[spiderpig]

29. It's what I'd expect from anyone supporting The Orange Fiend.

Calgon - take me away!!!

[sueh]

30. Another one of Trump's deplorables.

[certainot]

31. limbaugh said of people who drowned and got stuck in katrina that

they all had the opportunity to get a high paying job, buy an suv, and evacuate.....

in general, what the rw radio blowhards have been saying for years is essentially that until obama came along, few questioned the racism....

[stopbush]

32. That kind of attitude, openly expressed as if normal, is why I got the hell

out of my native state of OH right after college.

At age 62, it's disappointing to be in touch with high school classmates (via FB) who still live in OH and express that same attitude. It is a wide-spread attitude among Rs...believe me.