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KC Star columnist: Trump's NFL tirade shows the nation who he really is: A white supremacist
http://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/jenee-osterheldt/article175086291.htmlHis track record is clear: denying black people housing, his Islamaphobia, xenophobia and outright disregard for Mexican humanity. His first inclination after Charlottesville was to condemn “violence on many sides.” Yes, let’s just ignore the “Jews will not replace us” chants, the “White Lives Matter” cheers, torches and the clubs.
It’s so easy to see “very fine people” among white supremacists yet equate danger to blackness. Trump has an old slave master-like obsession with breaking strong black men and silencing black women.
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Perhaps this is what happens when a rich reality TV star who gets off on debasing and firing people storms into the White House. Or maybe we’re watching the institutional racism that has been remixed and masked in mass incarceration, mortgage discrimination, redlining and more stack together like Voltron and become a president.
But we’re not going to back down. We won’t shut up. And we’re not going back to Africa. As CNN commentator Angela Rye said, we built this joint for free. And we’ll be here to fight for our rights.
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It’s time that everyone, no matter what color, religion or orientation, take a knee. We need to be better than Trump, a president who stands for oppression. You think politics has no place on the football field? White supremacy shouldn’t be welcome in the White House.
It’s so easy to see “very fine people” among white supremacists yet equate danger to blackness. Trump has an old slave master-like obsession with breaking strong black men and silencing black women.
-snip-
Perhaps this is what happens when a rich reality TV star who gets off on debasing and firing people storms into the White House. Or maybe we’re watching the institutional racism that has been remixed and masked in mass incarceration, mortgage discrimination, redlining and more stack together like Voltron and become a president.
But we’re not going to back down. We won’t shut up. And we’re not going back to Africa. As CNN commentator Angela Rye said, we built this joint for free. And we’ll be here to fight for our rights.
-snip-
It’s time that everyone, no matter what color, religion or orientation, take a knee. We need to be better than Trump, a president who stands for oppression. You think politics has no place on the football field? White supremacy shouldn’t be welcome in the White House.
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loved the line from CNN commentator Angela Rye: "We built this joint for free. And we'll be here to fight for our rights."
Good one, but she'd better be careful. Remember the s**t-storm when that marvelous First Lady Michelle Obama talked about living in the house that was built by slaves? Oh, that's right, "those" slaves were well fed and cared for! 
