Race Big Part of Trump's Attack on NFL Athletes: Clinton

[riversedge]

Source: thestreet



Hillary Clinton, the former Democratic nominee for president, on Monday said President Trump's remarks about professional athletes who protest peacefully are thinly veiled attacks steeped in racism.


Sep 25, 2017 5:26 PM EDT


Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump's weekend remarks on professional athletes who protest peacefully thinly veiled attacks steeped in racism.

The former Democratic presidential nominee, at the taping of a show to air later this week on satellite radio operator Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI - Get Report) , said Trump was using the players' protests against police brutality and racial injustice to foment racial and cultural divides.

"I couldn't help but think that he has attacked these black athletes for peacefully protesting, but he doesn't really attack white supremacists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klanners or Vladimir Putin, who interfered in our election," Clinton said in New York on Monday, Sept. 25, referencing Trump's response to violent marches that took place in Charlottesville, Va., last month. "It's all part of his political calculation -- he wants to set people against each other, he wants to divide us."

Clinton said Trump's reference to any black athlete who kneeled during the playing of the national anthem as a "son of a bitch" whom National Football League owners should "fire or suspend" was a calculated plan to appeal to core supporters.

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1. BRUTAL
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Hillary Clinton Blasts Trump on NFL Comments, Kushner Emails

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In a new interview to promote her book with Zerlina Maxwell for the "SiriusXM Town Hall," set to stream Monday night, Hillary Clinton responded to both President Donald Trump's attacks on NFL players who choose to kneel during the national anthem and the recent revelations that Jared Kushner used a private email account to conduct White House business. "I think it’s deeply troubling that the president would be attacking black athletes for expressing their opinions peacefully," Clinton said, adding, "I just couldn’t help thinking that he has attacked these black athletes for peacefully protesting, but he doesn’t really attack white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klanners, or Vladimir Putin, who interfered in our election." She said she found the comments particularly disturbing because Trump made his comments during a "desperate" time for the people of Puerto Rico....................................................

[monmouth4]

1. She is absolutely correct. He is so transparent, it takes no genius to read him loud and clear. n/t

[Stuart G]

2. Proud to be the second ..K and R on this..

[Me.]

3. I Agree

and thank her for being a truth sayer

[handmade34]

4. of course it is...

so obvious that he is saying that uppity people of color should know their place.... I am outraged

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Unfathomable stupidity

to attack the players of the American institution of football

Did he not even know he should think this one through?

[riversedge]

9. He and Sarah sanders keep saying the players are protesting the American flag or our

anthem. stupid. no. He has not thought it through.

[billh58]

6. You think...?

Of course he's a fucking racist, and a coward.

[thegoose]

7. He always attacks people of color

And not white people who do the same damn thing. Every single time.

[TomCADem]

8. Black Athletes Are An Attractive Target to Stoke White Racial Resentment

It is no coincidence that Trump attacked NBA and NFL players in leagues dominated by black athletes on the same weekend. It is an excellent example of using racism not just to oppress people of color, but the white working class by stoking their resentment of minorities.