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PatrickforO

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13. Yes he has. It is disgusting. But we really have to face the sad fact
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 10:55 AM
Jul 2019

that racism is as American as apple pie. That is what we have to change. And Trump, to my mind, is so disgusting that his open racism turns most people off the same as the open racism down in Mississippi and Alabama revolted people when it was nationally televised.

I have to believe most people aren't like this. Yes, there is a third, which is appalling, but I don't see how people can look at those cages in the concentration camps, or his rage-tweets and not want to just puke.

I guess what I mean here is that Trump is so open about it, it is forcing the issue to the front burner - we Americans must confront our racism, our history of slavery and genocide. Otherwise we cannot heal and become what we can be, which is a light on the hill.

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