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Trump’s racist tweets trouble Gwinnett County’s legislators of color
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 7/18/19 | Tyler Estep

Posted on 07/18/2019 2:09:34 PM PDT by madprof98

Brenda Lopez Romero was about 12 years old when she and her father stopped at a diner just north of Helen.

As they walked in, several white men stood up from their table.“Are you lost?” they said. “Did you just cross the river?”Then that phrase: “You need to go back where you came from.”A native of Mexico, Lopez Romero remembers the sting of those racist taunts.

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Lopez Romero, now a 36-year-old immigration attorney, state representative from Gwinnett County and candidate for U.S. Congress, says she never thought she would hear similar language coming from the President of the United States.

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Gwinnett is a community where a full quarter of its nearly 1 million residents are foreign-born and about two-thirds are black, Latino or Asian — and where a longtime Republican foothold is quickly diminishing, meaning comments like Trump’s tweets could have an enormous effect during a 2020 election season that’s sure to be volatile and racially charged.

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: georgia
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To: Ciaphas Cain
“Of color” seems to be the buzz phrase

Waiting for new fast food commercials featuring a full lineup of .. [frycooks of color], [customers of color], [managers of color] and [hamburgers of meat] served with [fries of potato] cooked by the [highschooler of color]. Kids meals come complete with [book of color] and [crayons of color]. /mega-S

41 posted on 07/18/2019 4:27:21 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: EDINVA

Or that Brenda Romero’s dad was an illegal alien.


42 posted on 07/18/2019 4:35:00 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: madprof98
As they walked in, several white men stood up from their table.“Are you lost?” they said. “Did you just cross the river?”Then that phrase: “You need to go back where you came from.”...well, that's all very sad, but if the evil white men didn't add "and fix whatever's wrong there, then come back here and show us how it's done", there's no comparison to what they said to what President Trump said, and the whole article is irrelevant......
43 posted on 07/18/2019 4:35:35 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Carl Vehse

It’s not just the Urinal doing this. All of the Fake driveby’s are using it.

Racist tweet...
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Ad nauseum.

I hope they’re overplaying their hand, and most Americans are seeing that.


44 posted on 07/18/2019 4:39:10 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
In his initial tweets on Sunday Trump never mentioned any name or skin color of congresswomen and their anti-American statements, but between then and 11AM on Tuesday, when the tally was reported, CNN and MSNBC have applied the word "racist" more than 1,100 times in reference to President Trump.
45 posted on 07/18/2019 4:53:34 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: madprof98

Hey! We don’t care! That’s the reaction you get from racists!


46 posted on 07/18/2019 6:14:28 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputee)
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To: ronnie raygun

Reading comprehension is your friend. Make use of it.


47 posted on 07/19/2019 8:39:45 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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