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‘We’re All Tired Of Being Called Racists’
The Atlantic ^ | 8-2-2019 | Elaina Plott

Posted on 08/02/2019 3:20:17 PM PDT by blam

CINCINNATI—Donald Trump’s supporters would like to be clear: They are tired of being called racists.

Leave it to the president’s eldest son to set the tone. Last night at the 17,500-person-capacity U.S. Bank Arena downtown here, Donald Trump Jr. strode onto the stage two hours before the president was scheduled to speak. The venue was already brimming.

It had been a rough week for his father. On July 28, President Trump was once again deemed racist after lashing out at House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, whose district includes part of Baltimore. Trump referred to the city 40 miles north of Washington as “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” in which “no human being would want to live.” Those comments came shortly after the president suggested that four progressive congresswomen of color “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” prompting the crowd at his July 17 rally in Greenville, North Carolina, to chant, “Send her back!” Trump—though he later disavowed the chant—did nothing to stop it.

Last night, Trump supporters in Cincinnati were eager to defend their man.

“It’s amazing that when Donald Trump makes a comment about Baltimore, it’s racist, it’s terrible, it’s this. But when the mayor of that town, when the congressman from that town, says the exact same thing, ‘Oh! No problem!’” Trump Jr. boomed, referring to a statement that Cummings made in 1999, calling Baltimore “drug-infested.”

“It’s sad,” he continued, “that using ‘racism’ has become the easy button of left-wing politics. All right? Because guess what? It still is an issue … But by making a mockery of it by saying every time you can’t win a fight—‘Oh! We’re just gonna push the button! It’s racist’—you hurt those that are actually afflicted by it.

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


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KEYWORDS: black; democrats; race; white
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To: blam

For later


41 posted on 08/02/2019 6:35:49 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: sergeantdave

Baby killer is interchangeable with democrat....


42 posted on 08/02/2019 6:49:23 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: blam

OK the originators of the charge won’t virtue signal any more. They’ll go straight to violence signaling. The nerve of you racists! You are what whoever says you are. Stop denying psychological slave.


43 posted on 08/02/2019 6:56:25 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: blam

I call it the politics of peer pressure. Everyone wants to fit in and be part of the movement when young, despite the logic that creeps in as we get older.

Then we see the reality of manipulation...


44 posted on 08/02/2019 8:14:51 PM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: dandiegirl

You’re right; when Obama was elected, some hailed it as a sign of a post-racial America - yet others immediately realized the days of black excuses were over. “White guilt” was dead, and they knew it; the fact that Obama squandered the opportunity to help blacks (with school choice/education reform, controlling the border, opposing genocide via abortion, etc.) is on him, not us.

Some seem to think the current pandering of Dem leaders & candidates are signs of “white guilt”; I assure you that until people publicly get behind those three issues above, they feel no guilt at all - just more using blacks as pawns in the same manner the communists envisioned for this country in the 1930s.


45 posted on 08/02/2019 11:48:38 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: blam

Manipulators spew a lot of nonsense, none of which is worth the toilet paper they use to blow the snot from the empty space that once contained the jalf brain they were born with.


46 posted on 08/03/2019 2:03:12 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Ancesthntr

Don’t forget “and being called a Nazi or hitler”...and stuff especially “and stuff”!


47 posted on 08/03/2019 2:41:50 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: blam

Im on the offensive, I am a realist, if you call me a racist I will agree, now what? call me another name? go right ahead and I will agree with that also, now what?


48 posted on 08/03/2019 2:55:54 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I’m not prejudiced against blacks, Hispanics, gays, whatever or whoever. What I am prejudiced against is leftists who want to destroy my country for their own power and benefit.


49 posted on 08/03/2019 3:02:40 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (You can pick your causes, but not the consequences.)
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To: ronnie raygun

“if you call me a racist I will agree, now what? call me another name? go right ahead and I will agree with that also, now what?”

That’s an interesting strategy. Embrace the word — like we did “Deplorable”. Then what will they do?


50 posted on 08/03/2019 3:20:56 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: TLI

Bump to the top!

Your post is great!


51 posted on 08/03/2019 5:53:44 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: philman_36

Don’t you believe the mattress girl?

She has my Seal(y) of approval!


52 posted on 08/03/2019 6:12:26 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: TLI

we won the popular vote
men can have periods
there are more than two genders
born this way
bake the cake bigot
2T in transfer payments setasides preferences
aren’t enough we need reparations


53 posted on 08/03/2019 6:16:16 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Phil DiBasquette

Noted and adding, thanks!

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54 posted on 08/03/2019 7:35:06 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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