Posted on 05/25/2016 12:52:06 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Jimmy Carter said Monday that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had tapped into "inherent racism" to bolster his candidacy.
In an interview with The New York Times, Carter, the 39th president, also said Trump violated "basic human rights" by labeling Mexican and Muslim immigrants as criminals and terrorists.
"When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights," Carter said.
The 91-year-old Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for promoting human rights across the globe through his work with the Carter Center.
Carter, the oldest living US Democratic president, told The Times that "racially conscious Republicans" hadn't been able to handle an African-American as president, though he said President Barack Obama's election was a hopeful sign in race relations. Carter said Republican animosity toward Obama had "a heavy racial overtone."
Trump, he said, was a stunning success because he "tapped a waiting reservoir there of inherent racism."
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Poor Jimmah. Can’t blame him ‘cause he has mad rabbit disease.
How does a 91 year old survive cancer? Either he faked it for sympathy or, more likely, he sold his soul to Old Scratch himself.
You’re vicious! She has little gray tombstones for teeth.
Just shut up and die, Jimmie. Go to your grave knowing that with the election of Barack Obama, you are no longer stuck with the mantle of the “Worst US President”.
Tell that to the families of the 25 Americans killed everyday by illegal alien criminals and drunk drivers, Jimmy Carter, you old fraud.
Jimmy Carter has touched upon a pocket of inherent douchebaggery.
He wouldn’t survive two weeks of a campaign!
And he knows it!!!!
That sounds like Jimmy Carter in his 1970 campaign for governor of Georgia. He portrayed his moderate opponent as being pro-black, while Carter played up his endorsements by segregationists like Lester Maddox. Carter was quoted as saying he could win without a single black vote.
In 1980 his wife said that Ronald Reagan “made voters comfortable with their prejudice.”
How did THAT work out?
Is “inherent racism” like Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle? Talk about non-disprovable calumnies.
“When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights,” Carter said.
US CITIZENS are being singled out as Second Class citizens to ILLEGAL ALIENS!
WE are the particular group that has been Singled out over the last 25 years and put down upon while ILLEGAL ALIENS can get things like TAX REBATES and INSTATE TUITION!!!
If a citizen drives drunk and runs over people, the book is usually thrown at them.
There have been cases of ILLEGAL ALIENS running over people while drunk and they CATCH them AGAIN and AGAIN because the POLICY is CATCH and RELEASE....
WE ARE FEELING LIKE DAMNED FOOLS WHEN WE RETAIN OUR CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE WE ARE TREATED LIKE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS.....IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!!!!!
Yeah, President Peanut, we are being singled out and we are angry!
Amy could pass for a homely man.
No, it is called nationalism and America first to combat the globalist elites.
Maddox was Jimmy's Lieutenant Governor ...
I don't want to know what (or who) the lions were for ...
Poor kid.
It’s well known that long ago Jimmy Carter tapped into a cornucopia of dumbassery.
Carter is wrong, as usual. That reservoir is labeled “Common Sense.” You can’t have a country without borders, dummy.
How about setting aside rural Anglo-Celtic Americans as a unique existential threat to everyone else in the country and treating them as if everyone else's rights depends on them not having any???
If it weren't for us "rednecks" to keep Blacks, Hispanics, and moslems on the plantation, the Left would have to deal with the fact that all these other groups are just as bigoted to out-groups. Social conservatism is a universal phenomenon (even Communist countries are socially conservative). But the Left pretends that every Black, Hispanic, and moslem in the country is a decadent post-modern intellectual. And I'm afraid that so long as those groups have us to hate and resent, there'll never be any conflict in the heels' dressing room.
And it didn't make one iota of difference.
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