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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Looks like Gary Busey’s been spending too much time with “Caitlin.”
Jimmy Carter, still a fool after all these years. Georgians tried to warn us but the country wasn’t listening.
The left has singled out Christians and Whites as second class citizens.
Maybe it's time to meet your maker, Jimmy...just sayin'.
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