{"id":15754,"date":"2016-07-07T02:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T02:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15754"},"modified":"2016-07-07T02:12:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T02:12:55","slug":"time-to-condemn-racists-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15754","title":{"rendered":"Time to condemn racists, too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump isn’t bashful about condemning groups or people with which he has issues.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0 Illegal immigrants? They’re “rapists, murderers, drug dealers. And there’s a few good ones, I’m sure,” he has said.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Radical Islamic terrorists? He wants to ban all Muslims from entering the country just to be sure that none of those terrorists sneak in.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0“Politically correct” rhetoric? Why, he just cannot stand those who hide behind his version of “political correctness.”<\/p>\n

What about racists? White supremacists?<\/p>\n

When he was asked about statements from longtime Klansman David Duke that seemed to support the Republican candidate’s views, Trump said he “didn’t know” Duke; he said he didn’t know about white supremacists.<\/p>\n

And then, just recently, when the crap hit the fan over an ad that featured a picture of Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, a pile of $100 bills and a symbol that looked to many of us like a Star of David, Trump took the ad down. Critics jumped on the ad as an anti-Semitic statement. Then we learned that the ad first appeared on a white supremacist website.<\/p>\n

Trump has yet to condemn Duke — other than to say he “condemns Duke.” And he has yet to issue anything resembling a declaration of condemnation of those groups.<\/p>\n

Is the GOP nominee-to-be a flaming racist? I won’t say “yes.”<\/p>\n

It is fair and reasonable, though, to wonder just why he doesn’t condemn those individuals and hate groups with the same zeal he condemns others.<\/p>\n

Come on, man! I know you can do it.<\/p>\n

If you want<\/em> to.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump isn’t bashful about condemning groups or people with which he has issues. *\u00a0 Illegal immigrants? They’re “rapists, murderers, drug dealers. And there’s a few good ones, I’m sure,” he has said. *\u00a0Radical Islamic terrorists? He wants to ban all Muslims from entering the country just to be sure that none of those … Continue reading Time to condemn racists, too<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1276,1424,2077,2692,5255],"class_list":["post-15754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-david-duke","tag-donald-trump","tag-hate-groups","tag-kkk","tag-white-supremacists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15755,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15754\/revisions\/15755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}