{"id":27340,"date":"2018-01-12T01:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27340"},"modified":"2018-01-12T02:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T02:48:28","slug":"trump-cements-racist-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27340","title":{"rendered":"Trump cements a racist pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/racism_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27341\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/racism_1-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/racism_1-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/racism_1-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/racism_1-1024x471.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/racism_1.jpg 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK &#8212; and if you&#8217;ll pardon me for saying this &#8212; let&#8217;s &#8220;tell it like it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump has exhibited a clear pattern of racist views.<\/p>\n<p>The president today said the United States needs to curb immigration from &#8220;s***hole countries&#8221; such as Haiti and those in Africa. He then said we need to encourage immigrants from, oh, Norway.<\/p>\n<p>We are witnessing yet another demonstration that the president of the United States has racist thoughts. He has revealed yet again what lurks in what passes for this man&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n<p>It fits a pattern.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He called white supremacists, Klansmen and Nazis &#8220;fine people&#8221; after the Charlottesville, Va., riot this past summer.<\/li>\n<li>Trump insisted for years that the nation&#8217;s first African-American president was born abroad and wasn&#8217;t legally entitled to campaign for, let alone, <em>occupy<\/em> the office to which he was elected twice.<\/li>\n<li>When he announced his campaign for president, Trump said Mexican immigrants were rapists, murderers and drug dealers.<\/li>\n<li>The five young black men who were acquitted of raping a white woman in Central Park many years ago should be executed for a crime they never committed, Trump said; he&#8217;s never apologized for that statement.<\/li>\n<li>The professional football players who kneeled prior to games to protest police conduct against black Americans are &#8220;sons of b******,&#8221; Trump said.<\/li>\n<li>Trump has said Haitians &#8220;all have AIDS,&#8221; and said Nigerians live &#8220;in huts.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the man elected president of the United States? This individual is supposed to represent the very best of the greatest nation on Earth?<\/p>\n<p>I am tired of dancing around the issue. It&#8217;s time to call this man what he is. He&#8217;s not just a pathological liar. He is a racist.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also a disgrace.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8212; and if you&#8217;ll pardon me for saying this &#8212; let&#8217;s &#8220;tell it like it is.&#8221; Donald John Trump has exhibited a clear pattern of racist views. The president today said the United States needs to curb immigration from &#8220;s***hole countries&#8221; such as Haiti and those in Africa. He then said we need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump cements a racist pattern<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7521,1424,2245,2692,3231,3808,5255],"class_list":["post-27340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-charlottesville-riotigration","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-kkk","tag-nazis","tag-racism","tag-white-supremacists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27340","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=27340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27344,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27340\/revisions\/27344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}