{"id":27413,"date":"2018-01-15T03:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T03:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27413"},"modified":"2018-01-15T03:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T03:42:34","slug":"not-racist-oh-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27413","title":{"rendered":"‘I am not a racist’ Oh, really?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump says it clearly and with seeming conviction.<\/p>\n

“I am not a racist. I am the least racist person you’ve ever interviewed,” said the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

OK, then. That settles it, right? Trump isn’t a racist. He didn’t<\/em> actually question Barack Obama’s place of birth and his legitimacy as president; he didn’t<\/em> actually call those countries in Africa, as well as Haiti and El Salvador “sh**holes”; he didn’t<\/em> actually say an Indiana-born federal judge couldn’t decide a case involving Trump University because “he’s a Mexican.”<\/p>\n

Well, I believe the president’s denial of racist leanings reminds many of us the time President Nixon told us “I am not a crook.” We know how that turned out in the 1970s, yes?<\/p>\n

Trump has taken a tremendous amount of criticism for his sh**hole comment, which he reportedly made during a White House meeting on immigration.<\/p>\n

This blog has used the “racist” term, too, to describe the president’s leanings. Indeed, the record that includes a large body of demonstrable evidence of racial bias can be used as a counterweight to the president’s assertion that he doesn’t harbor bias against people who don’t look like him.<\/p>\n

The sh**hole comment about nations that produce immigrants to the United States — coupled with an assertion that the United States needs to encourage more immigration from “countries like Norway” — only fuels the fire that’s burning close the White House.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump can tell us all he wants that he is not a racist. The lengthy record of previous pronouncements, though, tells us something quite different.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump says it clearly and with seeming conviction. “I am not a racist. I am the least racist person you’ve ever interviewed,” said the president of the United States. OK, then. That settles it, right? Trump isn’t a racist. He didn’t actually question Barack Obama’s place of birth and his legitimacy as president; … Continue reading ‘I am not a racist’ Oh, really?<\/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],"tags":[1424,2245,3808,3940],"class_list":["post-27413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-racism","tag-richard-nixon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413","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=27413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27415,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413\/revisions\/27415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}