{"id":30724,"date":"2018-07-03T18:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30724"},"modified":"2018-07-03T18:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T18:24:40","slug":"racist-its-just-a-toxic-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30724","title":{"rendered":"Racist: It&#8217;s just a toxic term"},"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\/05\/trumpdonald_040918getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29507\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trumpdonald_040918getty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trumpdonald_040918getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trumpdonald_040918getty.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allow me one more comment on a quote taken from an extensive interview with a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who takes a dim view of the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>David Cay Johnston said this to Salon. com: <em>He is a racist through and through. He has been found in formal judicial proceedings to discriminate against nonwhites in rentals and employment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/04\/23\/pulitzer-winning-reporter-david-cay-johnston-the-evidence-suggests-trump-is-a-traitor\/#.WzPa5y2hIGU.facebook\">Read the Salon piece here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;he&#8221; is Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I am so struck by how easy it is to believe that Trump is a racist to his core.<\/p>\n<p>Think for just a moment about the body of evidence that has been built up, most by the president&#8217;s own mouth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He wanted to execute five young black men who had been exonerated in the rape and savage beating of a woman in Central Park, New York City.<\/li>\n<li>Trump continued to keep alive the bald-face lie that Barack Obama, the nation&#8217;s first black president, was born in Kenya and was, therefore, unqualified to run for the office to which he was elected twice.<\/li>\n<li>White supremacists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen protested the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. They launched a counter protest by those who oppose their racist views; a young woman was run over by one of the racists. Trump then said there were &#8220;fine people &#8230; on both sides&#8221; of the dispute in Charlottesville, Va. <em>Both sides?<\/em> Are you serious, Mr. President?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Time and time again, the president seems intent on denigrating people of color. He referred to residents of Haiti, El Salvador and throughout Africa as coming from &#8220;sh**hole&#8221; countries, while saying he preferred more immigrants from, say, Norway and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Yep. What in the world are we to conclude?<\/p>\n<p>My conclusion is that 62 million Americans voted in 2016 for a racist as their president.<\/p>\n<p>Shameful.<\/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>Allow me one more comment on a quote taken from an extensive interview with a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who takes a dim view of the president of the United States. David Cay Johnston said this to Salon. com: He is a racist through and through. He has been found in formal judicial proceedings to discriminate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Racist: It&#8217;s just a toxic term<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7240,7855,1424,3808,6972],"class_list":["post-30724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charlottesville-riot","tag-david-cay-johnston","tag-donald-trump","tag-racism","tag-salon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30724","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=30724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30725,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30724\/revisions\/30725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}