{"id":44041,"date":"2020-08-17T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44041"},"modified":"2020-08-17T21:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:25:29","slug":"yes-trump-is-a-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44041","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Trump is a racist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=racism%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37984\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014-300x133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014-768x341.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/racism-2014.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried for all I was worth to avoid hanging the <em>racist<\/em> label on Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This effort came in the wake of the individual&#8217;s history of hateful rhetoric aimed at African-Americans, Latinos and even Asians.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has pushed me over the proverbial cliff with his latest birther non-response to questions that have arisen regarding U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is a racist. There. I&#8217;ve said it. I also mean it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was given a chance yet again this past weekend to disavow the hideous lie that the first African-American\/South Asian to run as a major-party vice-presidential candidate is not qualified because of her citizenship. He did not say what he should have said, which was: <em>Of course she&#8217;s qualified and I welcome her to the campaign.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump danced around the question and said it was beyond his scope to comment. Ridiculous!<\/p>\n<p>Trump fomented the birther lie about President Obama, the first black president of the United States. Now he&#8217;s doing the same thing to Sen. Harris. Obama was born in Honolulu; Harris was born in Oakland, Calif. They both are U.S. citizens. The discussion should end. The president, though, keeps it alive by refusing the declare categorically that this rumor is a racist rant.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Donald Trump takes his place among the racists.<\/p>\n<p>Despicable.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=racism%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried for all I was worth to avoid hanging the racist label on Donald J. Trump. This effort came in the wake of the individual&#8217;s history of hateful rhetoric aimed at African-Americans, Latinos and even Asians. Trump has pushed me over the proverbial cliff with his latest birther non-response to questions that have arisen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, Trump is a racist<\/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":[174,1424,3808],"class_list":["post-44041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-african-americans","tag-donald-trump","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041","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=44041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44042,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions\/44042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}