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WASHINGTON After a summer when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets protesting racial injustice against Black Americans, President Trump has made it clear over the last few days that, in his view, the countrys real race problem is bias against white Americans.
Just days after returning from Kenosha, Wis., where he staunchly backed law enforcement and did not mention the name of Jacob Blake, the Black man shot seven times in the back by the police, Mr. Trump issued an order on Friday to purge the federal government of racial sensitivity training that his White House called divisive, anti-American propaganda.
The president then spent much of the weekend tweeting about his action, presenting himself as a warrior against identity politics. This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue, he wrote of such programs. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish! He reposted a tweet from a conservative outlet hailing his order: Sorry liberals! How to be Anti-White 101 is permanently cancelled!
Not in generations has a sitting president so overtly declared himself the candidate of white America. While Mr. Trumps campaign sought to temper the culture war messaging at the Republican National Convention last month by showcasing Black and Hispanic supporters who denied that he is a racist, the president himself has increasingly made appeals to the grievances of white supporters a centerpiece of his campaign to win a second term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/trump-race-2020-election.html
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Walleye
(31,022 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Fixed it..
"Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of THE RACIST PART of White America"
Trump doesn't speak for me.
He insults my white race.
I refuse to be broadbrushed into Trump's racist hate group.
I fking despise them.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)ultra-nationalism, misogyny, and selective populism.
DenverJared
(457 posts)how they treated the POC and they are terrified. This is why they latch on to Trump regardless of his flaws.
A Lincoln Project ad needs to address this saying "Whites will still be the largest ethnic group no matter who wins and that justice will treat them just as fairly as anyone else."
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Fear is the measure of a guilty conscience.
demosincebirth
(12,537 posts)Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)Fuck off, Donald.
America needs defending against YOU.