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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid you notice that in his speech yesterday Trump referred to the Haitians in Springfield as 20,000 illegal immigrants?
Illegal? Wtf?
LetMyPeopleVote
(156,706 posts)Solomon
(12,498 posts)Calling them illegal and talk about "military invasion by a foreign element" is almost worse than the crap about eating pets. Some people are going to get seriously hurt if not killed behind this kind of talk.
hotellanai1986
(157 posts)This is an insidious attack on Black people. My family has been in America for 7+ generations but Haitian immigrants look like me, my family, my friends, my church family, my sorority (yes, Kamala is my sorority sister along with 100K others). Trump is reverting to his base instinct passed down from his father, racism.
I think back to when he was first running for office and the news media "question of the day" was "Is Trump A Racist?" There were many guffaws and the usual "Of course he isn't. THOSE PEOPLE are just being too sensitive to his joking." My, how many were "so innocent" then. People in my sphere realized this man was a longterm racist and got it (the sentiment) honestly - from his father (the Klansman).
So, don't be fooled this time. This is attack on Haitian immigrants is a "twofer." An insidious and very dangerous slur on immigrants and Black people. Interestingly, Haitian immigrants have been in this country for a few generations and there has been no ugly rumor about cat, dogs, etc. That slur was lobbed against other groups - not Black people. I suspect this slur came out of the Vance camp (with his terribly racist minions) - don't protest, my cousins know people associated with him from the Yalie days.
Sorry, end of rant.
yardwork
(65,034 posts)Trump's racism is his biggest appeal. When we peel back the layers of many voters' "concerns" it always, always comes down to racism. "Those people" are ruining blah blah blah. Liberals are weak and allowing "those people" to blah blah blah.
The bigotry is the message.
Solomon
(12,498 posts)enough) but because they are black and brown.
Mad_Machine76
(24,800 posts)if he loses in Ohio
DFW
(57,007 posts)Even some Republican clown used it in a comment on my latest youtube video, even though the city of Springfield, Ohio has said the number of Haitian immigrants was between 12,000 and 15,000, and never referred to them as “illegal.”
But it is again true that a lie makes its way around the world before the truth has gotten out of bed in the morning.