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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Sat Jan 2, 2016, 10:43 AM Jan 2016

“Trump isn’t a Republican issue or a rich people issue or a human issue. He is a white people issue"

“Donald Trump isn’t a Republican issue or a rich people issue or a human issue. Donald Trump is a white people issue. Whenever Ben Carson says batshit crazy nonsense, Black people rise up, and let him know that he needs to STFU. Whenever Raven-Symone pops off, we put her cap back on. We even handled Rachel Dolezal for you. Yes, we also make jokes and come up with clever memes and hashtags, but at the core of all that is that we are letting these people know that they are embarrassing us as Black people. It is time, white people, for you to finally step up and recognize that you also (even more so) have a responsibility to your race. It is up to you to silence Donald Trump. Don’t just insult him and make fun of him. You have to connect it to your race. Recognize that he is embarrassing you as a white person. Simple snark won’t win here. You have to feel it. You have to use words like “as a white person” and “he is an embarrassment to my race.” Stop acting like Trump isn’t the pinnacle and the result of America’s history and tradition of white supremacy. And again, P.S.: Simply put, white people, come get your boy.”

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/15/whites_against_trump_kamau_bell_tells_white_people_yes_even_you_good_liberals_to_come_get_your_boy/
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“Trump isn’t a Republican issue or a rich people issue or a human issue. He is a white people issue" (Original Post) kpete Jan 2016 OP
There's a lot not to like about saltpoint Jan 2016 #1
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Nah a lot of white people are way too busy asking all Muslim Americans to control ISIS Person 2713 Jan 2016 #3
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Question...can a racist be defined as someone who CONSTANTLY dwells on the race issue? nt clarice Jan 2016 #5

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
1. There's a lot not to like about
Sat Jan 2, 2016, 11:04 AM
Jan 2016

Donald Trump.

If each of us made a grocery list of the things we don't like about Trump, a good many of the things on all those lists would be the same.

IMO our lists would tell the more accurate tale than the media have told over the last several months.

I think we get Trump in a way most of his supporters will never get him.

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