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TexasTowelie

(112,367 posts)
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 03:36 AM Aug 2016

'I Say Hang Them!': Trump Campaign Staffers Post Racist Memes, Call for Violence Against Liberals

Paid campaign staffers for Donald Trump have posted racist memes, anti-Islam comments, and even a call for Secretary of State John Kerry to be hanged. The Associated Press reviewed the social media accounts of about 50 Trump campaign staffers, and gave the campaign a month to respond, which it has not.

"A graphic designer for Trump's advance team approvingly posted video of a black man eating fried chicken and criticizing fellow blacks for ignorance, irresponsibility and having too many children," one example the AP provided reads. "A Trump field organizer in Virginia declared that Muslims were seeking to impose Sharia law in America and that 'those who understand Islam for what it is are gearing up for the fight,'" reads another.

A Florida grassroots organizer for Trump, Annie Marie Delgado of Palm Beach Gardens, according to the AP, "shared a discredited, hoax photo of the State Department's Kerry with Jane Fonda, and commented: 'I say hang them!'" She also wrote in another post, "How about this little white boy being murdered by a black man."

Delgado also lamented what she apparently saw as the end of American culture.

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/trump_campaign_staffers_post_racist_memes_and_even_calls_for_violence_against_top_democrat

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'I Say Hang Them!': Trump Campaign Staffers Post Racist Memes, Call for Violence Against Liberals (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP
If this is the caliber of people Trump surrounds himself with, imagine his cabinet. bluesbassman Aug 2016 #1
Illustrates why I will no longer have bumper stickers get the red out Aug 2016 #2
I certainly agree with that reasoning. TexasTowelie Aug 2016 #3
Wow, univ license plate frames get the red out Aug 2016 #5
I use the magnet types. You can remove or apply when you want. 66 dmhlt Aug 2016 #9
What have you got to lose?? mdbl Aug 2016 #4
November can't get here fast enough lillypaddle Aug 2016 #6
The irony of someone named "Delgado" spewing hate IronLionZion Aug 2016 #7
Sean Hannity jaxind Aug 2016 #8

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
2. Illustrates why I will no longer have bumper stickers
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 05:26 AM
Aug 2016

I may not be brave, but I won't put a political bumper sticker on my car since the Tea Party shit started. It literally took over KY. I am afraid of the violent tendencies these people have. RW radio has spent years teaching people to HATE, not just disagree with liberals, and stoked those racist fires.

I am scared of white violence, and I am a white person, I can't imagine what minorities go through just living their lives every day.

TexasTowelie

(112,367 posts)
3. I certainly agree with that reasoning.
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 05:33 AM
Aug 2016

It ended up getting to the point that I did not put any type of identifying markers on my vehicle. There are too many irrational people to put anything concerning either politics or religion on a vehicle.

Even something seemingly benign as a university license plate frame shouldn't be considered since I learned that the police target those vehicles to be stopped for DUI investigations and drug possession.

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
5. Wow, univ license plate frames
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 06:14 AM
Aug 2016

Thanks for the warning! I was about to get one! Damn, I don't even drink and graduated from college almost 30 years ago! My support for the University of Kentucky will have to be limited to tee shirts.

Crazy shit!

IronLionZion

(45,514 posts)
7. The irony of someone named "Delgado" spewing hate
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 06:40 AM
Aug 2016

Many of the minority or female Trumpers I've encountered have been the worst, most batshit loony people. It's like they need to prove something to someone but spewing hatred against other minorities or women.

jaxind

(1,074 posts)
8. Sean Hannity
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 06:43 AM
Aug 2016

And, Sean Hannity and his ilk were SO worried about President Obama's "association" with Reverend Wright!!

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