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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
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)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)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)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!
66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)Vote for Trump and his racists supporters. It can't be worse, can it?
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)all hell is going to break loose.
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)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)And, Sean Hannity and his ilk were SO worried about President Obama's "association" with Reverend Wright!!