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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump should realize civil rights museums are centers of resistance to people precisely like him
Last edited Sat Dec 9, 2017, 01:25 PM - Edit history (1)
Joy Reid @JoyAnnReid 2h2 hours ago
On eve of Trump visit, African Americans in Mississippi say hes brought back troubles of the past https://t.co/S2yOJ59YXT
WaPo:
JACKSON, Miss. The president is coming to Americas poorest, blackest state to open a civil rights museum on Saturday, and people in the neighborhoods surrounding that gleaming tribute to the past would rather have Donald Trump visit their present.
Its hostile now, more hostile than in a long, long time, said Pete McElroy, who employs three men at the auto repair shop that has been his familys business for three generations. People almost boast about it: We got our man in the White House, and this is the way the balls going to roll now.
Three miles from the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, over rutted roads, past littered lots, abandoned houses, and shuttered plants and warehouses, McElroy, 69, and other black residents of this struggling capital city say that after nearly a year of the Trump presidency, they have a definitive answer to the question candidate Trump posed when he spoke at a rally in Jackson in August last year.
What do you have to lose? Trump asked, making a quixotic and ultimately failed bid for black votes to a nearly all-white crowd.
Were losing a lot, McElroy said here this week. Losing Obamacare. Where are people going to go? Losing money. Hes making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Mostly, were losing respect. No way you can evade that. The way he speaks, the racists feel like they can say anything they want to us.
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Trump should realize civil rights museums are centers of resistance to people precisely like him (Original Post)
bigtree
Dec 2017
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)1. The Nazi-in-Chief should realize he's an asshole, traitor, and resign...
so, no surprise there.
spanone
(135,846 posts)2. they shouldn't allow him in.
bigtree
(85,999 posts)4. I hope they keep a constant microphone on him
dlk
(11,570 posts)3. Trump Never Misses an Opportunity to be the Center of Attention-Nothing Else Matters
JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)5. Truly too ignorant to understand the history.....