08-15-2018, 02:40 PM
(08-15-2018, 01:42 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: The fact that people have to go back 30 to 45 years to find 2 pretty weak examples speaks volumes to me. When someone is in the public eye for that long, you can pretty much craft any narrative you want and find some weak evidence to support it...but if Trump were the flaming nazi racist the left makes him out to be, the examples should be clearer, stronger and more numerous.
I never saw anyone accuse Trump of racism for his opinion on the jogger case until 2016, when CNN grilled him over it. I also doubt the headlines were "Donald Trump is a Racist" back in 1973. His father was still running the show back then, and no admission of guilt was made. Saying that these were clear accusations of racism (at the time) is a stretch. Sure, they're used NOW as evidence.
Dino already responded to this pretty well, but I will just add that Trump's birtherism resulted in him being accused of racism quite a bit during the Obama years. We don't need to go far back at all, I just went to early examples to show just how long people have been calling him a racist.
Look, you want to believe he isn't racist, that's fine. There is a ton of evidence out there that point to it. Some has been brought up showing that you were incorrect to say it didn't happen prior to 2016. I'm moving on.
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