Why does he refuse to condemn them?

[Dill]

(10-07-2020, 12:19 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Dill Wrote: [url=http://thebengalsboard.com/Thread-Why-does-he-refuse-to-condemn-them?pid=921945#pid921945][/url]By "people in Minnesota," did he mean anyone who happened to be living in the state at the moment--including thousands of out of state college students, foreign residents, refugees?  Or do you think he meant all citizens of the state, including naturalized Somalis, but not all those others?

Yes

Perhaps you cannot, but if you can, then now's the time to explain 

1. all the vitriol directed at the Somalis and other Africans, the promises to keep more from coming, if they are included as "people of Minnesota."

2. And all the fawning over the pioneers who settled and farmed there, presented as the source of those wonderful genes. The ancestors of current white Minnesotans.

Donald Trump: 01:55:16
From St. Paul to St. Cloud, from Rochester to Duluth, and from Minneapolis, thank God we still have Minneapolis, to right here, right here with all of you great people, this state was pioneered by men and women who braved the wilderness and the winters to build a better life for themselves and for their families. They were tough and they were strong. You have good genes. You know that, right? You have good genes. A lot of it’s about the genes, isn’t it? Don’t you believe? The racehorse theory you think was so different? You have good genes in Minnesota. They didn’t have a lot of money. They didn’t have a lot of luxury, but they had grit, they had faith, and they had each other. That’s what you have now. You have each other.

Donald Trump:01:56:11
They were miners and lumberjacks, fishermen and farmers, shipbuilders and shopkeepers. But they all had one thing in common. They loved their families, they loved their countries, and they loved their God. Proud citizens like you helped build this country. And together we are taking back our country. 

In imagining the past of "Minnesotans," it would have been easy to include ancestors of the first waves of black immigration north--"migrant laborers, proud citizens who worked in the factories etc."--but they weren't the "farmers and fishermen."  Not the Minnesotans Donald was imagining.