Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:03 pm
As he tried to save his campaign, Donald Trump smeared African-Americans with a new racist attack.
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Trump said, “We’re going to take care of our inner cities which are absolutely a shame and so sad. We’re going to take care of our African-American people which have been mistreated for so long.”
Donald Trump was reading from a teleprompter, and he still couldn’t resist slipping in a bit of racism towards African-Americans. Republicans told themselves that the problem with Trump was that he was unscripted, so they scripted him, and their nominee was still a racist.
Trump’s line about African-Americans echoed his behavior recently on the campaign trail when he blurted out in the middle of a rally, “Look at my African-American.”
What Trump doesn’t understand is that African-Americans aren’t property. The United States doesn’t own African-Americans. African-Americans are not “ours,” and somebody may want to let the racist presumptive nominee that all African-Americans don’t live in inner cities.
A speech that was supposed to reboot Trump’s campaign after a week of racism has nearly destroyed it confirmed that the Republican Party has nominated a racist who can’t stop dividing the country.
Donald Trump can’t stop being racist because he is a racist. It doesn’t matter if Trump has a teleprompter or not, he continues to alienate voters with racist language.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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