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FrisbeeDude 11/10/18 2:32:19 PM #1: |
https://tinyurl.com/yc7wcqhh
Wednesday, when PBSs Yamiche Alcindor asked President Trump if his campaign rhetoric was emboldening white nationalists, the president (who has, in recent weeks, railed against power-hungry globalists, a distant immigrant Caravan, and called African American Tallahassee mayor and Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum a stone-cold thief) tried to turn the tables by saying: Thats such a racist question. Friday, when CNNs Abby Phillip asked Trump if he wanted newly-designated acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker to rein in Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Trump tried to dismiss her by saying: What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot, you ask a lot of stupid questions. Wednesday at the White House, he told me to sit down. In Fridays press gaggle, he called me nasty and a loser, never mind my 21 years, covering four presidents as a reporter for American Urban Radio Networks. Its not hard to find the common denominator: Though theres hardly anyone from his predecessors to senators in his own party he wont try to shout down with ad hominem insults, Trump relishes, and injects venom into, verbal attacks against women of color. He leaves little doubt about what he really thinks of us. In rally after rally, when Trump says Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has a low I.Q. hes showing contempt for the idea that a black woman, who has sworn an oath to uphold the same Constitution as he, should be able to speak her mind if she in any way challenges his authority. When he feuded with Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) over his response to the death of her constituent, LaDavid Johnson, an African American Army sergeant killed in action, he failed to live up to his role as commander in chief. When he says Stacey Abrams, a Yale Law School graduate and former Democratic leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, is not qualified to be her states governor, hes applying a double standard. When he feuded, via Twitter, with Jemele Hill, the National Association of Black Journalists 2018 journalist of the year (an award I was honored with in 2017) Trump telegraphed that theres something about being questioned by a black woman that he cant abide. One or two of these instances might only leave you scratching your head. But weve reached the point where its an unmistakable pattern. It really is that obvious --- If you're not voting like a black woman, your opinion doesn't matter to me ... Copied to Clipboard!
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