US President insists he is "not a racist"
The president on Sunday amid reports that he referred to some foreign countries - namely, Haiti, El Salvador and countries in Africa - as a "shithole" denied such remarks and said charges of racism against him were unfair.
In Friday's newsletter, I included a handful of his racist comments and asked readers which I had missed.
But thanks to media coverage of President Trump's alleged use of the word, they will from now on be aware that being called a "shithole" place to live is a racist insult, which will be a little confusing to the overwhelmingly white population. "That I can tell you", Trump told reporters in Florida when entering Trump International Golf Course for a dinner with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. It was not until the next morning that Trump gave a halfhearted walkback but still did not deny making the comment.
Trump himself marked the day with a videotaped speech posted on Twitter that alluded to King's celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech. "That's the American Dream".
Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and is assistant director of the Plan II Honors Program. He's had almost forty years to prove it, mountains of court documents and media evidence to prove it, and yet even in the midst of this horror show of a presidency, Americans are still taking the time to debate not only whether Trump is racist, but whether racism exists at all.
Durbin has said the White House should release whatever recording it might have of the meeting.
"When I appoint a nigger to the bench, I want everybody to know he's a nigger", Johnson infamously said about nominating Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump was always a racist. It's about validating and encouraging racism and xenophobia that will potentially disrupt and even destroy the lives of many people. The president also questioned the need to admit more Haitians to the USA, according to people who were briefed on the conversation but were not authorized to describe the meeting publicly.
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African ambassadors to United Nations call Trump's remark "outrageous, racist"
In the past few weeks, President Trump has accused all Haitians of having AIDS and stated that all Nigerians live in huts. Trump reportedly made the remarks at a private meeting with lawmakers on immigration on Thursday. "That I can tell you".
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"I think somebody on his staff gave him really bad advice between 10 o'clock and 12 o'clock on Thursday. You have to use your own mind, your own judgment as far as how you feel that he is", said Michelle Toyer, who was marching in Washington.
Similar sentiments were expressed at marches in NY and Los Angeles while a small group of demonstrators waving Haitian flags faced off with Trump supporters in West Palm Beach. "It's the Democrats who don't want to make a deal". They don't care that it makes them look foolish to those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Mr Peters says the meeting, which will involve 21 nations, will involve discussions that will seek to find diplomatic solutions.
A bipartisan deal to resolve the Dreamers issue in return for changes demanded by Republicans in the way visas are allocated collapsed in acrimony Thursday over Trump's remarks.
However, according to worldwide reports, Dick Durbin, a Democratic senator who attended the meeting, disputed Mr Trump's statement.
Sen. Dick Durbin of IL, the only Democrat at Thursday's meeting, said Trump had indeed said what he was reported to have said. In fact, immigrants are self-selecting go-getters regardless of their education level, willing to pack up and go to a odd country to attain a better life.
Trump has previously tried to pass a ban on travel to the USA from various Muslim-majority countries, which a judge said was a continuation of his "promise to exclude Muslims from the United States". Deals can't get made when there is no trust!
He was referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, which protects young people who came to the United States as children and are living here illegally.
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