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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am glad I wasn't the one who noticed the racial demagoguery in Chump's speech from the jump
He started the speech by saying undocumented immigrants are stealing jobs from African Americans and Hispanics. It was a veritable twofer of bigotry, implying undocumented immigrants are stealing entry level jobs and African Americans and Hispanics are only capable of holding them.
And it went down hill from there...
bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)I read yesterday that he was crafting the speech, so of course it would include such crap.
dalton99a
(81,062 posts)on a daily basis
bdamomma
(63,650 posts)anyone focus on Miller that POS, he is the one feeding tRump this crap. Miller hates immigrants, Bannon too. These guys are in the background. I want to see Miller be pulled aside.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Made in China.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)stealing "jobs". His base can't or refuse to dig deeper in that statement.
Here in Los Angeles, early in the morning, you can find young to medium age Latino men hanging out at different locations, i.e. Home Depot, etc. waiting for people to hire them to do odd jobs (under the table payments). Hell, I went to 7 Eleven yesterday early morning, and they were there.
zentrum
(9,865 posts).....to be reaching out to a new constituency, beyond his base.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Russians in this country stealing? Brighton Beach has the Russian Mafia. Seems NY has plenty of Russian lawyers, ready to meet with the tRump administration. Friends of Donald are immune from this immigrant hatred, it seems. He can rest assured no immigrant or citizen will be stealing jobs from his spawn, since none of them work!
Dotard is selectively anti-immigrant.
Botany
(70,281 posts)BTW Doesn't Trump hire undocumented for his golf courses and construction projects.
bdamomma
(63,650 posts)has some illegals working for him at Mar Lago, he's such a hypocrite.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,417 posts)IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)that undocumented immigrants have been doing. The good jobs should be reserved for Trump's supporters. Which are an odd segment since they also oppose education and think we're elitists.
So it sounds like they want to separate the non-college educated jobs so that the good ones are reserved for whites, the shit ones are for black and brown Americans, the scapegoats will be undocumented immigrants, and the wealthy Republican "job creators" will lower their costs for labor.
colorado_ufo
(5,715 posts)I guess they thought they could hit multiple targets with that statement: the Neo cons would think that there would just be more people in lower end jobs flooding the country, and liberals would think that the undeserved of this country were being undercut even further.
And they say you can't please everybody!
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)The problem is for the most part the mainstream media pretends not to notice out of fear of being accused of not being "fair and balanced".
Trump's entire presiduncy has been an appeal to the base emotions of morans. What is painfully obvious to the press in the rest of the world gets a pass here. It's pathetic.
littlemissmartypants
(22,417 posts)FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)... but I'm thinking some of his base fell for his sly dig at African Americans. Out west they want the Mexicans and Central Americans to work in their fields for less than low wages, no benefits, and then go away when the pickin' is done. By insinuating that POC and Hispanic American citizens would even want those jobs is really a racist slander, and he's masquerading as someone who's "looking out for the little guys."
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)simply because our Acting President* IS a racist.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,257 posts)have an incredible number of people who haven't progressed in some ways past their great-grandparents attitudes towards minorities.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)not racist!
He said once that Blacks love him, right? And there are Hispanics who love him... If even one approves, that shows he's not racist!
~ RW logic....
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)There's something I'm missing here ...
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)He's trying to get black and brown folk to be mad at one another and brown folk to be mad at another brown folk. He's a miserable human being.
bdamomma
(63,650 posts)he would shoot a PE or MI.
IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)and that illegals are stealing jobs from Hispanic US citizens because that's exactly where he wants minorities to be working: low wage disposable labor.
elleng
(130,126 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 9, 2019, 03:20 PM - Edit history (1)
The media silence is deafening.
underpants
(182,271 posts)at the very beginning.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Great comment! I caught that just as I was turning the volume down to zero!
underpants
(182,271 posts)but it sounded like a really bad Mexican accent impersonation
brush
(53,467 posts)yet trump and his sycophants never mention the many who cross from there and the jobs they hold.
Guess it's all about having the right complexion for the connection.
Izzy Blue
(282 posts)"The Latest: Trump says immigrants taking minorities jobs
August 31, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
11:25 p.m.
A day before his highly-awaited speech on immigration, Donald Trump is accusing people in the country illegally of taking minority workers jobs.
Trump tells a rally crowd in Washington state that refugees and people living in the U.S. illegally take jobs from hardworking African-Americans and Hispanic citizens.
The GOP nominee also says hes going to stop the flow of drugs across the southern border. He says hell address the issue in Wednesdays speech.
Trump said on Twitter earlier Tuesday that he would meet with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday."
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11:10 p.m.
Donald Trump is railing against the Democratic Party, calling it the party of slavery and Jim Crow.
The GOP presidential nominee says his party is the party of freedom, equality and opportunity.
Trump is continuing his efforts to appeal to minority voters at a Tuesday night rally in Everett, Washington, just north of Seattle, where he has drawn a largely white crowd.
He claims that Democrats have used minority voters for decades and decades and will continue to use them.
He says he will fight for you like no one ever has before.
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more
https://apnews.com/09215cf7f37f4c6ea05f92f8c83e6125