Racism has become the official Republican doctrine in the Era of Trump.

Blame the victims is the theme of the day for Republicans, and racists no longer fear having their names attached to that awful charge. And if this is the kind of thing Republicans feel free to say in a public interview, just think what they are saying -- and plotting -- behind closed doors. Even when caught red faced and wet handed spewing their horrible views, the best they can do is backpedal while mouthing weaselly words of apology for the way they said it or the way it was taken, but never the error of their racist beliefs. Actually, these people are the genuine article, they are the accurate representative of the Republican Party's point of view, which is epitomizes Trump's long held racist rhetoric.


Yesterday, a Trump county campaign chair in Ohio blamed racism on Obama. Kathy Miller, a Trump campaign volunteer who would serve as an elector if Trump wins, called the Black Lives Matter movement ‘a stupid waste of time’, and said African American voter turnout could be due to ‘the way they’re raised’.

She also said, “If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault. You’ve had every opportunity, it was given to you,” she said. “You’ve had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn’t have. You had all the advantages and didn’t take advantage of it. It’s not our fault, certainly.”

Mark Munroe, the GOP chair, said he immediately contacted the Trump campaign in Ohio asking for Miller to be dismissed over her “insane comments”. Miller's subsequent resignation came just hours after the release of the video revealing her racist opinions.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-ohio-campaign-chair-no-racism-before-obama|



At the same time that Miller was sharing her racist sentiments, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) revealed his inner racist during an interview when he was asked about what was going through the minds of the people who were protesting against the police killings this week.

"The grievance in their mind is the animus, the anger," he said. "They hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not. I mean, yes, it is, it is a welfare state. We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, and we’ve put people in bondage so they can’t be all that they are capable of being."

Within hours, the Republican congressman who represents the Charlotte area, was trying to to walk it back and blame the victims by tweeting, "I was quoting statements made by angry protesters last night". He tossed out the boilerplate apologies to those who might have been "offended", but not for harboring his racist views.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/keith-scott-charlotte-protests-congressman-robert-pittenger-hate-white-people-bbc-newsnight-a7326166.html