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mfcorey1

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Wed Nov 2, 2016, 07:02 AM Nov 2016

Trump's call for policing urban polls stirs defiant reaction among black voters

The Rev. Alyn E. Waller was appalled when he learned that Donald Trump was dispatching supporters to Philadelphia to watch for vote fraud on election day.

Most Trump supporters are white. Nearly half of Philadelphia’s population is black. The racial dimension was obvious.

“It is absolutely racist,” said Waller, the pastor of Ebon Tabernacle Baptist Church, Philadelphia’s largest black congregation. “He fundamentally believes that we are less than who he is, and therefore capable of robbing and stealing and being dangerous.”

Trump’s slew of inflammatory remarks have led many Americans to see him as a bigot. Since 1968, when segregationist George Wallace of Alabama won five states in the South, no major presidential contender has used such raw rhetoric on race or ethnicity.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-racial-politics-20161102-story.html

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Trump's call for policing urban polls stirs defiant reaction among black voters (Original Post) mfcorey1 Nov 2016 OP
Nothing like an "alt-nazis for Trump" sign C_U_L8R Nov 2016 #1
I hope this motivates everyone to get out and vote. leftyladyfrommo Nov 2016 #2

C_U_L8R

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1. Nothing like an "alt-nazis for Trump" sign
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 07:30 AM
Nov 2016

...outside every polling place to remind us how important our vote is

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