Donald Trump Opens His 'Sh*thole- and Again Disgraces America - by Michael Tomasky

[DonViejo]

A president of the United States should not be talking that way about countries, no matter what the country is. Americans know this. Will Congress listen to us?

MICHAEL TOMASKY
01.11.18 10:43 PM ET

Come on, America. What more evidence do you need?

Let me be overly generous here. Suppose you agree that Haiti is a “shithole.” It’s not one of your high-functioning nations, that is true. Of course, if you bother even to go to Wikipedia to read up for 10 minutes, you’ll find that the mess that is Haiti was partly made by these United States of America, with our ironclad support over three decades of the Duvaliers, father and son, brutal dictators and murderers and thieves, to whose crimes our governments turned many blind eyes. If you look around a bit more, you’ll see that Haitian soldiers fought in our Revolutionary War, in a battle in Savannah, Georgia. And if you’re really intellectually adventurous, you’ll read about how Haiti was a slave colony in the late 1700s, remorselessly brutalized by Napoleon, and how Toussaint L’Ouverture, the leader of Haitian independence, has inspired artists from William Wordsworth to Jacob Lawrence to Ralph Ellison to Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Jean-Michel, a great American artist of the 1980s, was born to a Haitian father. A powerful artist—but, to the president of the United States, just another shithole kid.

But what I’m saying is this: Even if you agree with Donald Trump’s assessment of Haiti, I hope you surely agree that a president of the United States should not be talking that way about countries, no matter what the country is. Because in every country, even in Somalia, by every measure the world’s most dysfunctional country, there are innocent, decent people who have none of the dysfunction on their hands; who are indeed history’s most unfortunate victims, people who are just trying to work and raise their kids and who happened to draw the short straw in the global lottery and be born in this place, and who want out.

And for many decades, many of the people across the globe who wanted out wanted to come here, to America, to make a better life. Now I ask you: Who wants to come to Donald Trump’s America? Who?

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[heaven05]

1. this imitation

Of a potus and human being (barely) is a pitiful disgrace representing America. And it is malevolent, hateful people here and abroad that caused this travesty. We truly are in a war for our containing experiment in creating an all inclusive equal society in which those who want to dream and strive for greatness, can.