Trump Makes UNFORGIVABLE Statement About African-Americans That Has Left Everyone STUNNED (VIDEO)

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Oh boy.

According to Donald Trump, African-Americans have never suffered as much as they are right now. Slavery? Eh, that was nothing compared to life now.

Speaking at a rally in Kenansville, North Carolina, Trump again stumbled in an apparent attempt to endear himself to black voters.

“We’re going to make our country safe again. We’re going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before,” he said. “Ever, ever, ever.”

The comment is untrue, and completely ignores that black people were once subjected to slavery and Jim Crow laws.

Twitter users instantly pointed out the obvious:

read more: http://realtimepolitics.com/2016/09/21/trump-makes-unforgivable-statement-about-african-americans-that-has-left-everyone-stunned-video/

[saltpoint]

1. Donald Trump is such

a revolting individual.

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2. Lawrence and panel on MSNBC slamming Trump right now on this comment

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3. Good to hear it. May their comments

inspire other media types to wake up and do their jobs.

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4. a surrogate on CNN was defending Trump's comment

Anderson Cooper asked him if Trump had ever heard of slavery and Jim Crow. To which another Trump surrogate jumped in and told Cooper to look at all the murders in Chicago.



edit: the second Trump surrogate was Jeffrey Lord

[saltpoint]

5. My god. The Trump campaign surrogates

are an unholy pack of fools and monsters. Some of them aren't terribly bright to begin with. The few who are have to dumb down and go into zombie surrogate mode in order to defend Trump's absurd comments and statements.

And behavior.

If I behaved in high school the way Trump is behaving as an aspirant to lead the free world, my mother would have kicked my ass.

And properly so.

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9. "unholy pack of fools and monsters"

as Hillary correctly put it, DEPLORABLE!

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13. Yep. She got it right, and even

the media know it.

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19. the media know it but they haven't admitted it to the people they are supposed to inform

Except for the NYT, the media have failed to expose Trump and his base for who they really are:

[0rganism]

6. history? who needs it?

i can't wait for December when the defeated apricot hellbeast disappears from the news channels for a while.

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8. +1

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16. actually you may be seeing MORE of him ... as in this is TNN, Trump News Network

There is no doubt that there is a broader plan at play to extend the Trump brand and a conversation that they’re initiating right now beyond the November election,” former Breitbart spokesman Kurt Bardella said on CNN’s Reliable Sources show on Sunday.

The New York Times also said recently that it has heard about talks between Trump and Kushner about either starting or acquiring a media outlet and turning it into a Trump-based media entity.

read more: http://fortune.com/2016/08/22/trump-media-company/

[0rganism]

30. i'm hopeful that i can avoid ... TNN ... as i already avoid Faux

i remain cautiously optimistic the other news channels won't see much benefit in promoting a competitor.

[gratuitous]

7. Maybe Trump knows his Bible after all

Isaiah 3:14.

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31. I never doubted it

[JI7]

10. There actually are people who think Black people had it pretty well during slavery and segregation

i don't think this was completely a mistake on his part.

[bluesbassman]

11. No, it most certainly was not a "mistake".

Trump talks out his ass, but it's a direct feed from his brain. He says outrageous things like this with one purpose in mind and that is publicity and cornering the news cycle. He has been getting slammed on the charity issue, so he says this to draw attention away from the very real issue of illegal use of his foundation's funds and get that attention onto something he can wave off by saying he was misinterpreted.

The really disgusting part is that his racist followers eat this stuff up and actually believe what he says. For the rest of us that are shocked and appalled he'll just claim we're too PC and overreacting. It's what he does.

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26. "the very real issue of illegal use of his foundation's funds"

On Lawrence's show last night, one of the commentators said had Hillary improperly used foundation funds to pay legal settlements the media would be in a meltdown right now, as in freaking out.

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15. FOX News hero Cliven Bundy made that argument ...

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12. It's all open racism now

no more dog whistles. Remember slavery and Jim Crow were good for white people.

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14. Actually No, white people hated slavery for economic reasons, how can you get a job if slavery

Poor whites hated slavery they could not get jobs, slave owners would rent out their slaves.
Also if a poor white started a business, the slave owners would compete with real slave wages.

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18. I think you need to insert an also

They hated slavery for moral reasons and also because....

Or for any deplorables reading this you could use "also too"

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23. Should have written

rich white people

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22. It's all out in the open. From a recent Trump rally ...

[trotsky]

17. Doesn't matter that it's not true.

It's what his true believers want to be true. Again this isn't an actual appeal to black voters, it's a ploy for racist white voters to convince themselves they're not racist by voting for Drumpf.

[cwydro]

20. Exactly.

This man can say nothing that will deter his voters.

It's beyond frightening.

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32. he can say or DO anything

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25. He thinks he can win moderate white suburban voters by pretending to make an appeal to "the blacks"

Someone got to him because now he says "the African-American community."

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21. When you are already polling lower than the margin of error

With a group, might as well not bother trying to dig yourself out of the hole.

[Ace Rothstein]

24. "The unemployment rate among blacks was 0% during slavery."

~Trump, probably

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28. sounds about right for Trump

[Cracklin Charlie]

27. King Con would take good care of his slaves.

Believe him.

And they wouldn't hafta all be black, either, dontcha know? King Con would have all the colors of slaves, cause that's how much he loves diversity. And they would be the best slaves! And he will get the AFL-CIO to pay for them!

What do you have to lose?

[whatthehey]

29. Be prepared to rebut the inevitable "clarification"

Ewven if we have a fit of overwhelming charity and pretend he meant in recent, legally equal, times

Blacks in poverty under Reagan in 1982 - 47.6% Now 32.9% (down since Obama took office too)

Black uninsured rate halved to 11.4%

Black male incarceration rate from 3537 to 2724 per 100k since 2000. Female even more dramatic nearly 50% down from 205 to 109

Room to improve for sure, but the improvement is already underway.

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34. his campaign hasn't provided a clarification because there is no need to ...

The MSM aren't covering the story.

Nothing.

He has said so many despicable things they aren't even bothering anymore.

They are letting slide practically every outrageous thing he says now.

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35. The Clarification, followed by the Double Down

It's like the new sandwich combo at Wendy's.

He'll pretend to walk it back, and then--WHAM! He'll double it down, and get four times as much coverage.

[Stuart G]

33. Don the Con doesn't know shit about shit..Shit knows more than Don the Con....

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36. I thought he was "really smart"

Did he ever study history?

[annabanana]

37. His Stupid is deep and wide. . . . n/t

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39. :)

[Wounded Bear]

38. Again? nt

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40. He's shared before his perception that African-Americans are all living in poverty and in fear

of being shot.

I think this is the FIRST time he's ever said African-Americans are worse off today than ever in the HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY.

(I suppose Trump, in his sick mind, thinks slavery was a good thing because it meant full employment, as another member said.)

[Wounded Bear]

41. Was talking more about the "unforgiveable" part...

How many of those has he made?