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Donald Trumps campaign chair in a prominent Ohio county has claimed there was no racism during the 1960s and said black people who have not succeeded over the past half-century only have themselves to blame.
Kathy Miller, chair of the Republican nominees campaign in Mahoning County, who is white, made the remarks during a taped interview with the Guardians Anywhere but Washington series of election videos.
If youre black and you havent been successful in the last 50 years, its your own fault. Youve had every opportunity, it was given to you, she said.
Youve had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didnt have. You had all the advantages and didnt take advantage of it. Its not our fault, certainly.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/22/trump-ohio-campaign-chair-no-racism-before-obama?CMP=twt_gu
Talk about outreach to black voters!
Deplorable.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Scrubbing voters in predominantly AA neighborhoods off the registers. Or closing more polling places to make voting more difficult. Or , etc etc etc.
Not that she'd admit that such devices would cause "lower turnout".
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)It's not even unbelievable any more. These people crawled of a sewer.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)Only yesterday did I see a Trump supporter question where was Obama on 9-11, Why did Obama let it happen? Now this the creation of racial poverty in America. Wow.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)that was shocking. the more of this shit i see the worse i feel and the more i fear for the future of this country. these people are imbeciles more comfortable with irrational hate than actually entertaining an original thought of their own.
Kansaskid
(17 posts)Absolute stupidity. Must have been home schooled. This should help with anyone who has an understanding of reality.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)to Ms. Miller that she may be uh, misguided in that line of thought.
athena
(4,187 posts)I am appalled. I'm not even sure it's right that this garbage is being reported. I'm afraid that reporting it implicitly condones that sick way of thinking. This person is a sorry excuse for a human being. Yuck.
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)"That dayum troublemaker."
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)classykaren
(769 posts)3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)...a lot of lipstick.
What a horrible person!
Sunny05
(865 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)40% of the US electorate in a nutshell.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)It is harder for minorities to succeed in a lot of ways obviously (for anyone with a working brain).
That is why when they do succeed we actually should give them more credit.
Stuart G
(38,420 posts)stupid is what stupid is.......
colorado_ufo
(5,733 posts)The closer that we get to the election, the more the Trump campaign will abandon dog whistles and be offering directly racist rhetoric. This is a paralleling the rise of the Nazi regime.
OnionPatch
(6,169 posts)I left a long time ago but still return regularly to visit family. I've done a lot of traveling and lived all around the US. But I've never been anywhere where I've heard the n-word used so often. It always shocks me a little to hear the blatantly racist way they talk about blacks in the most casual conversations. (Apparently they think I must be on board with that since I'm white.) The assertion that there is no racism, especially around Mahoning County, is ridiculous.
Johonny
(20,836 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,160 posts)This is the kind of crazy shit that right-wingers on message boards have been saying for a few years now.
Rocknrule
(5,697 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and absolute stupidity corrupts absolutely...
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)What a moron.
lindysalsagal
(20,678 posts)He personally lynched all those blacks all those hundreds of years. Did it himself.
stage left
(2,961 posts)Was she living in an alternate universe or what.
Ellen Forradalom
(16,159 posts)Thanks for clearing that up.
OverBurn
(950 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Calgon - take me away!!!
sueh
(1,826 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)they all had the opportunity to get a high paying job, buy an suv, and evacuate.....
in general, what the rw radio blowhards have been saying for years is essentially that until obama came along, few questioned the racism....
stopbush
(24,396 posts)out of my native state of OH right after college.
At age 62, it's disappointing to be in touch with high school classmates (via FB) who still live in OH and express that same attitude. It is a wide-spread attitude among Rs...believe me.