Sure I dont think he is a racist...just ask the hundreds if not thousands of minorities that have worked for him and spoken highly of him over the years. Look at other black leaders such as Jesse Jackson that have partnered with him on minority causes over the years or those black leaders that now support him today. He has spoken more to minority causes as a GOP President than any other POTUS I can remember. I realize this does not fit your narrative though. A common tactic people use when they cant debate on the issues is to hurl labels such as someone is racist or sexist....and its really just a sign of weakness for the person making the accusation.
Okay so, just so we're clear, you think he has changed but you think so without him ever saying he has, him ever apologizing for past behavior, or him ever displaying specific examples of being a different person?
Do you at least think that he used to be a racist? You think that discriminating against black people is racist right?
So in the 70's, Trump discriminated against black people looking to rent apartments. Then he did it again.
Then in the 90's, he was quoted in a book as saying, “ Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes… Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else…Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that’s guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks.”
Then later in the 90's, he was quoted as saying that the book was, “probably true.”
Then, in 2013, he suggested a judge couldn't do their job because of their Mexican heritage.
Then, in 2015, a former Trump casino worker claimed that black employees were hidden from view when Trump and his wife Ivana were around in the 80's.
Then, in 2017, he was quoted as saying things such as, "They all have AIDS", and that after seeing America, they will never, "go back to their huts" in reference to people from the s#!thole countries of Nigeria and Haiti. To be clear, this isn't the time that he referred to s#!thole countries, that was another separate time later.
Then, Joe Arpaio, who oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling in US history, got a pardon and a compliment of being, "a great American patriot" from Trump, after he had been found guilty of contempt of court and unlawful discriminatory police conduct.
Jim Acosta thinks, "the president seems to harbor racist feelings about people of color from other parts of the world."
David Brooks of PBS said, "It fits into a pattern that we have seen since the beginning of his career, maybe through his father's career, frankly. There's been a consistency, pattern of harsh judgment against black and brown people."
Many New York Times and The New Yorker columnists have expressed that they think he is a racist.
Michael Steele, former chairman of the RNC, said, when asked if he thought Trump was racist, "Yeah, I do. At this point the evidence is incontrovertible."
John Hewson, an Australian political commentator said, "There should be little doubt about US President Donald Trump's views on race, despite his occasional 'denials', assertions of 'fake news', and/or his semantic distinctions. His election campaign theme was effectively a promise to 'Make America Great Again; America First and Only' and – nod, nod, wink, wink – to Make America White Again."
Doug McAdam, a professor of sociology at Stanford, said Trump, "has pushed the GOP toward ever further racist and nativist extremes."
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said "What Trump is doing has popped up periodically, but in modern times, no president has been so racially insensitive and shown outright disdain for people who aren't white."
George Yancy, a professor at Emory University known for his work on racial issues, concluded that Trump is racist, describing his outlook as "a case of unabashed white supremacist ideas."
David Bryden, Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, said that Trump was willing to, "vilif[y] all those of any race whom he regards as obstacles to his ambitions."
So there's LOTS of evidence of racism here. And you don't believe he's a racist because of.... "the hundreds if not thousands of minorities that have worked for him and spoken highly of him over the years."
Could you maybe give sources for just like, six of those THOUSANDS of minorities?
