it has no business serving as president either. republican candidates condemn trump s remarks. we shouldn t try to fool ourselves. his sort of racism has been prevalent for decades. trump is saying out loud whatever republicans merely suggest. political ears must condemn these hateful un-american statements with their words and actions. silence only empowers biggots. some of his republican candidates are saying his latest comments have gone too far but the truth is many of them have also said extreme things about muslims. their language may be more prevailed than trumps but their ideas are all different. they re all driving the exact
here we go. republican candidates condemn trump s remarks and adopt his racist policies as their own. we shouldn t try to fool ourselves. this sort of racism has been prevalent in republican politics for decades. trump s just saying out loud what other republicans merely suggest. political leaders must condemn these hateful unamerican stements with their words and their actions. this only empowers biggots. he said this sort of racism has been prevalent in republican politics for decades. is that fair? we re hearing so much condemnation today from republicans against trump. reporter: we are, frankly. i think harry reid called on republicans to not be silent. in fairness to the vast majority of republicans we ve heard from today who are leaders in the establishment, they ve come out and said, we re going to condemn this, this is not okay.
speaking. we re going through the learning process right here. and that is wherever we are, whether it s in casual conversation or in other activities, anytime there are racists remarks made, we must speak up as americans if we re going to put an end to this kind of nonsense all across the country. by taking a zero tolerance policy here at the university and making it clear we won t tolerate this, these people, as i said this morning, don t deserve to be called sooners. they re misusing our names. sooners are not raysists and biggots. we have so many students, and you saw many of them this morning, some of them were there last night in prayer circle, who condemn this kind of activity.
made mistakes and i ve grown, oh i didn t know where i was. rev, you re exactly right. this shows how disingenuous the republican party is about this issue. the reason boehner doesn t want to go after scalise is because this happens all the time. we had trent lot. we just had rick perry who had a ranch for 30 years and no one saw it. boehner doesn t want to go after him because he realizes you have a lot of other republicans with that ground. until they clean up this issue, until the republican says we are going to purge open racists and biggots, they ll never win a national election. . we re talking about some of the party leadership not all republicans. but if republicans are going to win an election, they re going to have to break out of the boundaries that they re in in terms of the demographics. and how do you reach out without
compared gays to alcoholics. saying victims of aids were like rats. this is a long time coming. right now the pressure groups are not fringe groups. it s today s republican party. the american family association has 2 million members and are on 200 radio stations. this is what party is. it s become that. let me go back to ron on this, you re thinking about this, growing up in a republican family, one thing i liked about your family, although their conservative, your parents didn t have any problem with gay people. this whole thing has gotten to be changing into a witch hunt. right, and this isn t entirely new. since the civil rights era, the republican party has been a haven for biggots. not saying all republicans are,