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Los Angeles Times:
Of course.
As the old joke goes, what do you call the one black man at a conservative conference: “Keynote Speaker.”
Kirchick doesn’t.)
But not in Kirchick’s Alternative Universe where “Donnell Trump” is a black billionaire hotel magnate running for the GOP nomination on “nationalist, politically incorrect, anti-immigrant populism.” In Kirchick World:
My point is that the very voters and media personalities who would almost certainly condemn Donell have embraced Donald, which indicates the degree to which a racial double standard exists at the core of the Republican Party and conservative media world.
The more interesting question is whether the mainstream media world would have gone quite so nuclear against a Black Trump.
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