there s been this agonized national debate, is donald trump a racist? does he realize that the thing he just said is exciting racists and white nationalists? does the thing he said this time finally prove he s a racist? but you know who has not been having this big debate? donald trump. after decades of clear evidence of racism, trump clearly knows exactly what he s saying and to whom, and as president he has consistently backed up his racist talk with policy. he s putting real racist policy on the table designed to excite racially anxious white americans and to terrify people who aren t white. so, yes, donald trump is really racist, fini. this weekend trump added to the ledger targeting four black and brown democratic congresswomen, representatives alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, ayanna presley and rashida tlaib, to punish them for criticizing his hideous immigration policies, including
racist talk with policy. he s putting real racist policy on the table designed to excite racially anxious white americans and to terrify people who aren t white. so, yes, donald trump is really racist, fini. this weekend trump added to the ledger targeting four black and brown democratic congresswomen, representatives alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, ayanna presley and rashida tlaib, to punish them for criticizing his hideous immigration policies, including locking central american men, women and children in crowded cages where they are told to drink water from the toilet. trump pulled the ultimate barbecue becky telling them they don t belong here. trump in a tweet storm told these four american congresswomen to go back to the countries from where they came from. all are born in america. one in the bronx, michigan, chicago, and one naturalized from somalia as a teenager. trump was asked if it bothered
that s deeply damaging. most of all, to the children, by a person of great authority. what s at stake now, the president is trying to redefine america as not a place not a place that s an idea, but a place for a certain group of people. i have to get everyone in. we have a lot of ground to cover. what did you think, mayor? unfortunately, not surprised by the president. he has decided the way he s going to go about this re-election campaign, is to run white. if you aren t white, you re less american, you hate your country. if you re a democrat and not a republican, you re against the american way. this is trump being trump.
or not the words you used, whether people approve of or empathize with, i think everybody can agree we don t want young people committing suicide because of questions or sexual identity. how do we address that particular problem? i appreciate that. i care greatly about our babies. i taught kindergarten and third grade students. i m a researcher studying how schools are sources of trauma for students who aren t white, able bodied and the like. the thing we have to be mindful of, we ve seen increases in the rates of suicide amongst children of color as well as lgbtq youth. the thing that most concerned adults and front line responders, educators in particular, need to be mindful of, that young people today are experiencing trauma, sometimes on the way to and from school that would break the average adult. we need to be mindful of the risk factors and watch young people so we can intercede before there s often a moment of
seeing mob violence actually orchestrated by the far right by neo nazis and would you say that this ideology is taking on mass appeal in large swathes of eastern germany or does that go too far. well i think those are really two very different question i don t think that they re orchestrated by the f.d.a. . i think they re they re more spontaneous eruption the definitely the protests are organized but what we ve seen that you know people who aren t white are being chased through the streets the video that we thought of that. i don t think that that s that s just an eruption of violence i would say. and i think that the f.d.a. plays a role in that as you said linda they re making it more possible for people to say these things without actually having to fear anything from society they can just go