President Barack Obama bending over so a boy visiting the Oval Office could feel that the President's hair was like his.
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President Barack Obama bending over so a boy visiting the Oval Office could feel that the President's hair was like his.
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At one of his rallies, Trump condescendingly pointed to a black man in the crowd, saying, "Oh, look at my African-American over here -- look at him."
And Trump denounced Gonzalo Curiel, a well-respected federal judge of Mexican heritage who is presiding over a lawsuit in San Diego filed by people claiming they were scammed by Trump University. After Curiel unsealed documents, Trump declared that Curiel had "an absolute conflict" that should disqualify him from the case. Trump's reason: "He is a Mexican," adding, "I'm building a wall. It's an inherent conflict of interest."
Trump's overriding theme, "Make America Great Again," is a euphemism for "Make America White Again." Indeed, Trump was a founder of the birther movement, whose aim was to discredit Barack Obama by claiming he was born in Kenya, thus stoking racist attacks throughout his presidency. That movement evolved into the Trump for president campaign, which is steeped in racial hatred.
As Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Trump pits blacks against whites, reminiscent of what occurred during the era of Jim Crow. She quoted Dr. Martin Luther King's remarks about how poor white workers in the South were told, "No matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man," noting, "Racial hatred was part of keeping the powerful on top."
Trump is sexist as well as racist. His comments about women reveal his misogyny. He has referred to women as "dog," "fat pig," "slob," "degenerate" and "disgusting animal." And Trump disgustingly said of Megan Kelly, "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."
The GOP nominee has no more respect for the disabled than he does for women, workers and people of color, publicly mocking a reporter with a disability.
And although he declared in his acceptance speech that he would "protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology," Trump said nothing about protecting them from the hateful ideology within the United States.
The next president may fill three or four seats on the Supreme Court. Trump has vowed to nominate justices like Antonin Scalia, who said during oral argument in the affirmative action case, Fisher v. University of Texas, that he was not "impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer" black students.
Scalia added, "Maybe it ought to have fewer. I don't think it stands to reason that it's a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many blacks as possible."
Scalia opposed reproductive rights, universal health care, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, voting rights, immigrants' rights, labor rights, LGBT rights and environmental protection. Trump, who has said he will pick his judicial nominations from lists drawn up by the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, could move the high court radically to the right for decades to come.
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