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OK, "MS NOW," I'm taking a victory lap over your posting opinions I posted 5 minutes after Trump's "ape" post.
FIRST, everything in this piece by Charles F. Coleman Jr. is 100% TRUE.SECOND, if you are at all familiar with what I post, I have shared the assertions here dozens of times on DU.
I'm not saying I'm brilliant. I'm saying I know the truth when I see it and I've shared it many, many times here, BEFORE the "MS NOW" op/ed.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trumps-obsession-with-the-obamas-prompts-another-sickening-racist-eruption
This is exactly who Trump was before he descended the escalator in 2015 to announce he was running for president. (In that announcement speech, he defamed Mexican immigrants to this country as drug dealers and rapists.) He, his father and Trump Management were sued by Richard Nixon’s DOJ in 1973 for housing discrimination and eventually settled.
In the 1980s, he infamously placed full-page ads in New York City’s major newspapers calling for the death penalty for the Central Park Five (now known as the Exonerated Five), the group of Black and Hispanic teens accused of raping a white woman. And as the social media post likening the Obamas to apes reminds us, Trump has a creepy obsession with the former president and his family. Before he told the big lie that he won in 2020, he told the big lie that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. All of this is to say that Trump’s outbursts of racism are not new.
It’s because he’s been like this for so long that we need to bear down not just on him in this moment but any members of his administration or elected officials in his party who insist on providing cover for his racism. In his post that correctly called Trump’s social media post “the most racist thing,” Scott said, “The president should remove it.” But Trump removing it cannot be the end of the story. While other Republicans denounced what Trump posted, they must insist that he, at a minimum, publicly apologize, even though he insists he won’t. Otherwise, their denunciations are plain unserious.
This is exactly who Trump was before he descended the escalator in 2015 to announce he was running for president. (In that announcement speech, he defamed Mexican immigrants to this country as drug dealers and rapists.) He, his father and Trump Management were sued by Richard Nixon’s DOJ in 1973 for housing discrimination and eventually settled.
In the 1980s, he infamously placed full-page ads in New York City’s major newspapers calling for the death penalty for the Central Park Five (now known as the Exonerated Five), the group of Black and Hispanic teens accused of raping a white woman. And as the social media post likening the Obamas to apes reminds us, Trump has a creepy obsession with the former president and his family. Before he told the big lie that he won in 2020, he told the big lie that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. All of this is to say that Trump’s outbursts of racism are not new.
It’s because he’s been like this for so long that we need to bear down not just on him in this moment but any members of his administration or elected officials in his party who insist on providing cover for his racism. In his post that correctly called Trump’s social media post “the most racist thing,” Scott said, “The president should remove it.” But Trump removing it cannot be the end of the story. While other Republicans denounced what Trump posted, they must insist that he, at a minimum, publicly apologize, even though he insists he won’t. Otherwise, their denunciations are plain unserious.
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