...it backfired spectacularly...
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No...really??? Again...what a, uh, surprise that is...
Imagine...*the idea!*...*Donald Trump* trying to hide
that he's racist! LOLOLOL!!! Just like so many other
racist White folk, he literally *has no clue* how utterly
transparent those wordings are, that he uses, that they
imagine disguise their disrespect and dismissal...
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Former President Donald Trump meant something very
specific — and dark — when he praised Rep. Byron Donalds
(R-FL), a prominent Black Republican, at a recent
Pennsylvania rally by saying, “That one is smart. You
have smart ones and then you have some that aren’t quite
so good,” wrote Chauncey DeVega for an analysis in Salon
published Friday.
This sort of language is "quite familiar" to Black
Americans, wrote DeVega about the speech, which Trump
gave on Saturday. "It is a version of such white racist
language and logic as 'you are not like the other ones'
or 'you are so articulate.'
"The underlying assumption is that Black people as a
group are stupid, dumb, unintelligent, inherently
childlike and primitive, possess 'bad culture' and in
other ways are inferior to white people."
When Trump says things like this, it's intended to shield
him from allegations of racism, wrote DeVega, but outside
of his circle of existing supporters, it actually does
the opposite. "It is a version of the 'my best Black (or
brown) friend' defense that many white people use when
confronted by their racist behavior. In reality, such
praise, especially from someone like Trump who is
generally of poor character and has repeatedly shown
himself to be a racist and a white supremacist, is an
insult and act of gross condescension towards any self-
respecting Black person," and best thought of as
"disingenuous poison."
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All of this comes after Trump triggered outrage for
reviving a version of his "Birther" strategy during a Q&A
with the National Association of Black Journalists,
questioning Vice President Kamala Harris' racial
identity.
It also comes after Trump has repeatedly tried to make
the same sorts of "good" and "bad" distinction about
Jewish people, proclaiming them disloyal if they aren't
on board with his policy on Israel and even suggesting
Jews who vote for Democrats "should have their head
examined."
What all this means, concluded DeVega, is that the
election this year is a "referendum on our national
character," and that Harris' multiracial background "is a
powerful weapon that can be used to beat back the new Jim
and Jane Crow apartheid and an attempt to bring American
back to the worst part of its history that Trump and his
neofascist MAGA movement represent."
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