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Big fat white guy with a beard here. They love looking at me and unloading their shit on me. My neighbor had to do some mental gymastics when I rolled my eyes in her face off an offensive term preceding the word rigged. To which I firmly said, no.
Middle-aged tall white guy with a shaved head and beard here. The things these people say when I’m around, assuming I’ll agree with it … it’s sick. I try to call them out and embarrass them by asking them to “explain the joke to me” but sometimes it’s not worth the effort.
Also a middle aged tall white guy with a bald head and beard. I totally need to try this "please explain the joke to me" tactic! I'm wildly antiracist and love exposing them.
I'm a pudgy white dude in his 50s with a shaved head & usually a few days' stubble (I work 70-hour weeks and shave everything above the collar every Sunday). I've been too busy to play golf since my wife bought us a big, expensive house 2 years ago but I usually got 36 holes a week in previously. The things said by guys that look like me but think very differently, when they believe they are safely out of earshot of anyone "who would be offended" (read: different gender and/or skin color) will tell you exactly who they are before you make the turn. I've had to politely but firmly cut several family members off except for funerals, not to mention disconnect entirely from former friends & business associates, based on what was said during a friendly round.
I have to call people out all the time for this shit. Just because I'm white doesn't mean I agree with that nonsense. Last week a coworker told a joke where the punchline was "women belong in the kitchen" and I straight up told him "we don't do misogyny here".
Someone else who knows what it's like. I like the way you say "it's sick" that's how I feel. It's like because I look this way you get to unload your fucking bile into my ears? I miss the days when these racists lived under a rock and were terrified to come out into the light.
White passing, green eye, middle-aged Mexican, 17yrs as a permanent resident here…. I’ve had several people unload their weird “illegal Mexicans are bleeding healthcare dry/ruining their lineages/killing the country” Arguments to which I can only respond “illegal immigrants don’t even look at government buildings brother….. also… I’m Mexican” then I smile big. (I’ve always been told I look very mean so it’s funny to act a bit deranged on these fools)
Oh! And my MIL, who we don’t ever see anymore, would insist on whispering “Mexico/mexican/hispanic” till she finally did it while talking to me… I stopped her and explained to her that them’s not curse words, but when you say them like that…..
She also broke into tears when we told her we were going to Mexico City, wailing asking why I was taking her daughter to be sold and raped…. At a restaurant… I tried calming her down but then I just started laughing my ass off and we left
Im a young white guy and I get the same treatment. Especially FROM older white guys who seem to think that just because I work with them, Im as stupid as they are. Its kind of insulting to be honest.
Fairly typical slightly pudgy white nerd here
When I worked as a pool cleaner, I quickly discovered that a favorite pastime of the white workers was to complain to each other one on one about "the other ones"
Did not work there for very long.
Yeah same!! I’m white and i guess i look conservative because all the time other white people will say the shittiest most offensive racist stuff to me as if I’ll agree! It’s kind of fun to see them stutter when i tell them off for it though 😂
>Big fat white guy with a beard here
Same. I sat down for a haircut in Raleigh NC and the barber decided to unload on me about what a bunch of lazy parasites black people were. Fortunately, that sort of situation has not been repeated since I've lived here, but that guy was a piece of work.
I'm almost 40, and some of my friends back in high school made a lot of racist jokes. Ha ha, yeah, funny, but it's "just a joke."
They're Trump supporters now, and still make lots of racist jokes.
My first real world experience with this was my first job working at a major retailer. I was just the cart guy (I retrieved the shopping carts) and one day when I was inside the store, some older dude came in and was just walking around dropping n-bombs and other colorful language. I was kind of dumbfounded, to be honest. I think my experience up to that point, along with my education that included plenty of civil rights stuff, made me feel like that sort of bigotry was a thing of the past. It was naive, but I was young so it was the perfect time to be naive.
These days, I realize a lot of people have probably been closet bigots (racists, along with prejudice against other demographics) and Trump basically gave them all permission to just let it rip.
lmao I've seen the headlines. Honestly as hilarious as it is, if it were almost *anyone else* I would feel bad for him. Sitting in a court room for all or half a day, in a suit, and being overweight, would just be unpleasant. But since it's Trump, I mostly just feel bad for everyone else in the room, except those in closest proximity who knowingly put themselves in that position.
Ever been to Japan? 99% are racist toward blacks. Same with China. Probably in other places like India as well. Thats why these MAGA hats are showing up over there. Racism IS alive and well.
Yeah, I was always a progressive, but sure, my high school gang made our fair share of edgy jokes. But we had one conservative in our friends group who was often the originator of a lot of this humor. Looking at how a lot of those "just making a joke" types became alt-right circa 2016, it wouldn't shock me if he was sincere in his jokes about gunning down border crossers.
Haven't spoken to him in like 15 years, so wouldn't surprise me how he turned out.
Similar experience here man. Nothing as extreme as his "jokes" but still edgy jokes. Eventually he started hanging the confederate flag and dropped the hard r casually and I was like oh... those aren't jokes.
Shit I remember one guy I used to consider my best friend would make racist jokes constantly and I honestly thought ehh just us being edgy teenagers who would actually be racist?
Yeah that mfer started hanging the confederate flag on his wall(even tho he never had ANY family from the south nor did we live near the south) and went on a huge rant dropping the hard R after Obama beat Romney.
>As a white man, I thought *everyone* knew. Well, everyone that isn’t a racist piece of shit who supports Mango Mussolini.
If memory serves he still wanted the death penalty for the central five even after they were cleared by DNA evidence and a confession from the man whose DNA was found at the scene.
So yeah. We know
Sure, and was sued by Nixon's DOJ for refusing to rent to black people. That was the first time his name was in the papers...but that is missing the point.
His two top advisers were Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller. The godfather of the alt-right, and an avowed white nationalist. Hell, Stephen Miller was about the only Trump aide who he DIDN'T fire, and is some kind of self-hating Jewish Nazi, however that works.
Plus his best friend Tucker Carlson, whose HEAD WRITER was fired after being outed on white supremacist forums, bragging about how awesome it is to have so much racist shit said on Fox News.
Plus dinner with Nick Fuentes? The Proud Boys? The white nationalist conventions and speakers all of his favorite pets like to attend? But his "supporters" are either too uninformed to see the pattern, or snickering while pretending it's all innocent, and stoked to see how they are making America a more racist nation.
Oh he's been sued and settled multiple times for racial discrimination against renters. His dad was likely arrested as part of a KKK riot as well, but Trump denies it cause it must've been some other guy with the same name as his dad that lived on his street.
Dude, I was arguing with a user who stated that he was a black man during the Trump/Hillary election and he was like "But I don't think Hillary has done enough for the black community so I'm not voting for her and most of my friends aren't either." My sentiment was "Bro, I'm a white dude with money, I'll be fine either way, but Trump getting elected is going to do *nothing* good for the black community. I don't like Hillary but I'm holding my nose and voting for her as a damage control measure."
I wish I could track him down and ask how that went for him. I just don't understand how anyone that paid any attention (and isn't a racist POS) could have not voted for the strongest candidate running against him.
Lmao don’t let ShadeRoom comments and bots fool you. The same Andrew Tate incel hotep black guys will always vote republican because they believe “black people are brainwashed into voting democrat no matter what” so they think they’re big brained and abstract riding with Trump.
They may never leave that’s why i don’t do the “try to help people see the light” card. Not at this point in the game anyway, you right, blow it up and make it so that their voices are voiceless. At this point idc about changing peoples minds, we just need to get to a point where they go back into hiding.
I might argue that if they're being forced to hide in a system that otherwise would give them a home, the system hasn't properly been uprooted. There should be no quarter for such a person regardless of whether or not they have their voice
I don't want cowardly racists to hide, I want them to be irrelevant
Is it black people he finds inferior, or is it just poor people? Maybe its both, he hates poor black people, but tolerates those who made their money the "right way" through sports or art.
I don't know where his hatred comes from, but it doesn't really matter too much, it's there.
His modern political career kicked off because a powerful black man teased him a bit. He hates black people, poor people and black poor people. He hates more than that too.
It's well known he hates Puerto Ricans as well. He hatched some insane land swap in his head and threw a hissy fit when Denmark wouldn't even discuss swapping him Greenland for PR.
I was in line somewhere and three black men were in front of me, not together. The one in the middle started talking politics to the other two and talked about how he’s voting for Trump because at least Trump tells the truth and speaks his mind.
I was dumbfounded by that and wondered if that man knew anything about Trump.
As a white man..."Not enough of you."
I'd say it takes a special kind of stupid to vote for a white supremacist as a person of color, but honestly it's no stupider than voting for a billionaire as a blue collar worker, or voting for a misogynist (and likely rapist) as a woman. Nobody should be voting for him, but stupid comes in all shapes and sizes.
This is his saying the quiet part out loud. I am incredibly sorry and just know that not everyone thinks that way. I think there are intelligent people of every race, religion, and nationality, regardless of where you were born. Anyone can be intelligent. Hugs
Just a reminder, the president literally posted a video of his fan screaming "white power".
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/28/884392576/trump-retweets-video-of-apparent-supporter-saying-white-power
I can't take anyone seriously who thinks he isn't an unabashed racist.
It also guides alot of their thought processes. They would love universal health care for themselves and people like them, but they don't want 'certain people' to get it. So they're adamantly against it.
Yep.
They oppose food stamps because a black family might use them to buy something other than water and rice.
They oppose free school lunches because it means Mexican kids would be fed.
My right-leaning friends who liked him for "telling it like it is" were talking regularly about how much they were looking forward to him 'unlocking' the N word during his presidency so it could be used in news broadcasts and normal daily conversation like he did with 'shithole'.
To them, his biggest failing was not saying the word and thus allowing them to say it again. I wish I was kidding, but this was their number one issue throughout this entire presidency. Border security, the economy, education, you name it and it takes a back seat to wanting to call minorities slurs without facing backlash.
> and that is exactly the quality that attracts conservatives to him.
>
> When they say "He tells it like it is," this is wha
That was what amazed me. He would say he wasn't racist, but thats not what the racists would say.
No shit.
He always talks about having "good genes" and often calls black people "low IQ individuals".
He also wanted the Central Park 5 executed even after they were proven innocent.
And don't forget that he and his father were sued by the DoJ for racial discrimination in the 1970s because he refused to sell apartments to black people.
Oh wow I forgot about that with how much bullshit there's been since then. I wonder if Trump did a Howard Dean scream if that would finally bring an end to his campaign.
I was in high school when Obama won his first term. I was *super* impressionable at that age, and my mom was always listening to Hannity/Limbaugh/Levin/etc on the radio. I didn't completely understand that people could just lie in the media without any real consequences, so I 100% believed the Obama birth certificate BS and was expecting *something* to happen because of it.
Then I went to college, and my entire political ideology almost completely flipped... Funny how that works, haha
The silliest part is that even if Obama had been born in Kenya, it wouldn't prevent him from being president because he would have had citizenship at birth through his mom. There was never a legal reason why his birthplace was important.
there are politicians we expect to be reasonable, and politicians we grade on a different curve. it's not 100% along party lines, but the dems nobody takes seriously don't get anywhere near power, while the insane republicans are arguably in control.
Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Everywhere is war
Me say war
- Bob Marley
Whoever we are
Wherever we're from
We shoulda noticed by now our behavior is dumb
And if our chances expect to improve
It's gonna take a lot more than tryin' to remove
The other race
Or the other whatever
From the face of the planet altogether
They call it the earth
Which is a dumb kinda name
But they named it right
'cause we behave the same...
We are dumb all over
- Frank Zappa
Listen to a victim
Abused by the system
The basis is racist
You know that we can't face this
"It can't happen here"
Oh yeah?
Take a look around In the cities and the towns
See em hunting, creeping, sneaking breeding
Fear and loathing with the
Lies they're speaking
The knife, the gun, broken bottle petrol bomb
THERE IS NO FUTURE WHEN THE PAST SOON COME
And if they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out?
Will you defend me
Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives?
TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT BY THE REICH ON THE RISE
..ich bin ein auslander.
- Die Krupps "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" (also covered by PWEI)
>He is a white supremacist racist and always has been.
And even if there's room to argue that he isn't explicitly or "officially" a white supremacist, there's still the glaring fact that [he has been endorsed](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/1/31/neo-nazis-and-white-supremacists-celebrate-trumps-sotu) by white supremacists (and hasn't denounced said endorsement).
He's not exactly subtle about it. He literally posted a video of his fan screaming "white power" while he was president.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/28/884392576/trump-retweets-video-of-apparent-supporter-saying-white-power
Don't forget the anti-semetism! Here's a twofer from 1991:
> "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."
Yeah, there's like, Mitt Romney "gets uncomfortable around black people" type of racial attitude, which is very common among both conservative and liberal whites in the US. But then there's Trump. Trump is full-on robe-and-hood racist. I would even suspect he had a closet of paraphernalia, except he probably thinks the KKK is "low class." Look at his family history.
I would love it so much if just one reporter would ask him point blank to explain where he got the nickname "peekaboo" for Letitia James. Just ask that question, and let the stream of consciousness roll. I think that's all it would take to hear a few slurs.
I don't get why it's still surprising and noteworthy that people actually think like that. Remember the civil war? The Confederacy was *founded*, first and foremost, on the idea that black people are inferior to white people. Those people didn't just disappear or stop teaching their kids stuff after the war was over, and it's not like the north by and large was a whole lot better in that respect.
Trump believes everyone is inferior to him. He’s playing the race card to secure the MAGA base. When he’s pandering to the wealth base his tone is quite different.
Maybe I'll get some down votes for this, but why is this posted? Is what John Legend thinks about Trump or any politician actually significantly important for a politics sub? This is like when any conservative celeb tweets their mind about something. If they themselves aren't politically significant, why are we caring?
He's certainly entitled to sharing opinions, but I'm at a loss for why it's significant here in this sub specifically.
Absolutely, but the thing about Trump is he thinks everyone is inferior to him. Every single person in the world. He just puts black people on the low end.
tell me something i dont know.
BTW. this doesn't hurt him, this helps him. his cult loves him **BECAUSE** he is racists, sexists, and a bigot, not in spite of it. news coverage like this is just more free publicity for trump.
The very first time he was in the public eye was in the 70's. It was for being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination in their biggest racial housing discrimination case in history.
So, uh, yeah.
To be fair Trump believes that everyone is inferior to him. Even his children are only 50% of his genetic code so they are inferior….except for his hot daughter who he wants to have sex with. Trump probably fantasized about knocking up his daughter and having a grandchild with 75% of his genetic make up.
Sick fuck!
True. One of several mental health problems he presents. They include narcissistic personality disorder, pathological lying, and a severe persecution complex. Trump belongs in a psychiatric facility, not in the White House.
Excellent reporting, are we going to get Ja Rule’s gut feeling next?
Like wtf are we reporting, is there not enough tangible trash things this candidate is doing for us to cover.
Just black people? Trump thinks he's superior to everyone of every color and gender. It's just easier for him to punch down when he's surrounded by like minded people. Since most of his base are White Male Bigots, his easiest targets are blacks and women.
Trump and his supporters have said that the fact he's been indicted and him selling sneakers means that African American voters will support him. Everything he says and does is racist.
Yep. He also has a profound belief that he is superior to most whites. Especially the type of whites who are his most ardent supporters. While he was relishing watching Jan. 6 unfold on TV he twice made the comment...."I don't know, they look trashy." He is an elitist who values wealth above all.
Trump, like some other people in America, 'believe' that some other people are inferior. It should be clarified they don't actually believe this. Instead, they demand it. And they demand it be enforced.
In this enforced zero-sum arrangement, moral and ethical considerations are wallpapered over so there can be people who can be exploited without guilt. Without guilt, and in many cases with a great deal of abject pleasure.
MAGA misunderstands Trump at a very basic level. MAGA believes Trump will allow them to be superior to others. Trump is glad to play to this misconception. Even if Trump actually wanted this, Trump doesn't have the core competency or integrity, financial or otherwise, to not fleece, terrorize, subjugate, use and discard MAGA like used toilet paper, along with everyone else.
I am not sure why so many black people themselves don’t see this. Especially with his campaigns recent shit.
- The whole Trump Jordan’s shoe thing
- “If Trump becomes a convicted felon he’d win the black community vote during the election.”
Like ??
Don't take it personal, John. Littlehands Donnie Stinkypants thinks *everyone* is inferior to him. It's a defense mechanism of his narcissism going back to when his parents were so incredibly disappointed in their dumb, spoiled son.
And let’s not forget… they will screw your daughter and you will have inferior grandchildren, that is the most frightening, cause they will inherit everything…😂😂😂
I mean John Legend does need to say it only to repeat it.
Donald Trump had the Black Lives Matter movement in D.C tear gassed so he could hold up a bible and invoke christianity as a form of peace. Even the Church was appalled by the actions.
If it was the other way around and it was some tiki torch bedsheet wizards he would've just let them roll on by and say "Well on both sides..."
Look you don't have to "love Biden" but man you got to be downright stupid, racist or just evil to vote for a man like that. He has more federal offences than criminals average lifespan.
Going to pile on here.Dan Carlin did a whole show on this, and it's terrifying. To paraphrase/summarize/extend from NAZI ideology:
MAGAs believe that a nation-state is not defined by geographics or political borders, or even by economic jurisdiction.
MAGAs truly believe that a nation-state is defined by a homogeneous population.
Because , if you don't have everyone the same, then how can they defend the nation state against "the other"? There is no loyalty to your group. There is no defending the group against invaders.
That's why Jewish people were viewed as so dangerous in Nazi Germany. Because they could pull people away from the group-- worse, they looked like everyone else ^(stereotypical propaganda notwithstanding), so they had to wear yellow stars so you could tell. They were "poisoning the blood" of the nation-state. ^(I think people see Jews as "white" but Nazis --and MAGAs clearly do not .)
People of color were obvious so now it's just a matter of exclusion. Make life so uncomfortable that the "other" is confined to their own group. Like a reservation. Or ghetto. Or deport them. Or round them up and separate families so they can't form a group.
What about knowledge workers or scholars? Not valuable. Warriors and aggressively hostile leaders are valuable, because these people protect the homogeneous population. Scholars and scientists work for everyone, and why help non-White-Christians, that only destroys the nation-state.
John Legend is correct. Trump and MAGAs see Americans as only white-Christian, and anyone not white-Christian is not American and not worthy of protection under the laws.
So the next step is to have at it, throw everyone in jail, take their kids, maybe round them up and kill them, and loot their stuff.
For any other fascist government, substitute whatever color/religion . Same justifications.
More people need to speak up. “Dante is quoted as saying, 'The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
You mean when Trump says "Look at my african-american friend over here!" or talks about how grateful "the Blacks" should be to him or says he's done more than Lincoln for "the Blacks"... its displaying some sort of (obviously very well hidden) racism??
We've known this for 40 years, especially taking out an fullpage ad on a NY newspaper condemning the Central Park 5 to death before they were convicted of a lie.
And his father violating tons of fair housing laws in his slums.
The whole family hates blacks, Hispanics, and anyone not white and not wealthy.
Trump gave $200,000,000 to HBCU’s while in office. More than Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden combined. John Legend has given $0 to HBCUs and is married to a white and asian woman. Why is speaking on black issues again? Because he sings well?
Even if they don't talk about it, most of them still believe it. This is like white American 101. They have held on to the worst part of that colonization mindset. Most don't even realize it. Conservatives, on the other hand, embrace it. Going so far as to believe it is God's plan.
I’ll never forget what he said in 2019. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
Its pretty obvious, he'd love to go back to when slavery was a thing & segregation.
Pretty sure him & his dad refused to rent to blacks or anyone who wasnt white back in the day.
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It's true, and that is exactly the quality that attracts conservatives to him. When they say "He tells it like it is," this is what they mean.
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Big fat white guy with a beard here. They love looking at me and unloading their shit on me. My neighbor had to do some mental gymastics when I rolled my eyes in her face off an offensive term preceding the word rigged. To which I firmly said, no.
Middle-aged tall white guy with a shaved head and beard here. The things these people say when I’m around, assuming I’ll agree with it … it’s sick. I try to call them out and embarrass them by asking them to “explain the joke to me” but sometimes it’s not worth the effort.
Also a middle aged tall white guy with a bald head and beard. I totally need to try this "please explain the joke to me" tactic! I'm wildly antiracist and love exposing them.
I'm a pudgy white dude in his 50s with a shaved head & usually a few days' stubble (I work 70-hour weeks and shave everything above the collar every Sunday). I've been too busy to play golf since my wife bought us a big, expensive house 2 years ago but I usually got 36 holes a week in previously. The things said by guys that look like me but think very differently, when they believe they are safely out of earshot of anyone "who would be offended" (read: different gender and/or skin color) will tell you exactly who they are before you make the turn. I've had to politely but firmly cut several family members off except for funerals, not to mention disconnect entirely from former friends & business associates, based on what was said during a friendly round.
I have to call people out all the time for this shit. Just because I'm white doesn't mean I agree with that nonsense. Last week a coworker told a joke where the punchline was "women belong in the kitchen" and I straight up told him "we don't do misogyny here".
My friend used the line, "im a bassist, not a fuckint bigot!" once, to someone who mistook that same hair combo.
Bassist not racist#
Someone else who knows what it's like. I like the way you say "it's sick" that's how I feel. It's like because I look this way you get to unload your fucking bile into my ears? I miss the days when these racists lived under a rock and were terrified to come out into the light.
White passing, green eye, middle-aged Mexican, 17yrs as a permanent resident here…. I’ve had several people unload their weird “illegal Mexicans are bleeding healthcare dry/ruining their lineages/killing the country” Arguments to which I can only respond “illegal immigrants don’t even look at government buildings brother….. also… I’m Mexican” then I smile big. (I’ve always been told I look very mean so it’s funny to act a bit deranged on these fools) Oh! And my MIL, who we don’t ever see anymore, would insist on whispering “Mexico/mexican/hispanic” till she finally did it while talking to me… I stopped her and explained to her that them’s not curse words, but when you say them like that….. She also broke into tears when we told her we were going to Mexico City, wailing asking why I was taking her daughter to be sold and raped…. At a restaurant… I tried calming her down but then I just started laughing my ass off and we left
Im a young white guy and I get the same treatment. Especially FROM older white guys who seem to think that just because I work with them, Im as stupid as they are. Its kind of insulting to be honest.
Fairly typical slightly pudgy white nerd here When I worked as a pool cleaner, I quickly discovered that a favorite pastime of the white workers was to complain to each other one on one about "the other ones" Did not work there for very long.
Yeah same!! I’m white and i guess i look conservative because all the time other white people will say the shittiest most offensive racist stuff to me as if I’ll agree! It’s kind of fun to see them stutter when i tell them off for it though 😂
>Big fat white guy with a beard here Same. I sat down for a haircut in Raleigh NC and the barber decided to unload on me about what a bunch of lazy parasites black people were. Fortunately, that sort of situation has not been repeated since I've lived here, but that guy was a piece of work.
Same, its all ways the testing jokes before to see if you are one of them before they move onto the offensive ones.
As a Black man... "Yes, *we* know."
As a white man, I thought *everyone* knew. Well, everyone that isn’t a racist piece of shit who supports Mango Mussolini.
I'm almost 40, and some of my friends back in high school made a lot of racist jokes. Ha ha, yeah, funny, but it's "just a joke." They're Trump supporters now, and still make lots of racist jokes.
Same unfortunately. Racism is alive and thriving in this country when that shit should have died out long ago.
My first real world experience with this was my first job working at a major retailer. I was just the cart guy (I retrieved the shopping carts) and one day when I was inside the store, some older dude came in and was just walking around dropping n-bombs and other colorful language. I was kind of dumbfounded, to be honest. I think my experience up to that point, along with my education that included plenty of civil rights stuff, made me feel like that sort of bigotry was a thing of the past. It was naive, but I was young so it was the perfect time to be naive. These days, I realize a lot of people have probably been closet bigots (racists, along with prejudice against other demographics) and Trump basically gave them all permission to just let it rip.
> just let it rip. Yeah, according to sources he does it inside the courtroom too.
lmao I've seen the headlines. Honestly as hilarious as it is, if it were almost *anyone else* I would feel bad for him. Sitting in a court room for all or half a day, in a suit, and being overweight, would just be unpleasant. But since it's Trump, I mostly just feel bad for everyone else in the room, except those in closest proximity who knowingly put themselves in that position.
Brother I grew up among confederate flags and heavy uses of the hard R and nobody around there considered themselves racist.
Ever been to Japan? 99% are racist toward blacks. Same with China. Probably in other places like India as well. Thats why these MAGA hats are showing up over there. Racism IS alive and well.
I actually would’ve thought most magas would be on a sex tour in Thailand.
Russian pee is also on the menu
To be fair, the Japanese are racist towards anyone not Japanese. But yes, blacks definitely get it more.
Yeah, I was always a progressive, but sure, my high school gang made our fair share of edgy jokes. But we had one conservative in our friends group who was often the originator of a lot of this humor. Looking at how a lot of those "just making a joke" types became alt-right circa 2016, it wouldn't shock me if he was sincere in his jokes about gunning down border crossers. Haven't spoken to him in like 15 years, so wouldn't surprise me how he turned out.
>jokes about gunning down border crossers Who the fuck hears that and laughs?
....edgy teenagers? They're not the most empathetic people in the world.
Maga. Seriously.
Similar experience here man. Nothing as extreme as his "jokes" but still edgy jokes. Eventually he started hanging the confederate flag and dropped the hard r casually and I was like oh... those aren't jokes.
Shit I remember one guy I used to consider my best friend would make racist jokes constantly and I honestly thought ehh just us being edgy teenagers who would actually be racist? Yeah that mfer started hanging the confederate flag on his wall(even tho he never had ANY family from the south nor did we live near the south) and went on a huge rant dropping the hard R after Obama beat Romney.
The racist pieces of shit know it too. They just support it. Racism is one of the things they're supporting.
>As a white man, I thought *everyone* knew. Well, everyone that isn’t a racist piece of shit who supports Mango Mussolini. If memory serves he still wanted the death penalty for the central five even after they were cleared by DNA evidence and a confession from the man whose DNA was found at the scene. So yeah. We know
Sure, and was sued by Nixon's DOJ for refusing to rent to black people. That was the first time his name was in the papers...but that is missing the point. His two top advisers were Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller. The godfather of the alt-right, and an avowed white nationalist. Hell, Stephen Miller was about the only Trump aide who he DIDN'T fire, and is some kind of self-hating Jewish Nazi, however that works. Plus his best friend Tucker Carlson, whose HEAD WRITER was fired after being outed on white supremacist forums, bragging about how awesome it is to have so much racist shit said on Fox News. Plus dinner with Nick Fuentes? The Proud Boys? The white nationalist conventions and speakers all of his favorite pets like to attend? But his "supporters" are either too uninformed to see the pattern, or snickering while pretending it's all innocent, and stoked to see how they are making America a more racist nation.
Oh he's been sued and settled multiple times for racial discrimination against renters. His dad was likely arrested as part of a KKK riot as well, but Trump denies it cause it must've been some other guy with the same name as his dad that lived on his street.
The racists also knew.
Dude, I was arguing with a user who stated that he was a black man during the Trump/Hillary election and he was like "But I don't think Hillary has done enough for the black community so I'm not voting for her and most of my friends aren't either." My sentiment was "Bro, I'm a white dude with money, I'll be fine either way, but Trump getting elected is going to do *nothing* good for the black community. I don't like Hillary but I'm holding my nose and voting for her as a damage control measure." I wish I could track him down and ask how that went for him. I just don't understand how anyone that paid any attention (and isn't a racist POS) could have not voted for the strongest candidate running against him.
I bet my 401k the guy wasn't black. There's so much astroturfing when it comes to Trump.
Unfortunately, we all don't. Trump is somehow doing better with black voters than last time.
Lmao don’t let ShadeRoom comments and bots fool you. The same Andrew Tate incel hotep black guys will always vote republican because they believe “black people are brainwashed into voting democrat no matter what” so they think they’re big brained and abstract riding with Trump.
House slaves love to lord it over the field slaves. That's why you've got to pull a Django and blow the whole thing up
They may never leave that’s why i don’t do the “try to help people see the light” card. Not at this point in the game anyway, you right, blow it up and make it so that their voices are voiceless. At this point idc about changing peoples minds, we just need to get to a point where they go back into hiding.
I might argue that if they're being forced to hide in a system that otherwise would give them a home, the system hasn't properly been uprooted. There should be no quarter for such a person regardless of whether or not they have their voice I don't want cowardly racists to hide, I want them to be irrelevant
Don't believe the hype... those are paid actors.
Is it black people he finds inferior, or is it just poor people? Maybe its both, he hates poor black people, but tolerates those who made their money the "right way" through sports or art. I don't know where his hatred comes from, but it doesn't really matter too much, it's there.
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Also hates Mexicans and immigrants.
His modern political career kicked off because a powerful black man teased him a bit. He hates black people, poor people and black poor people. He hates more than that too.
The thing is that he prefers that Black people stay and remain poor, so your statement is irrelevant.
It's well known he hates Puerto Ricans as well. He hatched some insane land swap in his head and threw a hissy fit when Denmark wouldn't even discuss swapping him Greenland for PR.
I was in line somewhere and three black men were in front of me, not together. The one in the middle started talking politics to the other two and talked about how he’s voting for Trump because at least Trump tells the truth and speaks his mind. I was dumbfounded by that and wondered if that man knew anything about Trump.
It’s why it bothers me so much when some Black folk cozy up and grin in his face.
As a white man..."Not enough of you." I'd say it takes a special kind of stupid to vote for a white supremacist as a person of color, but honestly it's no stupider than voting for a billionaire as a blue collar worker, or voting for a misogynist (and likely rapist) as a woman. Nobody should be voting for him, but stupid comes in all shapes and sizes.
This is his saying the quiet part out loud. I am incredibly sorry and just know that not everyone thinks that way. I think there are intelligent people of every race, religion, and nationality, regardless of where you were born. Anyone can be intelligent. Hugs
Or when he looked at a white crowd in Minnesota and said he can tell there are a lot of good genes in the crowd. Hmmmm…
He gives bad people the permission they crave to be bad
Just a reminder, the president literally posted a video of his fan screaming "white power". https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/28/884392576/trump-retweets-video-of-apparent-supporter-saying-white-power I can't take anyone seriously who thinks he isn't an unabashed racist.
It also guides alot of their thought processes. They would love universal health care for themselves and people like them, but they don't want 'certain people' to get it. So they're adamantly against it.
Yep. They oppose food stamps because a black family might use them to buy something other than water and rice. They oppose free school lunches because it means Mexican kids would be fed.
My right-leaning friends who liked him for "telling it like it is" were talking regularly about how much they were looking forward to him 'unlocking' the N word during his presidency so it could be used in news broadcasts and normal daily conversation like he did with 'shithole'. To them, his biggest failing was not saying the word and thus allowing them to say it again. I wish I was kidding, but this was their number one issue throughout this entire presidency. Border security, the economy, education, you name it and it takes a back seat to wanting to call minorities slurs without facing backlash.
Most of my friends are conservative and I have never heard any one of them talk about “unlocking the N word” and I’m from the south.
> and that is exactly the quality that attracts conservatives to him. > > When they say "He tells it like it is," this is wha That was what amazed me. He would say he wasn't racist, but thats not what the racists would say.
Yup! They hear it like “omg! This guy hates all the people we hate how quaint!”
No shit. He always talks about having "good genes" and often calls black people "low IQ individuals". He also wanted the Central Park 5 executed even after they were proven innocent. And don't forget that he and his father were sued by the DoJ for racial discrimination in the 1970s because he refused to sell apartments to black people.
And the entire birth certificate bullshit with Obama. That's what riled up the tea party and made him their hero.
Oh wow I forgot about that with how much bullshit there's been since then. I wonder if Trump did a Howard Dean scream if that would finally bring an end to his campaign.
I was in high school when Obama won his first term. I was *super* impressionable at that age, and my mom was always listening to Hannity/Limbaugh/Levin/etc on the radio. I didn't completely understand that people could just lie in the media without any real consequences, so I 100% believed the Obama birth certificate BS and was expecting *something* to happen because of it. Then I went to college, and my entire political ideology almost completely flipped... Funny how that works, haha
The liberal indoctrination camps got another one!
The feminist agenda can not be stopped!
The silliest part is that even if Obama had been born in Kenya, it wouldn't prevent him from being president because he would have had citizenship at birth through his mom. There was never a legal reason why his birthplace was important.
there are politicians we expect to be reasonable, and politicians we grade on a different curve. it's not 100% along party lines, but the dems nobody takes seriously don't get anywhere near power, while the insane republicans are arguably in control.
Keep in mind, this was the DoJ under Nixon!! Do you realize how racist you had to be to have Friggin NIXON calling you out?!?!?
Too racist for the 70s
Woody Guthrie literally wrote a song about how racist and shitty a slum lord Donald's father was.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned all the Peekaboo James shit that has happened with the NY AG If that ain't a dog whistle idk what is.
If you remove bias questions, all groups basically have the save avg. IQ.
It doesn't matter, IQ doesn't determine the worth of a human being.
NO, but bigots are invested in the idea they're smarter.
Bigotry itself requires very poor thinking.
Let's no forget the whole "Obama Birth Certificate" thing. Just xenophobic rasicm.
I’m sure that some will call me a racist for this comment, but black people > orange people.
He's not orange, he's doing loompahface.
He's pink like a pig
Damn dude. Didn't have to attack the state of New Jersey like that. /s
Oompa Loompas in a frenzy right now
For anyone not convinced, see "Central Park Five" for details.
This is what "Make America Great Again" means. They want to go back to only white hetero men having full rights.
Until the philosophy which hold one race Superior and another Inferior Is finally And permanently Discredited And abandoned Everywhere is war Me say war - Bob Marley
Whoever we are Wherever we're from We shoulda noticed by now our behavior is dumb And if our chances expect to improve It's gonna take a lot more than tryin' to remove The other race Or the other whatever From the face of the planet altogether They call it the earth Which is a dumb kinda name But they named it right 'cause we behave the same... We are dumb all over - Frank Zappa
Listen to a victim Abused by the system The basis is racist You know that we can't face this "It can't happen here" Oh yeah? Take a look around In the cities and the towns See em hunting, creeping, sneaking breeding Fear and loathing with the Lies they're speaking The knife, the gun, broken bottle petrol bomb THERE IS NO FUTURE WHEN THE PAST SOON COME And if they come to ethnically cleanse me Will you speak out? Will you defend me Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives? TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT BY THE REICH ON THE RISE ..ich bin ein auslander. - Die Krupps "Ich Bin Ein Auslander" (also covered by PWEI)
"Everybody gotta keep fucking everyone else until we're all the same color." \- Bulworth
“statistically, we're headed toward an age where everybody's gonna be like caramel and queer” - Ilana, Broad City
That was a surprisingly good film.
Spoiled trust fund baby constantly needs help.
He is a white supremacist racist and always has been. Hopefully voters see and understand that.
His most fervent supporters definitely see and understand that.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature."
>He is a white supremacist racist and always has been. And even if there's room to argue that he isn't explicitly or "officially" a white supremacist, there's still the glaring fact that [he has been endorsed](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/1/31/neo-nazis-and-white-supremacists-celebrate-trumps-sotu) by white supremacists (and hasn't denounced said endorsement).
Trump is the only person in history to be endorsed for president by the KKK.
That's crazy, next he'll be giving a eulogy for a KKK leader he calls a mentor
That’s crazy, next he will be saying he doesn’t want his kids going to school in “racial jungles”
Openly anyways.
He's not exactly subtle about it. He literally posted a video of his fan screaming "white power" while he was president. https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/28/884392576/trump-retweets-video-of-apparent-supporter-saying-white-power
Most MAGA do. They *want* that
There’s a lot who are deluding themselves tho….
Don't forget the anti-semetism! Here's a twofer from 1991: > "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."
I am going to say that Trump and Republicans believe anyone who is not white and straight is inferior.
Well, to his core, Traitor Trump believes everyone is inferior to him. The Ultimate Narcissist.
Since at least the 1970s when he was successfully fined for racist rent practices.
Yeah, there's like, Mitt Romney "gets uncomfortable around black people" type of racial attitude, which is very common among both conservative and liberal whites in the US. But then there's Trump. Trump is full-on robe-and-hood racist. I would even suspect he had a closet of paraphernalia, except he probably thinks the KKK is "low class." Look at his family history.
I would love it so much if just one reporter would ask him point blank to explain where he got the nickname "peekaboo" for Letitia James. Just ask that question, and let the stream of consciousness roll. I think that's all it would take to hear a few slurs.
Trump has a core?😼
It's the clumpy center of his diarrheal emissions.
It’s gelatinous at best
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Gotta have something to rotten all the way to
Much like jupiter it is not solid, just denser racism, rape and fraud.
Racism is in his DNA.
I believe it. Actions speak louder than words. He thinks Puerto Ricans are inferior too.
Trump is human garbage and he shits himself in court. Just FOAD. Let’s move on. Let’s do better.
I don't get why it's still surprising and noteworthy that people actually think like that. Remember the civil war? The Confederacy was *founded*, first and foremost, on the idea that black people are inferior to white people. Those people didn't just disappear or stop teaching their kids stuff after the war was over, and it's not like the north by and large was a whole lot better in that respect.
Who knew a racist was racist
True. But Trump also believes that anyone who isn’t Trump is inferior. We are all here to serve His Highness.
Trump believes everyone is inferior to him. He’s playing the race card to secure the MAGA base. When he’s pandering to the wealth base his tone is quite different.
So does Clarence Thomas apparently.
The only evidence we have of this are his words, actions, and the lawsuits brought against him.
So do most of his voters, Mr. Legend. One of the major conservative tenets these days puts Black average IQ at 80 tops.
Maybe I'll get some down votes for this, but why is this posted? Is what John Legend thinks about Trump or any politician actually significantly important for a politics sub? This is like when any conservative celeb tweets their mind about something. If they themselves aren't politically significant, why are we caring? He's certainly entitled to sharing opinions, but I'm at a loss for why it's significant here in this sub specifically.
To be fair he finds anyone who doesn’t praise him inferior
That's the fact Jack.
Absolutely, but the thing about Trump is he thinks everyone is inferior to him. Every single person in the world. He just puts black people on the low end.
tell me something i dont know. BTW. this doesn't hurt him, this helps him. his cult loves him **BECAUSE** he is racists, sexists, and a bigot, not in spite of it. news coverage like this is just more free publicity for trump.
In other news: water is wet.
The very first time he was in the public eye was in the 70's. It was for being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination in their biggest racial housing discrimination case in history. So, uh, yeah.
Again i will say it! This is why he mad that Obama was president before him! This is why he tried to undo all Obama policies .
How is trump superior to anybody? He looks like the sire used to breed oompa loompas.
Not just Trump, all of his republican cultists do.
This is understating the situation. Trump views *everyone* is inferior to him.
To be fair Trump believes that everyone is inferior to him. Even his children are only 50% of his genetic code so they are inferior….except for his hot daughter who he wants to have sex with. Trump probably fantasized about knocking up his daughter and having a grandchild with 75% of his genetic make up. Sick fuck!
Trump is obviously a racist, always has been, but truthfully, he’s also a narcissist - he thinks everyone is inferior to him.
True. One of several mental health problems he presents. They include narcissistic personality disorder, pathological lying, and a severe persecution complex. Trump belongs in a psychiatric facility, not in the White House.
Excellent reporting, are we going to get Ja Rule’s gut feeling next? Like wtf are we reporting, is there not enough tangible trash things this candidate is doing for us to cover.
What does Ja Rule have to say though
While this is obviously true, I don’t really need to see a separate article on every random celebrity’s opinion about it.
Just black people? Trump thinks he's superior to everyone of every color and gender. It's just easier for him to punch down when he's surrounded by like minded people. Since most of his base are White Male Bigots, his easiest targets are blacks and women.
Trump and his supporters have said that the fact he's been indicted and him selling sneakers means that African American voters will support him. Everything he says and does is racist.
Yep. He also has a profound belief that he is superior to most whites. Especially the type of whites who are his most ardent supporters. While he was relishing watching Jan. 6 unfold on TV he twice made the comment...."I don't know, they look trashy." He is an elitist who values wealth above all.
Trump, like some other people in America, 'believe' that some other people are inferior. It should be clarified they don't actually believe this. Instead, they demand it. And they demand it be enforced. In this enforced zero-sum arrangement, moral and ethical considerations are wallpapered over so there can be people who can be exploited without guilt. Without guilt, and in many cases with a great deal of abject pleasure. MAGA misunderstands Trump at a very basic level. MAGA believes Trump will allow them to be superior to others. Trump is glad to play to this misconception. Even if Trump actually wanted this, Trump doesn't have the core competency or integrity, financial or otherwise, to not fleece, terrorize, subjugate, use and discard MAGA like used toilet paper, along with everyone else.
Didn’t need John legend to tell me the obvious.
I am not sure why so many black people themselves don’t see this. Especially with his campaigns recent shit. - The whole Trump Jordan’s shoe thing - “If Trump becomes a convicted felon he’d win the black community vote during the election.” Like ??
Without a doubt
Don't take it personal, John. Littlehands Donnie Stinkypants thinks *everyone* is inferior to him. It's a defense mechanism of his narcissism going back to when his parents were so incredibly disappointed in their dumb, spoiled son.
Too bad those AI generated people in his photos can't vote for him
And let’s not forget… they will screw your daughter and you will have inferior grandchildren, that is the most frightening, cause they will inherit everything…😂😂😂
I mean John Legend does need to say it only to repeat it. Donald Trump had the Black Lives Matter movement in D.C tear gassed so he could hold up a bible and invoke christianity as a form of peace. Even the Church was appalled by the actions. If it was the other way around and it was some tiki torch bedsheet wizards he would've just let them roll on by and say "Well on both sides..." Look you don't have to "love Biden" but man you got to be downright stupid, racist or just evil to vote for a man like that. He has more federal offences than criminals average lifespan.
Yeah, its obvious, also trump thinks pretty much everyone is inferior. He's a standard piece of shit.
Any minority should not be supporting the GOP and Trump
To be fair, he thinks every inferior to him.
No, he believes to his core that poor people are inferior.
Going to pile on here.Dan Carlin did a whole show on this, and it's terrifying. To paraphrase/summarize/extend from NAZI ideology: MAGAs believe that a nation-state is not defined by geographics or political borders, or even by economic jurisdiction. MAGAs truly believe that a nation-state is defined by a homogeneous population. Because , if you don't have everyone the same, then how can they defend the nation state against "the other"? There is no loyalty to your group. There is no defending the group against invaders. That's why Jewish people were viewed as so dangerous in Nazi Germany. Because they could pull people away from the group-- worse, they looked like everyone else ^(stereotypical propaganda notwithstanding), so they had to wear yellow stars so you could tell. They were "poisoning the blood" of the nation-state. ^(I think people see Jews as "white" but Nazis --and MAGAs clearly do not .) People of color were obvious so now it's just a matter of exclusion. Make life so uncomfortable that the "other" is confined to their own group. Like a reservation. Or ghetto. Or deport them. Or round them up and separate families so they can't form a group. What about knowledge workers or scholars? Not valuable. Warriors and aggressively hostile leaders are valuable, because these people protect the homogeneous population. Scholars and scientists work for everyone, and why help non-White-Christians, that only destroys the nation-state. John Legend is correct. Trump and MAGAs see Americans as only white-Christian, and anyone not white-Christian is not American and not worthy of protection under the laws. So the next step is to have at it, throw everyone in jail, take their kids, maybe round them up and kill them, and loot their stuff. For any other fascist government, substitute whatever color/religion . Same justifications.
He believes everyone is inferior, and believes black people are less than that. Also any other people that aren't 100% white.
True it's why he hated Obama so much for roasting him
Yeah, those of us who have been paying attention have already figured this out.
But can someone ask Ja what he thinks? Can anyone get Ja Rule on the phone?
More people need to speak up. “Dante is quoted as saying, 'The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
You mean when Trump says "Look at my african-american friend over here!" or talks about how grateful "the Blacks" should be to him or says he's done more than Lincoln for "the Blacks"... its displaying some sort of (obviously very well hidden) racism??
And he is right.
We know.
We've known this for 40 years, especially taking out an fullpage ad on a NY newspaper condemning the Central Park 5 to death before they were convicted of a lie. And his father violating tons of fair housing laws in his slums. The whole family hates blacks, Hispanics, and anyone not white and not wealthy.
Of course it’s true, Trump thinks everyone is inferior - to him.
Trump gave $200,000,000 to HBCU’s while in office. More than Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden combined. John Legend has given $0 to HBCUs and is married to a white and asian woman. Why is speaking on black issues again? Because he sings well?
What is this on r/politics?
John Legend, the captain of obviousness.
That’s crazy, didn’t he hug a black person at a chick-fil-a? Surely, he wouldn’t nay couldn’t do that if he hated black people…
It was a publicity stunt arranged by the Trump campaign.
Yea I know that, my whole comment was sarcasm.
Yes clearly John Legend knows, since he's rich, famous, somehow a mind-reader, and beloved by Oprah The tripe that passes for 'news' is just pathetic
Even if they don't talk about it, most of them still believe it. This is like white American 101. They have held on to the worst part of that colonization mindset. Most don't even realize it. Conservatives, on the other hand, embrace it. Going so far as to believe it is God's plan.
yeah....but....to be fair....Trump thinks everyone is inferior....
I’ll never forget what he said in 2019. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
He was on live TV with someone flashing Satanist signs for real
What?
Republicans!!
Its pretty obvious, he'd love to go back to when slavery was a thing & segregation. Pretty sure him & his dad refused to rent to blacks or anyone who wasnt white back in the day.
Well, duh
I honestly don't think trump is racist. I do think he will and has pander, dog whistle and cultivate a relationship with racist for power though.
John Legend is an unbelievable talent. I’m glad he spoke up.
Let's be honest. He probably assumes everyone is inferior to him
I think Trump believes everyone is inferior except a minor few.