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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Trump was frequently critical of BLM before then even took much interest in him. He rather famously said that he would never let them take the mic from him the way that Sanders had and suggested that he would use force to prevent it. He then retweeted false crime statistics that were biased against blacks. To add insult to injury, the tweet originated with a white supremacist.

Moreover, Trump has a history where blacks are concerned. He violated fair housing laws by discriminating against black applicants for his rental properties. Many feel that his "birtherism" with regard to Obama was motivated by race (though his similar attack on Cruz might negate that a bit). Also, he has made questionable -- and not so questionable -- statements such as:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/592910662424223744

"Our great African American President hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!"

And:

"African-American youth are at a point where they've just about never done more poorly, there's no spirit, there’s killings on an hourly basis virtually in places like Baltimore and Chicago and many other places."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-says-african-american-youths-have-no-spirit-10342030.html

He then went on to blame Obama for that. While there are far too many killings of and by black youth in many parts of the country, it is wrong to say that there is no spirit among black youth or that they have never done more poorly. Trump unfairly stereotypes a very heterogeneous community.

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Add to all that [b]Trump chanting All Lives Matter at his rallies[/b].[/quote]

That is plain horrible.[/quote]

Why exactly?  Don't all lives matter??

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Of course all lives DO matter but "All Lives Matter" is not a movement or a call to action.  It is a whiny retort to an issue that a significant part of our society feels is important.  If you are not willing to hold police officers up to scrutiny and hold them accountable when they kill someone, Black or White, than you should not be chanting "All Lives Matter" like it is some call to action.  Someone saying "Black Lives Matter" is not saying that all lives don't matter.

Signed

A White woman who is tired of all the whining from the Right. [/quote]

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