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saltyballs 398 reads
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IMHO, Trump's run for POTUS has set back race/minority relations at least 50 years. Trump is probably the most divisive candidate to ever run for POTUS and must be shown the pathway to the outhouse and not the WhiteHouse on Tuesday.  

On August 18th Trump had a rally in Charlotte, NC, where I live. I attended, with flower pens in hand, hoping to have similar interactions with his supporters before the rally started. And I did, one woman was surprised to hear me agree with her button which read “Bomb the s*** out of ISIS”. She appreciated my being there and answering her questions.

Unfortunately, Trump’s head of security made me leave because he said I was a known disrupter. I tried to explain that I was not there to protest and I would leave when Trump arrived, but he didn’t listen to me and made me leave.

There was another Trump rally in Charlotte on October 14th. This time I decided to notify the local Republican Party as well as the local and national Trump campaign of my plans. I let them know I wanted to chat with folks as they waited for the rally to start. I’d hand out pens and only engage with those who wanted to chat. I’d explain that Islam does not promote terrorism and answer any questions they may have. And I would leave when the event started.  

The few people from the Republican Party who responded were pleased to hear my purpose and goals. They didn’t think there would be a problem with me talking to folks before the event started. Although I didn’t hear back from the Trump campaign, I attended the rally with high hopes.  

When I arrived, the first person I handed a flower pen to said she gets scared when she sees people dressed like me (Islamic head covering). She said “I hate Muslims. I know a lot of people who died on September 11th.” Then she brought up some inaccurate theories about Islam and Muslims. Like the fallacy that Muslims are trying to institute Sharia (Islamic) Law in America and the debunked myth that Dearborn Michigan, which has a high concentration of Muslims, is a “No-Go Zone.”  

I explained the reality of those and other misconceptions and let her know she did not need to be afraid of the religion of Islam. I referred her to the website printed on the pen, where she could get answers to frequently asked questions.

In the end she said she felt God had sent me to her to explain things. And THAT is why I go to Trump rallies. I want to interact with people like her, and who say they hate Muslims, who would not go to open houses at Mosques or read


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stucaboy 194 reads
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2 / 13

setting back race relations with Muslims throughout the entire world. Their actions and inaction are the real problem.  Take a trip to England, Germany, or Lewiston Maine if you want to see what these people are all about. Muslims live and die for their RELIGION: nothing else matters.

quadseasonal 27 Reviews 195 reads
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3 / 13

Islam is not a race or minority.  

Race relations  set back more in the last eight than anytime since America's Civil war, has nothing to do with Mr. Trump.

 Relations in the gutter with many communities  and local police has nothing to do with Mr. Trump.
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/18/494451660/the-nations-largest-police-union-endorses-donald-trump

  President  Trump supports legal  immigration, it's unlawful entry and wholesale importation of questionable immigrants to a civilized society he's against.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427698/syria-refugees-debate-muslim-immigration

 Ask an American Native how well things go for your homeland when you don't control illegal immigration.

   

 

 

   
   
     
     
Posted By: saltyballs
IMHO, Trump's run for POTUS has set back race/minority relations at least 50 years. Trump is probably the most divisive candidate to ever run for POTUS and must be shown the pathway to the outhouse and not the WhiteHouse on Tuesday.  
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saltyballs 146 reads
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Ask an American Native how well things go for your homeland when you don't control illegal immigration.
Really, so this is the main cause of Native American poverty? Wake up cupcake, when you steal and expropriate land from Native Americans, brutalize and introduce them to "white man's" foods and diseases such as obesity, heart disease, STD's etc. WTF, do you expect? IMHO, if there is anyone that has a right to ask anyone to go home, it's the Native Americans.
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
     
     
       
       
   
 

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saltyballs 106 reads
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Ask an American Native how well things go for your homeland when you don't control illegal immigration.
Really, so this is the main cause of Native American poverty? Wake up cupcake, when you steal and expropriate land from the Native Americans, brutalize them and introduce them to white man's foods and diseases such as obesity, heart disease, STD's etc. WTF, do you expect? IMHO, if there is anyone that has a right to ask anyone to go home, it's the Native Americans.
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
     
     
       
       
   
Posted By: saltyballs
IMHO, Trump's run for POTUS has set back race/minority relations at least 50 years. Trump is probably the most divisive candidate to ever run for POTUS and must be shown the pathway to the outhouse and not the WhiteHouse on Tuesday.    
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GaGambler 102 reads
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6 / 13

and your point about Europe is spot on. Muslim have been overrunning Europe since before Donald Trump was still hosting the Apprentice.  

Just ask the people who inhabited this country before the white man got here about what happens when you don't enforce your borders. I wonder if the rag heads are going to allow those of us they haven't killed off to at least run casinos in a hundred years or so?

saltyballs 181 reads
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7 / 13

Who started the birther crap? Trump has become a huge mega phone for all the BSC race haters in America, saying in public racist things that "some" people feel, but won't say out loud. Hate to inform you, but most of the race haters are on tyour side.

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stucaboy 102 reads
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8 / 13

other uber liberal crap that was dumped on this country in the last 8 years.  We need to "bleach-Clean" away every trace of this administration like HRC did with her computers.
 If Trump broke any immigration laws then why did he not get fined, or whatever?  Whatever he did, it was above the law unlike your bubble-butt hero who has one foot in jail and praying for a POTUS pardon.

stucaboy 109 reads
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9 / 13

between Trump and HRC?

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GaGambler 136 reads
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10 / 13

Does that mean you are going to quit your job and start mooching off of church groups too?

The BSC crazies on the left were out in force long before Trump ever declared he was even running for POTUS. Obama has been by far the most divisive POTUS where it comes to race since the civil rights era.

stucaboy 126 reads
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11 / 13

prove me correct. Your dominant bitch even said so back in 2008.  What more proof is needed?  You believe everything else she said....why not this?    Does anyone, except you, still give a shit?

saltyballs 207 reads
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12 / 13

The ones that you tell yourself are usually the most destructive. I honestly get sick and tired of having to respond to the oft told lie by Republicans that “Barack Obama is the most divisive president in history”,. It is simply BS!

So, Republicans  were prepared to work alongside and compromise with President Obama when he took office in 2009, operating as a loyal opposition, but a dictatorial Obama poisoned the well and made it impossible. Seriously?

Historians are going to have a damn good laugh at that one, for a variety of reasons:

1.) The premise of the GOP claim seems to be that if Obama didn’t exist, or if some other, more reasonable Democrat occupied the White House, then the anger and resentment driving the GOP base also wouldn’t exist. As it happens, that premise is easy to test.

Once upon a time, Republicans offered up Hillary Clinton as an example of that mythical “more reasonable Democrat” with whom they could work. If “the Hildebeast” wins this election, do you think the anger and resentment that defines the GOP will recede? Did it recede during the presidency of Bill Clinton, the man they voted to impeach, the man they accused of murder, rape and drug-running? Would it disappear if Bernie Sanders were president, or John Kerry?

We all know the answer to that one. Nope!

2.) Look at the GOP’s own internal dynamics. Surely Obama can’t be accused of causing divisiveness within the GOP, where in fact he serves as a unifying figure whom all agree to hate. Yet somehow, anger, resentment and divisiveness are rampant within the party, to the point that even many Republicans fear that the party could break apart.

Republicans hate their own leadership. Did Obama cause that? They ran off John Boehner as speaker — the man who didn’t dare utter the word “compromise” for fear of losing his job — and they thoroughly despise Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who boasts a 16 percent job approval rating among Republican voters. Did Obama cause that divisiveness too? Please!

During the GOP primaries, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, elbowed their way to the front by milking that loathing of the GOP base for their own establishment. And if you listened to them talk about each other: Trump calling Cruz a cheater who stole the Iowa election, Cruz saying Trump would nuke Denmark. Chris Christie likening Cruz and Marco Rubio to grade-schoolers, then dismissing Rubio as “the boy in the bubble” who didn't dare go off the script written for him by his elders. We had Jeb Bush attacking Rubio as a weathervane forever shifting in the wind, and for Rubio’s supposedly effeminate choice of footwear, Jeb was routinely dismissed by the rest of his party as a hapless mama’s boy.

Was that all Obama’s fault? Nope! The evidence is strong that the fear and anger within the GOP is not caused by some outside agency, but is inherent within the movement to such a degree that they now know no other way of functioning.

3.) Try to imagine the GOP today WITHOUT fear, anger and resentment as animating factors. It could not exist. The talk radio industry, the conservative websites, the faux “Tea Party” pressure groups constantly begging conservatives for donations so they can fend off the pending collapse of Western civilization for one more day — the entire conservative infrastructure relies on divisiveness as its mother’s milk. They are in favor of nothing and against everything, because that’s where the money is.

That last point is critical and loaded with irony. We’re watching what happens when a political party that worships the profit motive above all else tries to apply that principle by thoroughly privatizing itself. If you think about how the modern GOP now works, it has abdicated all of its major functions — its messaging, its strategy, its selection of leadership, its goal-setting — to those whose primary goal is generating dollars for their own profit.

Free-market ideology says that ought to work great. When everybody is doing what is most profitable for themselves, theory says that the goals of the larger entity are somehow served, but it often doesn’t work out like that. In this case, the outsourcing of its central functions has left the Republican Party with no entity that is capable of making a decision for the party’s greater good and then seeing that the decision is enforced. They are instead driven by what sells — not what’s best for the country or the party or conservative principles, but what sells — and what sells is anger and resentment.

To compound that irony, the party that stresses the fact that the United States was designed as a republic — governed by representatives but not directly by the people themselves — has itself become thoroughly “small d” democratic, subject to the whims and fears of its base without an intermediary to govern them.

Is that Obama’s fault?

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