Trump Says "I Have Great Relationships With The BLACKS"

@hedkandi1984_21 Said

I'm not offended by anything he said. Just don't vote for him. It's not like he's the only possibly racist person in your flipping country

@buffalobill90 Said

This reminds me about a debate I went to see on campus a few weeks ago. The discussion was on feminism, and one of the speakers was a self-proclaimed anti-feminist. He constantly tried to reassure the audience "I don't hate women" and "I don't hate lesbians" even though no one was making any such accusation. He used pathetic anecdotes about his friends and family to demonstrate it. In the end this apparent insecurity only made people more suspicious that he personally disliked women.

@buffalobill90 Said

I found it amusing to see him in an interview saying that America has been shamed, that it is laughed at, and its pride needs to be restored.

As a non-American, I can assure all American voters on this forum that if Donald Trump became US President your country's reputation across the pond would not improve.

@solitaire Said

One thing I love to do at work is get people to try to describe someone black to me, I pretend I don't know who the person they're talking about is and get the other person to try to describe them, you should try it and see how long it takes them to say "the black guy" It's funny to see how uncomfortable people get. What are "the blacks" calling themselves these day?

@shinobinoz Said

I think you may be making a mole hill out of a mountain. He is running for President (maybe).
He needs to be vetted. Separating "THE" blacks from everyone else could be a tell. Pays to watch.

@Spinkiegirl Said

Well I call myself by the name my parents gave me at birth! DAH!!

@hedkandi1984_21 Said

Black

Which is why I think making a fuss over this is just ridiculous. He hasn't been racist or anything, so what's the point in wasting breath over it? I haven't been offended at all by his comments. Maybe it's because I'm more secure in myself as a person, not just as a black person (?)

@shinobinoz Said

I have a great relationship with THE spinkiegirl!

@treebee Said

has Trump ever given any reason to think he is racist?

Because its a fact that older people often use wrong terminology simply because of the era they were raised in and nobody has ever bothered to explain why what they say is wrong to them.

I think every single person on the planet has said something at some point without realising there are underlying connotations to those words.

If you are going to tear down someone do it for the right reasons and dont just try and pin s*** on someone without consideration of what you are implying.

Yes "the blacks" is offensive to some people, like "the gays" is the same as saying "you people" but instead of jumping up and down and having a s*** fit people should take time to actually explain to the sayer why what they said is upsetting rather than pointing and going "he is racist"

@Spinkiegirl Said

I agree with you 100% And as far as I know, trump hasn't been accused of being racist, at least I don't think he's racist at all. I have watched him and his reality shows for years now, and i've not seen anything racist about him. But what he said and the way he singled black folks out like he did, was STUPID!!! And it made no sense to me. I am in no way offended by what he said, I just think it was thoughtless and I can predict that if he runs, he WON'T be able to count on his "great relationships with the BLACKS" Also, if trump really and honestly did have the great relationships with the black folks that he claims to have, he wouldn't need to make an admission of it to anyone!

@shinobinoz Said

I believe he is smart enough not to make that public type of mistake. However- there is the beauty queen thing where the reigning white woman was kept on for doing some things that should have caused her dismissal. The runner up being black.
And then the first black Apprentice being asked by Trump if he would co-share with a white runner-up when he never asked that of any of the white winners.
Might be coincidence. Might be.

@shinobinoz Said

Here is the Apprentice issue.
Mr Trump. You are fired!
https://www.realityblurred.com/exposed/issues/tv/randalschoice/

@treebee Said

has Trump ever given any reason to think he is racist?

Because its a fact that older people often use wrong terminology simply because of the era they were raised in and nobody has ever bothered to explain why what they say is wrong to them.

Yes "the blacks" is offensive to some people, like "the gays" is the same as saying "you people" but instead of jumping up and down and having a s*** fit people should take time to actually explain to the sayer why what they said is upsetting rather than pointing and going "he is racist"