(01-12-2018, 07:51 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(01-12-2018, 07:07 PM)FBT Wrote: You didn’t answer the question. If he said it, which there are different accounts indicating he did and didn’t say it, was he wrong?

People love to throw the racist card out there.  At face value, his comment had nothing to do with race, but feel free to cling to Dick Durbin’s Account.  

In adition, Durbin said the chain migration issue is racist because blacks feel their ancestors immigrated to the US in chains, and using the term chain migration is hurtful to them and ultimately racist.  It’s complete crap as nobody has ever said anything of the sort about chain migration, but if you’re embracing his account of what Trump said, then go all in.

If not racism, what is it to refer to a group of black countries as (fix the damn filter or I'm going to stop censoring myself)holes? Chain migration is beside the point. Trump referred to a number of black countries as (fix the filter)holes, and questioned why we need any more people from them in the United States. 

To reiterate, the black countries mentioned are (fix the filter)holes, and the people living there are unwelcome in the United States. Your president's statement, not mine.

I don't see how that could possibly be defended as anything but racism.

when did we start designating countries as "Black Countries"? That in itself is racist...Ever been to Hati? It IS a [BLEEP] hole...Jamaica other than just a couple places is a [BLEEP] hole...Haitians really don't like to be called Black or African American either, they are Haitian not African American... Jamaicans don't like to be called Black or African American either...should we start calling Canada a "White Country"? I'm sure that would be called racist

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