Just because Trump’s son in law is an Orthodox Jew and his daughter converted
doesn’t mean that Trump is not an anti-Semite. How many times do we see it that
a racist will accept his son’s black wife, but still retains his prejudices
and bigotry about other black people, a homophobe will accept her daughter’s
girlfriend but otherwise remain a homophobe.
People often circle the wagons when it comes to their own children or other
family members, but it does not change their bigotry, it makes an exception for
their own, and it’s the exception that proves the rule.
I knew a woman, old, elder, whatever you want to call it, who was as white
bread as they come, and when one of her children or grandchildren, I forget
which married an African American, the woman could never speak about him
without adding, “He’s the nicest person you’d ever want to meet.”
Now what does that tell you, that she had to inform you that this black man was
a nice person? Would she have done the same for a white guy? She never added
that phrase when talking about the spouses of her other progeny...
And, anyway, there’s something extra creepy about Donald’s interactions with
Ivanka...On Aug 23, 2016, at 1:18 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Bob,
In response to your last point, I think that people of color voted for
Clinton because they were misinformed by the mass media and by their own
leaders who are bought off by the Democratic Party establishment. How many
of them, for example, know that the board of the Congressional Black Caucus
is made up largely of CEO's of corporations, not black congressional
representatives? Remember that when Obama first started campaigning for the
Presidency, all of the black establishment leaders were supporting Hillary.
People are not given facts. Remember Trump's supposedly anti semitic tweet?
How many people know that he has an Orthodox Jewish son-in-law and that his
daughter, so active in his campaign, converted to Judaism when she married?
My point is that everything that is said and done in campaigns is for public
consumption and is completely unrelated to reality.
Miriam
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Hi Charlie,
Firstly, glad you got to have that good experience in Colorado. I recently
attended the wedding of my sinster-in-law to a great guy and it was
wonderful.
Secondly, I agree completely with you that a President Trump is unthinkable.
But I cant bring myself to say that Clinton is good, just a good bit less
bad.
Frankly, I believe that, in many ways, we have been regressing as a society
since the election of Ronald Reagan and some of that regression has taken
place under Clinton and even under Obama.
IT sickens me to the core to see corporatist Democrats like the Clintons and
John Kerry continually coddling our wealthiest citizens. Yes, they sometimes
talk a good game, but when the rubber meets the road, they always seem to
not go far enough.
It is surely not all their fault as the Republicans seem to be better at
negative campaigning and boy am I disgusted by how well negative campaigning
seems to work in this so-called civilized society.
Bottom line here. What does it say about our society when Hillary Clinton
seems to be the best we can do?
One more point here. How do we explain the fact that members of minority
populations chose Clinton over Sanders by a rather wide margin? Frankly, I
believe that they were not voting in favor of their best econbomic
interests.
Bob Hachey
