Editor,
I take issue with Sue Lempert’s opinion column on Aug. 31 (“Which convention made you hopeful?). In describing a speech made by U.S. Sen. Tim Scott at the Republican Convention last week, Ms. Lempert opines: “Nobody believes it was a pitch for Black voters, instead it was for white voters to make them feel better about supporting a racist.”
This statement is extremely divisive. I ask Ms. Lempert, how does your inflammatory statement provide the much-needed healing our nation currently needs?
The speakers at the RNC last week, from all racial backgrounds and beliefs could not be accused of making white voters “feel better about supporting a racist.” Unfortunately, “racist” is a term is overused by politicians and the media without clear evidence.
Ms. Lempert, Donald J. Trump is not a racist, and I will be voting for him along with more than 65 million other voters on Nov. 3.
Ron Drelich
South San Francisco
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Sue is just a dried up old liberal. I completely agree with you but don't let it bother you. It will not be the first divisive thing she ever wrote about and it will not be the last. These days, Trump taught us to just punch back hard and stand your ground, it is much more effective.
Punch back hard. Be violent, Trump would be proud.
When attacked, Trump has shown the way. Sometimes we are forced to answer violence with more violence. I am sure Abraham Lincoln was proud of his Union soldiers when they used violence to stop the civil war in our country. Same exact thing.
Yes, Trump has always promoted violence. It started back in 2016 when he said he would pay the legal fees of a man charged with hitting a protester in the face at one of his rallies. It was the latest of many occasions when the leading Republican candidate for president appeared to condone or accept violence by supporters.
Hey, it's my buddy, Tommy Tee-DS. Obviously, someone seems to have forgotten about the violence perpetrated by the Democrat KKK. And don't forget your beloved Joe Hiden, who tacitly accepts the violence occurring for over 100 days in Portland. Will Joe ever come out of his basement and string 100 coherent words together?
To Mr. Drelich and others that believe Donald Trump is not a racist, remember that the sun always rises in the west and sets in the east.
Hello, Tafhdyd
Before going any further, let me state that I do not approve of some things Donald Trump does and some things that he says, but I don't see a case being made for labeling him a racist based on his time in office. What has been the African American community's experience during that time? Before COVID, we saw record low black unemployment, prison reform (which has a huge impact on the black community), and a push for letting black families use school vouchers. One more thing, Donald Trump supports the pro-life movement. Why is that an important point in deciding whether Donald Trump may be racist? Since Roe v Wade was decided in 1973, there have been 60 million abortions in the US... 22 million of those terminations were black unborn. Today, 60% of Planned Parenthood clinics are within walking distance of black communities, and in New York, more black babies are aborted than allowed to be born. In any other region of the world, we could likely refer to those numbers as genocide. Sad.
Yes, we can set aside the RNC's inspiring stories of black success as political theater, but leftist histrionics labeling Donald Trump as a racist are the same. He is many things that many people don't like... racist is not one of those things.
I'm sure you disagree. Tell me why.
Hello Ray,
Yes I do have a few things to say about Trump being a racist.
First let me say a tiger cannot change his stripes. You mentioned his time in office and I will get to that also.
I am sure you are aware of the justice departments suits against the Trump organization for housing discrimination in 73 and 78. In 1989 he preached that the Central Park Five were guilty of rape and as late as 2019 he still says they are guilty even after DNA evidence exonerated them in 2002. In 1991 in an interview for a book, "Trumped", by John O'Donnell he said "I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes.... Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else... Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that's guy's lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks."
As for more recently since he is in office he has berated Mexicans, saying they are rapists and criminals and maybe a few are good people. He said a Federal judge in New Mexico with a hispanic name should not be allowed to here a case against him because he would be prejudiced. He wanted a total ban on Muslims. He said the white supremacists and Nazis were fine people after the Charlottesville protests. Last and certainly not least he called the Haitian and African nations "sh**hole countries".
If that doesn't give you an indication of his racism maybe we can agree that if nothing else he is a xenophobic bigot.
Mr. Fowler, of course Laffy Taffy is going to disagree. He has full blown TDS and sees racism everywhere he looks when it suits his narrative. However, if we take Laffy Taffy’s argument that a tiger cannot change his stripes, Democrats will want a return to slavery, a return to the days of the KKK, no civil rights, giving pallets of money to Iran and Hunter Biden, and anarchy in the streets, like in Portland, Chicago, New York. Do we want America to sink back into those depths? I think not, but according to Taffy, Democrats do, because they can't change their stripes.
Ron, do you really think there are still as much as 65 million slow learners among the voters? Or, do you expect the usual Republican tricks and voter suppression to work again, like in 2016?
Jorg once again, you are the slow learner. While only the folks that you run around with are better educated, the smarter ones, those who actually use their education, however minimal by your standard, will be voting for Trump. Actually only sheeple will vote for Biden's hype and phony solutions that he has not been able to implement in 45 years at the trough.
Says one who is still fooled by Trump, - after 4 years of lying and blatant mismanagement!
I have to admit you have a point there, Dirk! I AM a slow learned at times! I can’t for the life of me understand how anyone in his or her right mind can be so dumb that they let a psychotic liar of a conman like Donald Trump lead them astray straight off the cliff. Is it simply a lack of basic intelligence, lack of facts, blind ignorance, or simply a childish fantasy that a dream world will emerge from the ashes once Trump has burned down what’s left?
And Tommy, where were you when we found out that 16 Biden staffers and Kamela Harris posted bail for murderers and looters in NYC and MInneapolis? Oh, I forget, they were peaceful murderers and looters.
Terence--Welcome! Where ya been--hiding in your basement these past months? Glad to see the other half of the Bobbsey Twins is back.
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