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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 01:02 AM Aug 2016

'A Racist Is as a Racist Does'

... Montel Williams calls it like he sees it ...

“This false invitation for African-American representation in the Trump campaign has been equal to the false invitation for African-American participation, minority participation, in the Republican Party for the last 20 years” ...

“You cannot go back and now retract your statements and your past to try to say that you’re not what you have been” ...

... Williams, a longtime conservative, will be voting for Hillary Clinton in November — although he does not agree with all of Clinton’s actions ...


http://www.mycentraloregon.com/2016/08/26/montel-williams-blasts-donald-trump-a-racist-is-as-a-racist-does/
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'A Racist Is as a Racist Does' (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2016 OP
These folks are the parents of the current racists. An apple doe not fall far from the tree. vinny9698 Aug 2016 #1
Facile. n/t Igel Aug 2016 #2
I guess he finally awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #3

vinny9698

(1,016 posts)
1. These folks are the parents of the current racists. An apple doe not fall far from the tree.
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 09:49 AM
Aug 2016

I hope that my kids would have the courage to sit, not to stand with cowards having group bravery. But none of those standing would ever do that same thing for their cause.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
3. I guess he finally
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 10:27 AM
Aug 2016

took out his earplugs. How any African American could be a republican for the last 30 years is beyond me. I guess he realizes that his money might not protect him much longer.

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