Adolph Trump says he's no racist -- FDR did it, too, with the Japanese.

[pnwmom]

And that's the one thing he's right about. FDR "did it." But "it" was a terrible, fearful, and racist thing.

People here who want to deify FDR should remember -- he led us out of the depression, instituted financial reforms that lasted for decades ,and was a giant figure for much of the 99%.

BUT he was also a racist and the person who ordered the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during WW2.

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-calls-muslims-temporarily-denied-entry-us-214140197.html

Trump showed little inclination to back down, however, and instead compared the proposed ban to actions taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt against Japanese and German "enemy aliens" during World War II, though he stopped short of advocating internment camps.

Asked in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program if his proposal went against treasured American values, he responded: "No, because FDR did it!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Yes, FDR did that, and he was absoutely wrong to have done so.

I wouldn't cite that terrible wrong as something to emulate.

[HerbChestnut]

2. Yeah I think it's universally agreed

That interning Japanese Americans was a pretty horrible thing to do.

[pnwmom]

3. Not by Adolph Trump - or his followers. n/t

[HerbChestnut]

4. That is true.

I was referring more to those on this board. That said, Trump is really starting to disturb me. He was entertaining for a while, but he's turned into something darker recently. It's sad that so many people are willing to vote for him.

[MrWendel]

5. I've already seen the future with Trump as president...

[TheFarS1de]

6. If internment equals racism ...

Where does that leave Hillary and her support of the Private Prison Industry ? By that logic Hillary is racist against AA . I would say your on very shaky ground with that statement .

[pnwmom]

8. Hillary is advocating for the end of the private prison industry.

It is false that she supports the private prison industry. She had a lobbyist law firm working for her who had many other clients, including private prisons.

Sharing an attorney with some other person or group doesn't connect you with that group.

You might as well argue that supporting FDR means you support his racism.

hillaryclinton.org

[Kalidurga]

7. The one thing he admires about FDR

and it's the most wrong thing he ever did. So very strange that man under the hair.

[Major Hogwash]

9. Bernie Sanders was alive when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese.

Hillary wasn't.