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President Trump: a realist or a racist?

This is not about Donald Trump being a racist. It is about examining what he allegedly said or did not say:

How is it that people using squat holds continue coming to the United States; using American resources and not wanting to return to their own social system? The answer may not be that difficult..

Would any American having running water and a toilet that flushes want to return to squat-hold society where people poop in the ground to relieve themselves? For that matter, would any “United Nations” representative from a squat-hold system now living in the States, want to return to a squat-hold system?

Is Trump talking about social conditions/systems? If that be so, than such does not constitute racism. Cinder-block buildings that keep falling down with every flood isn’t racism, it’s truth.

Likewise, for many Americans, squat-hold social systems were considered inexpensive, exotic and “picturesque.” the playground of the stars, until they became dumps for our homegrown rag pickers.

Charlie Moore, Orange Cove

This story was originally published January 21, 2018 at 2:48 PM with the headline "President Trump: a realist or a racist?."

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