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   Trump is a worthless racist toxic piece of shit.   Thank God his mind is   
   shot and he'll soon die along with the other feeble MAGA geriatrics.   
      
   I'd like to see you killed with a Hakapik.   
      
   September 11th, 2025   
   Trump's Racist Attack on Black America   
   David R. Jones, The Urban Agenda   
      
   Donald Trump no longer hides his contempt for Black and brown people. His   
   racist attacks are no longer abstract. He openly feeds white grievance that   
   fuels so much of our political discourse using direct and explicit white   
   supremacist tropes and regressive policies.   
      
   Pique over Trump's power grabs, mass deportations and fraying the social   
   safety net consumes news coverage and public debate about his second term.   
   And rightfully so, because the dramatic Medicaid, housing and federal job   
   cuts have left so many poor and working-class people in a bind – and often   
   hopeless.   
      
   The president's nonstop outrages, however, have provided cover to cast   
   himself as a protector of persecuted white people. The message of his   
   strategic incitements is clear in the assault on diversity and inclusion,   
   the desire to downplay slavery, attacks on Black leaders and majority-Black   
   cities, support for Confederate monuments and granting migrant status to   
   white Afrikaners from South Africa. Not coincidently, the administration's   
   purge of 97,000 federal workers disproportionately impacted Black women.   
      
   Trump now has New York City's mayoral election in his sights, dangling   
   ambassadorships and other federal jobs in an apparent attempt to cull the   
   field of candidates. Does anyone believe his carpetbagging will help New   
   Yorkers, 70 percent of whom are the very Black, Latinx, Asian and other   
   groups the president loathes?   
      
   The mayoral candidates have an obligation – moral, personal and political –   
   to speak out forcefully against this racist felon and grifter. They are   
   courting the votes of Black New Yorkers to win the election. Voters deserve   
   to know where the candidates stand on Trump. The stakes could not be   
   higher.   
      
   Aside from running America's largest city, the election matters because the   
   mayor will be a major national player, willingly or not, in the runup to   
   the 2026 midterm election. Control of the U. S. House of Representatives   
   will ultimately determine the ongoing human cost of MAGA's culture of   
   cruelty and Trump's gangster capitalism. If Republicans retain control of   
   Congress, our democratic norms face further erosion.   
      
   For five decades, New Yorkers have observed Donald Trump, and the   
   conclusion is undeniable: The president of the United States is not worthy   
   of our trust nor respect. His prejudice dates to the start of his real   
   estate career in 1973, when Human Rights Division testers found Black   
   people who went to Trump buildings were told there were no apartments   
   available, while white people were offered units. The Trumps settled a U.   
   S. Justice Department lawsuit with a pledge to not discriminate.   
      
   In 1989, Trump placed notorious advertisements in the New York Times and   
   several other prominent newspapers calling for reinstatement of the death   
   penalty at a time when the public was consumed by the Central Park Five   
   case. In the September 2024 presidential debate, Trump again vilified the   
   five men, who years earlier were found to have been wrongly convicted of   
   attacking a jogger in the park.   
      
   Few contemporary national political leaders have such a consistent pattern   
   of deploying racist language and tropes. As president, Trump's hostility is   
   cut from the same cloth as Woodrow Wilson, president from 1913 to 1921, who   
   was an arch-racist in post-Civil War race relations in the United States.   
   Wilson presided over a period of lynching, Jim Crow segregation and the   
   systematic reversal of racial integration in the federal work force.   
      
   Trump's most repugnant gambit began in March, when he launched the great   
   historical whitewashing. In vivid distillation of his views, Trump whined   
   that the Smithsonian Institution focuses too much on "how bad slavery was"   
   and not enough on the "brightness" of America. His intent is to rewrite ––   
   if not all together erase –– the parts of American history that do not show   
   white Europeans and their descendants in the best light.   
      
   I can assure Trump that the immense suffering of the enslaved was, in fact,   
   quite bad, as were the evil tactics employed by white Americans in the   
   Woodrow Wilson era, while the country rallied for national unity as World   
   War I raged. That said, Trump's white grievance, racially tinged insults   
   and desire to downplay slavery is not the only concern.   
      
   The president greenlights his bigoted supporters, like Sen. Eric Schmitt   
   (R-Mo. ), to say the white supremacist's parts in public. In a speech this   
   month at the National Conservatism Conference, Schmitt waxed nostalgically   
   about America as a homogenous European utopia, with no mention of people of   
   color. "We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims   
   that poured out from Europe's shores to baptize a new world in their   
   ancient faith, " Schmitt said. These were the people he described as   
   lamenting the "memory of a country that once belonged to them. "   
      
   People of good conscience must take a stand against Trump and his minions   
   as they try to rewrite history and return us to a time when people of color   
   were second-class citizens.   
      
   David R. Jones, Esq. , is President and CEO of the Community Service   
   Society of New York (CSS), the leading voice on behalf of low-income New   
   Yorkers for more than 175 years. The views expressed in this column are   
   solely those of the writer. The Urban Agenda is available on CSS's website:   
   www. cssny. org.   
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