Now, on to this most recent faux outrage over Trump's language. Let's say he actually used the word he did in describing some of the countries around the world. Just how was he incorrect in saying this? How was it racist? If calling a white man who lives in filth "white trash" is OK, why is it not OK to call out a black man who lives in filth? Aren't we treating them equally by doing so?
How are countries such as Somalia, Syria, Haiti, multiple western African nations, etc... working to improve their own lot? I grew up pretty poor. We, a family of four, lived in a 16' camp trailer for years. After that we graduated to an 8'x35' trailer. We parked it in town during the school year and pulled it into the mountains during the summers. I never lived in a house until I was in the 8th grade. So, I know what it's like to be poor. I know it well. But, being poor is no excuse to be dirty. Our trailers were always neat and clean. My mother was a spic-and-span houskeeper. We always owned used vehicles too, but they were clean inside and out, and kept up mechanically. The first new car we ever bought was in 1965, and it was the most basic Chevy you could buy. Rubber mats on the floor, the cheapest 6 cylinder engine available, a 3 speed on the column, 4 door sedan. It was a model year end closeout as it was purchased in 1965, but it was a 1964 model. It was pure basic transportation. It was also the only new car my parents ever bought.
However, in spite of all our poverty my parents always taught, sometimes at the end of a switch if I didn't do my part in keeping things clean, that poverty was no excuse for filth and being dirty. It still isn't. Look at a nation like Somalia. What does their skin color have to do with them living in filth, killing each other, robbing their neighbors, running in gangs so they can take with impunity the things a person who has no arms to defend themselves owns? That has nothing to do with skin color. Anyone who says it does is a flat out racist. Who on this forum would want to live there or in the US if they had the choice? How about Haiti? Who would rather live there where the people running the government have impoverished their own people for many decades? Who here would think it's a good place to live when large portions of it are filthy? Again, what does skin color have to do with these choices? Not a thing. Anyone who says it does is a racist.
So what do the Democrats and media claim? That because Trump supposedly said countries like these are ****hole places to live he's a racist. Hogwash. He simply spoke the truth about them. He said nothing about the color of skin of the people who live there. He simply pointed out the conditions which the governments and citizens of those nations have created for themselves. They are responsible for their own behavior, and don't tell me that because their skin color differs from mine that they aren't capable of living differently. If you do I will call you racist to your face. I've worked with Blacks and Mexicans, gone to school with Blacks and Asians, played a lot of basketball with American Indians, dealt with a lot of Chinese business owners, and I have yet to find a member of the so-called minorities who has not been smart enough to succeed on their own hook. In fact, many of them did. I say anyone who claims that any minority cannot make it on their own is a racist. They are saying that whoever that minority is cannot overcome difficulties, think for themselves, and compete hard enough to win at anything they choose to do. That is racism pure and simple.
