https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/12/26/jemele-hill-stands-by-calling-president-trump-white-supremacist-i-thought-i-was-saying-water-is-wet/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.de2673c95310
She was saying "water is wet" At least that's how black and brown folks heard it, maybe one-third of white folks too.
Trump has been clearly identified as a racist since at least the 1970s and 1980s when he was sued trying to stop the rental of his apartments to African Americans in New York. And since the 1990s when he, among other things, ranted and raved about wanting the Central Park Five dead -- for a crime it turns out they didn't commit-- he was clearly identified as a white supremacist.
And the start of his last presidential campaign should have sealed his identity as a white supremacist for anybody who was even halfway paying attention.
But when the racial demographic with 98% of the power has grandma, grandpa, mommy, daddy, uncle, and auntie saying a percentage of the same things daily and at the Thanksgiving dinner table, obvious racism is willfully ignored.
There was no excuse for anybody to not know Trump as a white supremacist before Charlottesville, much less afterward...And that goes double for Bernie Sanders and his bros, who did their level damn best to say it was white working class angst that made the majority of white folks vote for Donald Trump until study after study came out saying it was racism that was the deciding factor in Trump's election.
And I'm not likely to forget ESPN's response to Jemele Hill either, not until everybody involved has been fired.
Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2018
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racism-historyBLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM
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