Today, we welcome back two “founding fathers” of Pro vs. Con — Matt York and Anthony Watts. Our topic is “Were President Trump’s recent ‘go back’ comments racist?”
York takes the “Pro” position and Watts is “Con.”
PRO/Matt York
Our President believes that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of his race.
In 2015, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham called then candidate Donald Trump a “race-baiting, xenophobic bigot”. Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, a challenger to President Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination, last week called the president a “raging racist,” adding that if Republicans don’t denounce Trump in the upcoming election they will be known as the “party of racism.”
North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Walker said; “I do not want to support in any way, shape or fashion, a phrase that for decades has been represented to hurt people in the minority communities,”. The racist chant that resounded through Donald Trump’s political rally was like a “dagger that went through my heart,” “As a former minister we have worked years in the inner cities,” Walker added. “The minority communities that value or put a little bit of trust and value in what we’re trying to do in Washington, I immediately thought of those folks.”
A Fox News poll also asked respondents directly whether they thought the “go back” tweets were racist. Most said they were, including half of white respondents. Republicans and Trump voters generally said they weren’t — though even about a fifth of those who supported him in 2016 said the tweets were racist.
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To include comments like, “Go back to where you came from, ” whether made by supervisors or by co-workers.
The news cycle covering this topic and this entire debate is helping Make America Racist Again. It is rolling back progress in race relations which was steadily improving for decades. Trump’s comments may cause people of color to doubt the sincerity of white people. Trump’s Tweets were reckless.
CON/Anthony Watts
Racist? No. A brilliant political move? Absolutely. The Democrats are obsessed with the words written in the tweet; was he racist, heartless, mean, insulting, etc. ? Even though he didn’t say one thing about race, color, or even name anyone, four people stood up and self-identified. Not only did these fools stand up, but they also held a dramatic and angry press conference to complain about the tweet that was carried by networks and all over social media. That was a big win for the President, because he didn’t have to lift a finger to get them to show themselves.
But something else happened too. What that tweet did was to cause 2020 presidential candidates and almost every other Democrat to stand up and defend these four self-identified women who by their own words, clearly hate the USA and what it stands for.
Looking at their public statements, it is easy to see that these four women support socialism, open borders, abortion on demand, retracting the Second Amendment, new laws against so-called “hate speech,” free medical care for those here illegally, cancellation of student debts, free college for everyone, and Medicare for all at a $40 trillion dollar cost. In their mind, “free” equals “taxpayer funded.”
These four, “The Squad” as they’ve come to be known, have terrible public approval ratings, and as far as I know, zero accomplishments as elected officials. They seem too busy shouting to get anything meaningful done.
With that one Tweet, the president gave them opportunity to become the face and the heart of the Democrat party today. They all took the bait. It’s an epic win for President Trump, one he will use in the 2020 election. Online, the term for such a thing is “pwned” (leet-speak for owned), and own them he did.
Even CNN’s Jake Tapper said that Democratic Party sources admit Trump’s political move was brilliant, making “The Squad” their party’s de facto leaders.
And what about Trump’s statement saying, “Go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”?
Founding father and Sixth President John Quincy Adams said it best in 1819 “… if they cannot accommodate themselves to the character, moral, political, and physical, of this country, with all its compensating balances of good and evil, the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers.”
