Donald Trump
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Trump Disses Cory Booker on Twitter; Booker Responds With Love
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker isn’t at all disturbed by Donald Trump’s attack on him after Booker’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. In fact, Booker has taken to responding to Trump with love, CNN notes. “I love Donald Trump,” Booker said Tuesday on CNN’s New Day. “I don’t want to answer his hate…
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Donald Trump's Nomination Acceptance Speech Scared The Shit Out My Wife
About an hour after Donald Trump ended his speech Thursday night, I looked over at my wife. The look of disbelief was still on her face. It was a look I had not seen since the jury declared George Zimmerman not guilty a few years ago. Asking the obvious question, she gave me a response I will likely…
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Black Folks Seem to Be OK With Clinton’s VP Pick, But Sanders’ Peeps Not Pleased With Email Leak
Hillary Clinton announced her vice presidential pick Friday, and though many didn’t seem to know much about Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, most black folks seem OK with her choice. Bernie Sanders’ supporters, however, are fuming over a hacker breach of the Democratic National Convention server, which threatens to disturb the tenuous peace between them…
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Black Lives Matter Responds to Trump’s Acceptance Speech at RNC
Black Lives Matter is blasting Donald Trump’s acceptance speech as Republican presidential nominee, calling it the “most negative acceptance speech in recorded history” and calling Trump himself a “disgrace.” “The terrifying vision that Donald J. Trump is putting forward casts him alongside some of the worst fascists in history,” Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza said…
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Keep America Safe Again: A Black Person’s Guide to Safety, Space and Activism at the RNC
“Be safe.” “Stay safe, brother.” “Be safe, praying for you.” These are the paraphrases of just about every text, Facebook post and social media DM I’ve received since spreading the word that I was headed to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. The absolute palpable fear on the part of black people I…
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In ’Murica News: RNC’s 5 Worst Moments So Far
On Tuesday, Donald Trump—once known for his famous catchphrase “You’re fired!”—has officially been crowned the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential race. Considering the “Make America great again” rhetoric that emanated across this country, this came as no surprise (despite the most clear discord since the 1970s). What has also come as no surprise is…
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My Little Pony: The Trump Campaign Is Magic … and Lazy
Donald Trump’s run for president might be the most bootleg, shoestring, lazy effort by any candidate in the history of the presidency. Maybe it’s because of the racist, xenophobic stink that permeates everything he touches and, in turn, pushes any self-respecting Republican far away from his candidacy. At this point, he might as well be…