𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗖𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗬 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗬'𝗦 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗦𝗠 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬 𝗧𝗪𝗜𝗖𝗘

David Duke, Donald Trump

While our country has had obvious racists run for president before, like the KKK's David Duke and former Alabama Governor George Wallace, who covered their racism, sometimes pretending to be a "friend of the Negro," former Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus and former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox hid little.

Faubus stood in the doorway of Little Rock High School trying to block the entrance of the "Little Rock Nine," the first Black students to attend.

Maddox pointed a gun at three black students trying to enter a school in Georgia.

One of many Black applicants refused occupancy at Trump apartments (NBC News)

Donald Trump's racism has been more overt, blatant, obvious, not just he and his father refusing to rent New York City apartments to Blacks in the 80's, but, more recently, his claim that Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S., willfully ignoring the obvious fact of his birth in Hawaii and constantly repeating Obama's Arabic middle name, Hussein, implying he's Muslim.

Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus

Who, but a racist, would announce his candidacy for the presidency by saying that Mexican Nationals are "rapists" and "criminals," although "some are good people," but that's exactly what Trump said in 2015 while gliding down the golden escalator in Trump Tower.

Former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox Threatens Black Student at Gunpoint

More recently, during this past campaign, Trump openly appealed to racism by repeatedly claiming that Haitian legal residents of Springfield, Ohio were "eating" the local's "cats and dogs," ignoring that area's elected leaders who said the story was untrue.

"Well, maybe they were eating their geese," Trump responded, covering up one lie with another. 

Trump's obvious racism was also on full display during Trump's first term as U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico dealt with a devastating hurricane.  

Trump cavalierly tossed paper towels out at a briefing on the storm, openly disputed the hurricane's death toll as reported by the mayor of San Juan, also blocked FEMA aid for the island for months and months, then added insult to injury by ignorantly proposing the U.S. trade the beautiful island of Puerto Rico for Greenland.

Such conduct made it obvious that Trump is an ignorant asshole, unfit for the office, racist to the core.

At Charlottesville, a white supremacist group marched carrying torches, shouting "Jews will not replace us," "blood and soil" and "Russia is our friend." 

While the country looked for their president to courageously denounce the obvious racism, Trump feebly said that "there are good people on both sides," unwilling to insult his racist base.

Certainly, presidential candidate Kamala Harris faced racism on several levels, given incredibly closer scrutiny than Trump, who could say absolutely stupid shit daily at his rallies and get a pass.  

"She needs to show us who she is, let us get to know her" pundits kept repeating like a mantra.

Then, when Harris spoke out like the well-educated, confident person she is, some found her "uppity" and/or "pretentious," even "condescending." 

Unfortunately, racism is alive and well in this country and Trump has smartly played into it like the con artist he is.

In a recent interview, Joan Baez, who walked with Dr. King at the March on Washington in 1963, said she knew, even back then, that America's racism would not be overcome in her lifetime.

Unfortunately, she was right.