Trump Not Racist Or Against Black People

Stephen A. Smith speaks on stage throughout the Semafor Media Summit on April 10, 2023, in New York Metropolis. | Supply: Michael Loccisano / Getty

Sports Journalist Stephen A. Smith actually isn’t any Jason Whitlock, however he’s no Shannon Sharpe both. (Which is to say, he isn’t fairly Uncle Ruckus, however he additionally falls method wanting Huey Freeman.) Smith continuously exhibits us that he’s at the least checking sunken place Zillow adverts for his subsequent house, however I wouldn’t go as far as to name him a full-blown Get Out sufferer. He catches side-eye for going additional out of his method than any Black particular person ought to go to defend Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones from suspicion of racism after a Jim Crow-era picture surfaced that appeared to indicate him amongst a mob of white teenagers making an attempt to dam Black college students from integrating his highschool. He additionally referred to as NBA gamers “silly” for threatening to boycott the league in protest of racial oppression. He’s additionally blown a half-sunken gasket attacking Colin Kaepernick for typically the identical cause. (OK, so possibly he’s at the least Food plan Whitlock.)

So, it isn’t terribly shocking that he’s out right here becoming a member of Black conservative Trump-stumpers throughout America in being the Black voice to assert ex-President Donald Trump isn’t racist.

Throughout a sit down at a Semafor Media Summit on Monday, Smith stated he used to get pleasure from speaking to Trump about sports activities earlier than he ran for president, however that he doesn’t mess with Trump anymore and he actually wouldn’t vote for him.

“I feel he’s modified, however I’ll let you know this: I feel when individuals name him racist and stuff like that, I’ve by no means considered Trump that method,” Smith stated. “He’s not in opposition to black individuals, he’s in opposition to all issues not named Trump.”

Nah, bruh—you don’t have to be out right here making a “he’s not racist, he hates everyone” argument on behalf of the MAGA cult chief who couldn’t disguise his bigotry to save lots of his life (or at the least his bid for a second time period as president).

Two issues may be true directly: Trump assaults anybody who stands in opposition to him, and Trump is racist.

Trump was racist when he led the clearly racist “birther” motion in opposition to former President Barack Obama. He was racist when he referred to as for the executions of the Central Park 5 and doubled down on it even after they have been exonerated. Donald Trump was being racist when he referred to African nations as “sh*thole nations” and when he informed Black and brown congresswoman who have been born and/or raised within the U.S. to return the place they got here from. He was being a racist bigot when he generalized Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals, and when he made his quite a few makes an attempt at rebranding COVID-19 because the “China virus.” He was being racist when he ignited that white fragility and propaganda-infused conflict in opposition to crucial race concept and Black Lives Matter. Trump is so racist he has dinner dates with oud and proud white nationalist Nick Fuentes and ex-KKK grand wizard David Duke accused him of jacking his white supremacist fashion.

The actual fact is, there’s a virtually bottomless open bar filled with examples of Trump’s racism. Hell, Trump can’t even provide you with a single instance of expressed racism coming from the Black prosecutors who launched legal investigations into him. It’s nearly as if he have been calling them racist for no different cause than as a result of they’re Black. Bun, nah, that couldn’t be the case as a result of that will be, properly—you recognize.

It’s additionally value mentioning that whereas Smith says he received’t vote for Trump, it’s not due to his racism or his politics—it’s as a result of Trump is simply too controversial for the presidency.

From Semafor:

Smith stated that he’s has conservative views and that he’s not “past voting Republican” however that, “I’m past voting for Trump.”

He stated that it was not due to Trump’s politics however as a result of the presidency required “statesmanship” and that the president needed to be somebody who needs to impress the nation, not divide it.

Who is aware of why half-sunken Black people like Smith and Van Jones really feel this incessant must randomly throw a cape on for Trump, who wouldn’t use a bottle of Trump water to place out a burning cross on their lawns? Trump is a racist bigot, a misogynist, a perpetual liar and fairly presumably a legal. None of that adjustments as a result of he and Smith used to speak about sports activities, and Smith is perhaps stunned to be taught that racists usually make an effort to veil their racism whereas within the presence of Black individuals, or as Trump calls us: “My African American over right here.”