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Why Donald Trump Is A Racist

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“You’re a racist.” A term that people across the world don’t want to be deemed as. Racism in America has been rampant since the colonial era. From the 17th century to the present, basic human rights and privileges such as sexuality, education, immigration, voting rights, land acquisition, and criminal procedure have been exclusively given to White Americans but denied to Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans. Racial profiling, racial slurs, and heinous, violent acts towards a racial background have been notorious for creating a divide in the “United” States. In modern media, multi-millionaire businessman and now President of the United States, Donald Trump has been pinned a white supremacist and a racist. A racist is a person who shows evidence of placing hierarchical value between racial groups, has a history of derogatory speech towards a particular racial group and also inspires other acts of hatred. One thing that is misunderstood is that a popular figure in the media or politics can’t be racist. It could be argued that Donald Trump isn’t a racist because of his long history of philanthropy initiatives, awards, and recognitions however, this doesn’t erase his history of discrimination and prejudice. The Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded utterance of the word racism was by a man named Richard Henry Pratt in 1902. Pratt was critiquing the ideology against the indecencies of racial segregation. “Segregating any class

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