Here’s the kind of support Donald Trump is not only attracting but having serve as a county campaign chair in one of the most important battleground states. Kathy Miller is Trump’s campaign chair in Mahoning County, Ohio, and she has some fascinating views on race and racism:
Miller added: “I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected. We never had problems like this ... Now, with the people with the guns, and shooting up neighborhoods, and not being responsible citizens, that’s a big change, and I think that’s the philosophy that Obama has perpetuated on America.”
“I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected.” This is a woman who went to high school in the 1960s. Segregation? The Civil Rights movement? “I never experienced it. I never saw that as anything.” Peaceful marchers were having their heads bashed in, Bull Connor was turning fire hoses and attack dogs on children, but this woman “never saw that as anything” and believes racism originated with the election of a black man as president.
Selma was in 1965. Here in 2016, Kathy Miller believes that “If you’re black and you haven’t been successful in the last 50 years, it’s your own fault. You’ve had every opportunity, it was given to you.” Fifty-one years ago, black people were being beaten and killed as they fought for the right to vote. But apparently a year later, black people started being given every opportunity. Redlining was common practice for decades, giving way to subprime mortgages. Schools never stopped being at least somewhat segregated. A study published in 2003—2003!—found that black job applicants with no criminal records were less likely to be called back than white applicants with felony convictions. The criminal justice system … well. But ignore all that! Black people were being given every opportunity. If they didn’t succeed it was their own fault. And by the way, Donald Trump should be president.
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