In an amazing editorial, the full Editorial Board of the New York Times called it like it is: John Kelly is a racist. The full title is “John Kelly’s Racist History Lesson”
This has been Donald Trump’s only consistent theme since he began building a political base around birtherism. Mr. Trump’s course has been erratic in most respects, but one can draw a sharp, clean line from his lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States to his calculated attack from the White House on black National Football League players protesting injustice by kneeling during the national anthem. (“Get that son of a bitch off the field right now,” the president of the United States said at a political rally, giving advice to team owners.)
Mr. Kelly had a reputation as a man of honor. Only in the context of Mr. Trump’s toxic political strategy can one understand his attack on an African-American representative, Frederica Wilson, whom he accused of grandstanding — and his continued refusal to acknowledge the truth even after video evidence flatly contradicted him.
It is a sorry development that even Mr. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, a former leader of one of our nation’s most racially diverse institutions, is choosing to sacrifice his own reputation to abet the president’s race-baiting.
Without violating fair use, it is impossible to extract more than these 3 final paragraphs from the piece. Go read the full piece at the link.