Why is al sharpton so racist

In the latest rhetorical shot at lawmakers of color, Trump said his weekend comments referring to Rep. After a weekend of attacks on Cummings, the son of former sharecroppers who rose to become the powerful chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Trump expanded his attacks Monday to include a prominent Cummings defender, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who was traveling to Baltimore to hold a press conference in condemnation of the president.

Two weeks ago, Trump caused a nationwide uproar with racist tweets directed at four Democratic congresswomen of color as he looked to stoke racial divisions for political gain heading into the election. He said Trump swung hard at Cummings and his Baltimore district because he believes such Capitol Hill critics are neglecting serious problems back home in their zeal to unfairly undermine his presidency.

The president has tried to put racial polarization at the center of his appeal to his base of voters, tapping into anxieties about demographic and cultural changes in the nation in the belief that the divided country he leads will simply choose sides over issues such as race.

He volunteered that if Rep. President, I go home to my district daily. We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

That means their forefathers was crooks. Despite such racism, President Barack Obama has made Sharpton his go-to guy on matters of race. But not to worry. Obama himself spent 20 years listening to the Rev. It goes like this: First, Trump levels a racist attack. Then, backed by conservative media and his lackeys in Congress, he claims that the attack was not racist. Finally, he says the people of color he was attacking are the real racists. Trump skipped straight Step 3 with Sharpton, but efforts to counter the backlash that followed his offensives against congresswomen of color and, over the weekend, Rep.

Cummings, were nearly identical. When Trump tweeted earlier this month that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N. Once this ham-fisted narrative had been awkwardly jammed into the news cycle, Trump called the congresswomen racist. Cummings — which, like his attacks against the congresswomen, were fired off in a fit of rage as he was watching Fox News programming — played out the same way. Republicans cried that there was nothing racist about tweets, and that Trump was only speaking the truth about conditions in the district of his most prominent African-American critic in Congress.

It is up to us to make the plea for transparency and demand that these videotapes be released," Crump said. View the discussion thread. Skip to main content. Don't miss a brief. Sign up for our daily email.