Right church, wrong pew

[Hawkmoon]

So none other than Jesse (is he still around?) Jackson thinks Obama should pardon Hillary Clinton

http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/16/jesse-jackson-obama-pardon-hillary-clinton/93979554/

Students "are growing up in an America that is in an identity crisis," Jackson said. "These demonstrations are born out of fear. Fear that the Klan will ride again. Fear that violence (against minorities) is coming back.

Wait ... violence against minorities? :cough: Ferguson :cough, cough:

Now it's up to Trump to take action, Jackson added.

"The one who set the field afire must be the one to put it out," he told the Free Press in a one-on-one interview. "He had the option to pour water on it (the dry field) and let it grow. He didn't do that — he chose to light it on fire. One of my concerns is that we see the division in America now because of that. We see classmates, roommates in a conflict over the way the campaign turned out.

The one who lit the fire was Barack Obama, not Donald Trump. Starting with Professor Gates. Wake up, Jesse.

"He knows Mexicans didn't take jobs from us. It was the corporations. He knows you can't deport 15 million (immigrants). It's not just about the adults, but also about the children who were born here, grew up here and go to school here."

I must be blind. I thought I saw Hispanics working at the local McDonalds, where my friend's kids who grew up in the town couldn't get a job but people who speak only Spanish come to work by train from twenty miles away. Those weren't people, they were corporations? And why can't we deport 15 million [illegal] people? Everyone needs a reminder that actions have consequences. If the [illegal] parents didn't want their children to face possible deportation, they shouldn't have broken the law and snuck into the United States to steal jobs ["that Americans don't want to do"] from American citizens.

[Ron]

Longish read on Trump and racism.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/

[wmenorr67]

How soon he forgets that the Black Panthers are crawling again also.

[Perd Hapley]

Jesse Jackson hates it when people stoke racial resentment. He doesn't need the competition.

As someone who's not plugged into cable news, or the Twitter-verse, it seems to me that the people making Trump's campaign/presidency into The Bigotry Campaign are Leftists like Jackson. (Well, mainly, it's Lefties that aren't 80-million years old, and long past relevance, but you know what I mean.) But like I said, I haven't really been keeping up with all of Trump's speeches and tweets. Maybe I'm wrong.

Not that I'm saying Trump hasn't made some insensitive, or even racist comments, but it seems as though the left wants  that to be the whole focus of his campaign. The Democratic Party always seems to fall back on race-baiting. It does usually work for them.