Do Black Votes Matter to Donald Trump?
By David A. Graham (The Atlantic) – “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” So Donald Trump claimed back in 2011. But his bravado induces renewed skepticism this week. Last Wednesday, Trump announced that he’d hold a press conference on Monday to announce his endorsement by […]
How Sunday’s Celebrity Apprentice highlighted Donald Trump’s problems with women and race
By Eric Deggans (TampaBay.com) – Talk about awful timing: In a media moment where even straight-arrow political reporter Bob Schieffer is calling his statements about the president racist, reality TV star and possible presidential candidate Donald Trump presided over an episode of Celebrity Apprentice Sunday in which all three black women still on the show […]
Is U.S. Ready to Have Billionaire CEO as President?
Ted Santos (TBT News Service) – In 1992, Ross Perot ran for President of the US, earning 19% of the votes before dropping out and coming back. If he had won, would we have experienced this economic crisis? Or would he have used his business savvy to avert some of the financial challenges? Many people […]
Chuck D Challenges Rappers To Diss The Donald
Vibe.com – Chuck D, who has had his own criticism of President Obama, believes that when it comes to the blatant racism of demanding birth certificates and college transcripts from the first black President (Trump has said on several occasions that Obama was not qualified to attend Ivy League institution Harvard), rappers need to stand […]
Letterman, Bob Schieffer, Chris Matthews, Juan Williams call Trumps words racist Cher calls him “A–Hole” #dumptrump
Edrea Davis – Pompous, self-serving, Donald Trump is so stuck on himself and wound up in his own world he probably doesn’t realize that some negative media attention won’t help his brand. I have video from several high-profile people who reject Trump’s latest antics. I don’t know if Donald Trump is actually a racist since […]
Affirmative Action of a Different Kind
By Chuck Hobbs, Esq – Barely minutes after President Obama trumped Donald Trump on the idiotic “Birther” issue, Trump side-stepped his failure by asking to see President Obama’s undergraduate grades from Columbia and Harvard Law School. For Obama supporters, before getting too outraged please consider that such has been a fair area of inquiry before, […]
Trumped – Donald Trump Hijacked by his Own Ego
By Raynard Jackson – When Donald Trump began to make public overtures about his possible interest in running for president of the U.S., I thought he could be a substantive wild card in the race. I thought Trump could be a viable candidate because he does have a successful track record as a businessman. During […]
Trump Employing “Birther” Issue as a Weapon of Mass Distraction
By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal#17) – A recent CBS/New York Times poll found that 25 percent of Americans and 45 percent of registered Republican voters believe that President Obama was not born in the United States. Another 22 percent of Republican voters say they don’t know. For the record, President Obama was born […]