Reading News 4U: Trump not racist 'in the traditional sense,' says MLK's nephew at White House
Friday, January 12, 2018
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| President Trump prior to signing a proclamation in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as Isaac Newton Farris Jr., King’s nephew, looks on. (Photo: Rex/Shutterstock) |
VietPress USA (Jan. 12, 2018): According to the
Washington Post, Yesterday at a meeting with lawmakers on Thursday in the Oval
Office when they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and
African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to
several people briefed on the meeting.
“Why are we having all
these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these
people, referring to countries mentioned by the lawmakers.
Trump then suggested
that the United States should instead bring more people from countries such as
Norway, whose prime minister he met with Wednesday. The president, according to
a White House official, also suggested he would be open to more immigrants from
Asian countries because he felt that they help the United States economically.
People blame Trump
"Racist". Today Trump joins the Martin Luther King Jr. Day at
the White House. He invited Isaac Newton Farris Jr. as the nephew of Martin
Luther King Jr. to meet him in the Oval Room. After the meeting, Farris told to
CNN that “I personally don’t think that President Trump is a racist in
traditional sense...” '' and that “I think that President Trump is racially
uninformed or racially ignorant.”
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Trump not racist 'in the traditional sense,' says MLK's nephew at White House
After appearing alongside President Trump at a White House event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday, the nephew of the late civil rights icon said he does not believe the commander in chief — who reportedly made disparaging remarks about Africans the day before — is a racist “in the traditional sense.”
“I personally don’t think that President Trump is a racist in traditional sense,” Isaac Newton Farris Jr. told CNN. “I think that President Trump is racially uninformed or racially ignorant.”
Farris Jr., who serves as president and CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, said he met privately in the Oval Office with Trump and Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the sole African-American member of Trump’s Cabinet. According to Farris Jr., Trump assured them that “I am not the person that the media is making me out to be.”
The comments come amid international outage over a Washington Post report that Trump referred to people from Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as coming from “shithole countries” country during an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers about U.S. immigration policy on Thursday.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to the newspaper, which cited “several people briefed on the meeting.”
According to the Post, Trump then suggested that the U.S. “should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway.”
Trump disputed the Post’s account, tweeting that he “never said anything derogatory about Haitians.” The president also insisted that while he used “tough” language during the meeting, he did not make the “shithole” remark as reported.
Among the senators who attended the meeting, two of them, Republicans Tom Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of Georgia, said they “don’t recall” Trump’s reported remarks “specifically.” Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., supported the gist of the Post’s story.
In a statement, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that “the president’s expressed desire to see more immigrants from countries like Norway must be called out for what it is: an effort to set this country back generations by promoting a homogeneous, white society.”
Before signing the proclamation, Trump praised the slain civil rights leader for “standing up for the self-evident truth Americans hold so dear, that no matter what the color of our skin or the place of our birth, we are all created equal.”
As he left the room, Trump ignored a number of shouted questions from reporters. Among them: “Mr. President, are you a racist?”
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