Today, Donald Trump continues to claim ignorance with regard to the harm caused by white supremacy movements. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides,” he said. “On many sides.” He failed to mention the hate groups responsible for the rally (which was initially spurred in response to the removal of Confederate statues) or to explicitly denounce their message of racism.
His comment on there being “many sides” that needed condemning, suggests that people other than the hate groups were somehow at fault in all of this. “‘Many sides’ suggests that there is no right side or wrong side, that all are morally equal,” Senator Kamala Harris wrote in a Facebook post. “But I reject that. It’s not hard to spot the wrong side here. They’re the ones with the torches and the swastikas.” This is actually not the first time that the Trump name has been in the news in connection with a white supremacist...CONTINUE READING
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