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What exactly are ‘Black jobs’ anyway? Tell us, Mr. Trump | Letters

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What exactly are ‘Black jobs’ anyway? Tell us, Mr. Trump | Letters

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 |  Cincinnati Enquirer

It was bound to happen: a recent letter writer blamed Democrats for maintaining racism for political purposes. However, there has been dog whistle racism in the Republican Party for decades. Ronald Reagan started his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Ku Klux Klan members murdered three young men volunteering to register voters during Freedom Summer.

Too long ago to count? OK. Then listen to Donald Trump. There was a bipartisan bill for significant immigration reform which private citizen Trump destroyed, demanding that he wanted to run on immigration. The GOP obeyed and killed the bill. Then, during the debate, Trump declared that immigrants were taking “Black jobs.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist; Katanji Brown Jackson, United States Supreme Court Justice; Cory Booker, U.S. Senator; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; and Kevin Aldridge, Opinion and Engagement Editor Cincinnati Enquirer. Are these the “Black jobs” Trump is referring to? Just asking.

There is no such thing as “Black jobs,” unless the former president is living in a fantasy time warp. More likely, he is pandering for a few votes with an unhealthy dose of racism and, in the process, insults the intelligence of American voters from all party backgrounds.

Nancy Rowles, Covington

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