Confederates For Trump Fear White Ethnic Cleansing

A commemorative event hosted by advocates for the Confederate flag and the Confederate narrative of American history turned into a rally for Donald Trump on the day of the Republican primary in South Carolina.

Prior to the event, Pastor Michael Reed placed Donald Trump yard signs in the ground outside the South Carolina capitol building in Columbia. And, during a program of speeches from the capitol steps, William Carter, editor and publisher of The Conservative Action Report, announced his paper's endorsement for Mr. Trump.

The event took place on Feb. 20, 2016 as Republican voters were going to the polls the choose a presidential nominee. It was also the first Saturday following the 151st anniversary of the burning of Columbia, many say, at the hands of General William T. Sherman's Union army.

The grievances of Trump voters at this event mirrored the concerns expressed by Trump voters in Northern states, focusing on things like "political correctness," terrorism, and immigration. However, we found a deeper sense of white racial anxiety here, expressed with stronger language than what we'd heard in New Hampshire, Iowa, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Whereas northern Trump supporters feel that the unfair treatment of white Americans can best be summed up with the term "political correctness," this group preferred the term "ethnic cleansing," perhaps because of the bitter fight last summer that led to the removal of the Confederate flag from South Carolina's state capitol grounds. A state senator named Rev. Clementa Pinckney had been the target of a white supremacist terrorist who gunned down the senator, and 8 of his parishioners during Bible Study at the Mother Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston. When it was learned that white supremacy had motivated the killer, and that he saw the Confederate flag as a symbol of his hatred, Sen. Pinckney's colleagues in the Senate authored legislation to remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

So perhaps all Trump supporters aren't racist idiots, but it sure seems all racist idiots are Trump supporters.
notarobotsays...

And that's why we're building a wall...


bobknight33jokingly says...

You side has some stupid people too.
Most of this people seen to be fairly simple folks.

Should there be an IQ test to vote?
Should there be an age threshold?
Those 2 should eliminate most politically unknowledgeable folks.

iauisaid:

Hehey, it's a bobknight conference. You're a bobknight, and you're a bobknight, everybody's a bobknight!

kingmobsays...

How does 'take down that old flag that represents a painful time in history' equal 'ethnic cleansing'?

I really would love to understand the logic.

rancorsays...

That's why logic is not involved!

kingmobsaid:

How does 'take down that old flag that represents a painful time in history' equal 'ethnic cleansing'?

I really would love to understand the logic.

kingmobsays...

There is logic involved...but it may be based on false facts....or ignoring specific facts.

Whatever they aren't sifters and going to respond to my query.

rancorsaid:

That's why logic is not involved!

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