He directly calls out the Republican Party for ignoring undocumented works because it was in the best interest for their supporters to have cheap labor and the Democratic Party ignore it because they needed the votes. I am not sure if Trump is aware that undocumented immigrants tend to not go out to the ballot every two to four years. In this book Trump seemed to be more concerned with insulting and berating Latino immigrants than actually making a valid argument. He writes, “According to a Government Accountability Office 2011 report, America’s prisons house 351,000 criminal aliens who committed a crime after having already broken the law by entering America illegally.” He does this in an attempt to frighten the reader into thinking all undocumented people are 1) Latino and 2) Criminals. An opinion that has not changed according to comments he has made just this year regard immigration. He goes
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His whole campaign is built around the idea that America is no longer great. When Trumps states, “let’s make America great again”, he is referring to a period in America when being white gave you middle class status. Trump has promoted the systemic racism within our society, at some points he has done it indirectly, but for the most part he has been very deliberate and straightforward with his racist rhetoric. What is systemic racism? It can be defined as the conscious or unconscious discrimination directed at minority groups; because it is often unconscious it is hard to see, but never the less it is very much so prevalent in our society. Systemic racism includes the complex array of anti-black [anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, etc.] practices, the unjustly gained political-economic power of whites, the continuing economic and other resources inequalities along racial lines, and the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and
His whole campaign is built around the idea that America is no longer great. When Trumps states, “let’s make America great again”, he is referring to a period in America when being white gave you middle class status. Trump has promoted the systemic racism within our society, at some points he has done it indirectly, but for the most part he has been very deliberate and straightforward with his racist rhetoric. What is systemic racism? It can be defined as the conscious or unconscious discrimination directed at minority groups; because it is often unconscious it is hard to see, but never the less it is very much so prevalent in our society. Systemic racism includes the complex array of anti-black [anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, etc.] practices, the unjustly gained political-economic power of whites, the continuing economic and other resources inequalities along racial lines, and the white racist ideologies and attitudes created to maintain and rationalize white privilege and