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UGLY ALL OVER: Today's news was dominated by remarks made by the President of the United States on Thursday.

When the present day news is how you teach history to your kids in a large way, there's really no avoiding it. So we had to take it head on.

Forgive the president's language, but he dismissed an entire continent, along with some other economically disadvantaged nations, as being "shithole countries." This has been corroborated by several sources. 

It's not a term I thought we'd ever hear reported (over and over and over) again on national news, attributed to a U.S. president, but there it was. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, all of them. Using those words - his words. 

CNN's Anderson Cooper, who has strong, personal ties, to Haiti, had this to say about that. 


And then there was Don Lemon, on CNN. He opened with this on his broadcast Thursday night:
 ‘This is CNN Tonight. I’m Don Lemon. The president of the United States is racist.’

Then, Lemon blasted those who’ve attacked the president’s critics for pointing out his racist comments, asked, “You know what you can go do?” But rather than go low, he went high. 

"I can’t say that,” Lemon said. “But you can go read a book, a history book. Because you might learn that some of the people from those 'shithole' countries were slaves who were brought here by force to help build this country, and then start your learning process from there.” 

Lemon also called on people who are still Trump supporters to do some self-examination. “What does it say about you that no matter what ― no matter what ― you continue to make excuses for this man, for his vile behavior?” he asked. 

Excellent question. 

It's common to dismiss journalists as biased, these days, so set those two aside and let's turn to United States," spokesperson Rupert Coleville. Today, he said Donald Trump's reported remarks branding Haiti, El Salvador and unspecified African nations as "s***hole countries"  ... "are shocking and shameful comments from the President of the United States. ... There is no other word you can use but 'racist'."

It's not like yesterday's comment was an isolated incident. Newsweek has an abbreviated list of things Trump is on full record as having said during his campaign and as president.
http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-full-list-racist-comments-about-immigrants-muslims-and-others-779061

Gems include that Haitians "all have AIDS," and that Nigerians wouldn't ever "go back in their huts" after seeing America. 


It's 'easier' to say nothing, and to pretend all is OK.

But it's not. It's very NOT OK.

To be silent is to be complicit. 

It's NOT OK.