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Right, nobody said that before 2015, sure. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-racist-meme/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-racist-mem
by mikeash 7y ago
Right, nobody said that before 2015, sure. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-racist-meme/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-racist-meme/
His full page ads calling for the execution of the exonerated Central Park Five ran thirty years ago!
- jki275 7y agoI don’t think the Central Park 5 were exonerated 35 years ago. I’m glad they have been exonerated now, and certainly they shouldn’t have been convicted then - but there was nothing racist in Trump’s ad calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty. Many people believe in it (full disclosure- I’m not one of them), and at least of those I know none of them believe in it for racist reasons.
- mikeash 7y agoThat’s true, they were exonerated in 2002. Trump then withdrew his advocacy for their execution in... well, I can’t answer that without crystal ball.
- jki275 7y agoWell clearly they wouldn’t be eligible for the death penalty anymore, I don’t think anyone believes that. That’s a bit of an absurd comment to make.