NEW YORK– In response to recent in attacks made by Donald Trump, Rev. Jesse Jackson said the birther movement is an attack on the legitimacy of the nation’s first African-American president, and it calls upon “ancient racial fears.”
“Any discussion of his birthplace is a code word,” said Jackson. “It calls upon ancient racial fears.”
“Trump has trumpeted this cause. For him to go down this low is a bit surprising,” Jackson said, making explicit what many black leaders have suggested. “He is now tapping into code-word fears that go far beyond a rational discourse.”
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