Jesse Jackson Says Birther Requests Have Racial Undertones
Jesse Jackson Says Donald Trump Birther Requests Are Racist
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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April 26, 2011
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Jackson: Trump birth talk is race “code”
Rev. Jesse Jackson told POLITICO today that the birther movement is part of a larger pattern of rollbacks against civil rights and and an attack on the legitimacy of the nation’s first African-American president — reserving special ire for developer Donald Trump and his renewed interest in the conspiracy theory
