Racism in United States politics

This article discusses topics and events in United States politics that deal with racism or are considered racist.

Incidents

  • On November 22, 2015 presidential candidate Donald Trump personally retweeted[9] an image with inaccurate racially charged crime data between blacks and whites. The first use of the image appeared to be from a neo-Nazi Twitter user.[10] When asked about the image in an interview with Bill O'Reilly, Trump claimed that the picture came from very credible sources.[9]

See also

References

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  9. 1 2 Feldman, Josh. "O'Reilly Grills Trump on 'Totally Wrong' Tweet; Trump: 'Am I Gonna Check Every Statistic?'". Retrieved April 16, 2016.
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