DEMS/MINORITIES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s series of attacks this week against four Democratic women – all minorities – has stirred outrage but it’s far from the first time he has stoked racial tensions. Trump has created controversy for years with incendiary rhetoric that is often directed at people of color – from his branding of the Central Park Five as ‘muggers and murderers’ to his peddling of the false ‘birther’ conspiracy against then-President Barack Obama to his denigrating of a former African-American aide as a ‘dog.’ Here are a dozen times when Trump has fueled racial tensions: ‘The Squad’ Trump’s attacks against four liberal Democratic congresswomen – all women of color – started Sunday with a series of tweets in which he suggested they should ‘go back’ to their country of origin. The remarks were met with a barrage of criticism, but Trump refused to back down, saying they ‘hate our country’ and that ‘if they don’t like it, let them leave.’ Three of the congresswomen – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. – were born in the United States.”
–Michael Collins and Christal Hayes, “From the ‘Central Park Five’ to ‘the squad’: A dozen times Donald Trump has stoked racial tensions,” USA Today, July 18, 2019 3:34 pm