Romney Tells Trump to Apologize for Causing ‘Racists to Rejoice’

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Romney Tells Trump to Apologize for Causing ‘Racists to Rejoice’
NY Times, Aug 18, 2017, MAGGIE HABERMAN

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, has excoriated President Trump for his equivocating response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and urged him to apologize or risk subjecting the country to “an unraveling of our national fabric.”

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Our allies around the world are stunned and our enemies celebrate; America’s ability to help secure a peaceful and prosperous world is diminished. And who would want to come to the aid of a country they perceive as racist if ever the need were to arise, as it did after 9/11?” Mr. Romney said. “In homes across the nation, children are asking their parents what this means. Jews, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims are as much a part of America as whites and Protestants. But today they wonder. Where might this lead? To bitterness and tears, or perhaps to anger and violence?”

Mr. Romney called for the president to apologize.


More: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-romney.html

[endicom]

This boy's starting to annoy me.

If he's prepping for another run then he's doing it all wrong.

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The only people rejoicing are regular Americans who want and will support a constitutional, color blind government – not one that's hyper racialized. Let society sort things out without government picking winners and losers among the various ethnicities. It's been six generations since the abolition of slavery and two generations since the civil rights act. Can we now get on with our lives, please.