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Too lazy to pick his own cotton, and too cheap to pay someone else to do it.

They want us to come here and work for nothing, but when we have the audacity to show up on payday, they expect us to "go back where we belong". And of course, that only applies to those of us who aren't white.

Donald Trump's father was born in New York to German parents and was brought up in a German-speaking environment. His mother was born in Scotland. My father was born in Tampa, and my mother in New York City, both brought up in a Spanish-speaking environment by parents from the Old Country. Technically, (from a purely nativist and genealogical point of view) that makes me more American than the President of the United States.

Of course, the President is "white", and I'm not; not by physical appearance or ethnic accent, but by the fact my grandparents weren't from Northern Europe. To him, I am a "person of color" because my distant relatives can be traced to Spain, and his to Germany, two locations a few thousand miles away, a few hundred miles apart.

Of course he's racist. Most Americans are, even the majority with foreign roots, and especially the minority with Northern European roots.

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