Ibram Kendi: Americans Are Learning From Trump Denying His Own Racism | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Best-selling author and Boston University professor Ibram X. Kendi joins Morning Joe to discuss his new piece in The Atlantic, 'The End of Denial'. Aired on 08/05/2020.
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Ibram Kendi: Americans Are Learning From Trump Denying His Own Racism | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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  1. ‘No one has done more for Black Americans than any other president.’ THAT should be the joke of the week.

    1. @Jeremy Backup Brainwash Alert! Brainwash Alert! You are hereby notified to see your nearest Psychiatrist… We have observed that you are another sufferer of “Trump Derangement Syndrome”! We see this commonly from those who watch the Communist News Network & MSDNC…

  2. I loved how every time Trump said, “I don’t know…”, Ben asked, “Why not? You’re the president, you should know this.”
    He couldn’t use his 4th grade vocabulary to wiggle away unscathed.

    1. @Russell Dickson Hello this is the DMV, your personal license plates are here, “ME2DUM” is ready for you to pickup. Thanks!

    2. Where’s is basement Biden??
      DEBATES 2020 because the American people want to see Joe’s cognitive abilities!!

    1. Where was the Conservative Black voice in this discussion. Just nonsense about victimhood mentality, entitlement mindset, and “White Privilege”. Nothing about personal responsibility and accountability.

    2. @dlee t What about the Black Children being killed? The 430 victims of gang violence in Chicago? Failing public education in Democratic run cities for the last 50 years? Hint: they are not killed by police!

    3. @Vince Thomas That’s why he gives such lucid answers, all the while playing his air accordion. Not to mention his water tight strategy to deal with the spread of the corona virus and the tanking economy 😉 And of course his medical knowledge….

    4. @Janna Nijland so just end it all and tell me how Joe Biden is gonna do a better job. Please do that now for me and everyone else ok.

    1. YOU,know i am a TRUMP voter and i take issue with your racist remark.
      no you are the racist ,you and your marxist party are the haters.
      you are one sick hull,your hate smells.
      X dems for TRUMP.

    2. Where’s basement Biden??
      DEBATES 2020 because the American people want to see Joe’s cognitive abilities!!

    3. @Dennis I You mean the photoshopped pics Trump got caught doctoring today making it look like Biden hides in the basement? Look it up. Then watch one of the many hilarious videos of Trump flubbing his words left and right.

    1. @-JustNoah – creepy… like when trump said about ivanka, “if she wasn’t my daughter I’d be dating her.” Or about an 8 year old girl, “I’ll be dating her in ten years” when he was 50. Yeah “PROJECTION.” trumputin 2020!

    1. OH! THAT’S WHAT THE GUPPIE FINS ARE DOING GOING BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH!. PLAYING AN ACCORDION! WELL SAID!

    1. @Jen so you imply all media ..from ABC to QAnon are useless lying sacks of dung beetle filed feces ,whose managers should be tarred and feathered, than publicly berated by the common man , after their financial assets have been seized as punishment ,correct?…and that of course that includes social MEDIA since they permit false information to the masses…if so…..i agree

  3. You can’t expect a racist President to actually do anything about systematic racism. A racist sees only riots in the protests.

    1. @JayBe Faulky you’re such a follower you can’t use your own brain! You are panicking about going back and working to make someone else rich and ready to risk your own KIDS life and health….to go back and work….🤦🏾‍♂️. Those are your kids you had them but your so dependent on the system you would sacrifice them if it meant going back to work smh. This is why the US is dumb!!! Be a man and survive for your family. Grow your food if you have to make something happen. Sheesh.

    2. @aridan23 ok well doing it your way is not going to work. i can’t grow anywhere NEAR enough food in my little backyard let alone winter months. are you serious that’s your solution? talk about being a follower. you want me to be crushed don’t you?

    3. @JayBe Faulky bro…🤦🏾‍♂️that was an example of many other ways you can survive. Growing your food is not the only solution but could be one if need be. Anything to provide for your kids and family. You know that. You just want things to be easy. Well things are not about to be easy bud. Either way. So Id rather think of ways to keep my family close, healthy, and safe vs shoving them to a school with man killing “disease” in it!

    4. @aridan23 well that’s all very nice and true but all i am saying is at some point you just have to let people wear masks and work to make a living instead of relying on whatever the government decides it can afford. people need to survive. we are getting into the crunch period where many of us will lose our homes. i would rather take a risk with masks and social distancing to be able to work than NOT working but being safer in the lock-down and having my life shrink along with the economy.

    1. @Sinue Mondragon No one is as well informed and does not take BS like Chris Wallace. He is by far the best.

    2. Because Trump won’t give interviews to mainstream media because he says they’re fake news. Fake means he doesn’t like their statistically proven facts.

  4. The first rule of being a Republican cult moron is to be a compassionless hypocrite to their humanity and faith.

    1. The first rule about discussing ‘faith’ is to accept it’s all absolute bollocks and if you tolerate it, you’re enabling con men ‘believers’. Decent people should never normalise the con that is religion by using the euphemism, ‘faith’, when the whole concept is pure evil.

  5. Republicans: “Democracy is great…just so long as we can subvert it to gain power and maintain our minority fascist rule!”

    1. You mean just like the left is attempting right now. Gotcha. Go wipe your mouth liberal, you have a koolaid moustache.

  6. I’m not a racist…the subconscious doesn’t recognize the word “not” so when you say it your brain hears I’m a racist…just saying!

  7. When Someone has to Explain that ” Their not a Racist ” , for 4 or 5 Minutes , I think We Know the Answer . . . .

    1. Jeff Doyle So, then, where does systemic racism come from, genius? I’d wager the democrats since they are usually the majority of the people in charge, and they run the places where these riots are taking place.

    2. @DK x Mace I haven’t identified myself as a Democrat or a Republican. I will vote my conscience. This time it will be simple. I don’t have time for 4 more years of ineptitude and dishonesty. Now, I’m sorry, but I must leave you with that. A job, you know.

    1. Nor can democrats. When we look at the police Killings and shootings of unarmed Black people we see these are all in our most progressive in democrat controlled cities. We also see crises of systemic racism in our most progressive in democrat controlled cities. I think it is we who had the problem.

    2. You suggest there is systemic racism, and then continue to blame people not in charge of the places where they protest it. Democrats are in charge, Trump isn’t creating systemic racism, LOL.

    3. DK x Mace I am appalled that you think a very serious situation and often times a deadly situation is funny. You should be ashamed of yourself.
      We keep wanting to blame Trump or the Republicans , but we are shutting our eyes to reality. Let’s count the deaths of unarmed Black people in our cities. There’s the guy who was selling untaxed cigarettes in New York City, Ferguson (not a police officer and the victim was a Hispanic, but riots occurred nevertheless) Baltimore, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Louisville are all Democrat party controlled cities and very progressive cities. Then we also have the killing fields in predominantly minority areas. The southside of Chicago comes to mind, again we have New York City where black lives are murdered.
      Now we have the violent rioting occurring in our wonderful progressive cities like Portland, Seattle, Austin. If we look at these factors that were identified by Kenneth Stamp, In his book, A Peculiar Institution, Slavery in the antebellum South, he identified conditions that existed in the slave mines of South America, the Cain fields of the Caribbean and the slave plantations of the American South. The same conditions exist in the minority areas of our most progressive cities.
      As a Democrat I feel we must recognize the above and call for change. We should demand those in leadership position in these cities resign. I am calling for the resignation of the mayor and council in Minneapolis to resign for a long time because they are inept.
      These problems are our problems and trying to shuffle them off onto Trump there’s a losing proposition and will likely caused the deaths of innocent people to continue in our progressive cities. This is no cause to laugh.

  8. Everyone needs to interview Trump like Jonathan Swan did. Challenge him in real time with verified facts and ask him for receipts.

  9. Yes, the President sounds like a lot of “Americans”. He’s literally mirroring the mentality of people who have been able to shy away from these horrendous beliefs.

    1. Statistically, more white people are affected. Systemic racism? Who is the party in charge prior to Trump? Racism didn’t just suddenly get created because of Trump. Why is blm killing black people? You ignore facts.

    2. Why were 25 people shot in only a couple neighborhoods in Chicago last weekend? You want cops to calm down, calm the neighborhoods they patrol down.

      Since liberals are so smart, create a law that forces a black man to stay with the woman he impregnated to raise the child to be an upstanding adult. Nothing else is going to move the needle.

      Also, all the white people here that are so woke…what percentage of the neighborhood you chose to live in is black. Answer that for yourself then take your look in the mirror.

    3. Bacons Strip I like it when they say “systemic racism” then blame members of the republicans, who are not in control of most of these cities and states with people protesting.

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    5. @Bacons Strip While I don’t like the decisions many members of my own race have made, I don’t think we’re looking at that. We’re looking at police brutality. You’re saying, “Oh well they aren’t good people so they deserve it,” for the unjust murder of several blacks?

      You know what? Innocent white people also get murdered by police. We should ALSO change that so NOBODY ends up just as an already dead victim of brutality. I just wish that innocent blacks have fear so engraved into their bones. It should be that there are good and bad black people and the good people should live freely without fear of being lumped together with the rest.

  10. “That I don’t know but I don’t like it”. Doesn’t have a clue and doesn’t want one. He’s racist and to acknowledge it exists means admitting he’s racist. He’s been openly racist for years. “I’m the least racist person….” one of the number one things a racist says.

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