List of supposed racist utterances in United States politics

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

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Incidents

Slavery

Jim Crow era

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Racist Democratic Political Poster, 1869
"Of Course He Wants To Vote The Democratic Ticket" by A. B. Frost, 1876 'Of Course He Wants To Vote The Democratic Ticket' (October 1876), Harper's Weekly.jpg
"Of Course He Wants To Vote The Democratic Ticket" by A. B. Frost, 1876
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"Niggers in the White House," Published in Sedalia Sentinel, October 25, 1901

Civil Rights era

1970s–present

  • On November 22, 2015 presidential candidate Donald Trump personally retweeted [20] 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. [21] When asked about the image in an interview with Bill O'Reilly, Trump claimed that the picture came from very credible sources. [20]
  • In August of 2017 after a Neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, VA in which a white supremacist murdered a counter protester Donald Trump addressed the nation stating that there were "fine people on both sides" of the rally. [22] James S. Robbins argued in a USA Today opinion piece that the quote was taken out of context. [23]

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