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naomi24
No - I'm not aware of the potential problem. Just because Trump has said theirs a problem, doesn't mean it's true.
If Gonzalo Curiel has spent his career championing the rights of illegal immigrants, or has a record of handing down very soft sentences to Latino criminals or had publicly voiced opposition to Trump's position on the wall, then I would say - "Yep...conflict of interest."
What Trump is saying is something completely different. He is say that the Judge's racial background is the determining factor on whether the case will get a fair hearing.
You wrote:
[i]No, that isn’t fair at all because Trump isn’t saying he doesn’t trust the judge because the judge has a darker skin – he’s saying that since the judge is of Mexican heritage and is aware of Trump’s negative views on Mexican immigration into the USA, the judge may be biased against him. I simply don’t believe that you don’t understand that.[i]
Do you not know what racism is???
I now see where the problem is.
Okay...this is how is goes:
If you say, "I don't think that Mexicans can do a good job, because of their Mexcian heritage", that's racist.
Please tell me you get that racism isn't about skin tone.
Seriously...that's quite...I really don't know the word to use.
Astonishing.
Yeah...really astonishing.
But now I completely understand where you're coming from.