It comes from a column entitled Trump’s Dance With Bigotry by the WaPo’s Eugene Robinson:
Donald Trump plays on racial fears and animosities in an ugly, deliberate and dangerous way. This dance with bigotry goes far beyond his temporary amnesia about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.
Trump speaks as if he considers whiteness the norm and sees people of color as somehow alien and suspect. He is the only major American political figure in many decades to display such an antediluvian worldview so openly. Trump doesn’t tweet dog whistles, he blasts foghorns.
He brags about getting along famously with “the blacks” and “the Hispanics.” How long has it been since anyone in public life used such casually exclusionary language? There are about 40 million African Americans and more than 55 million Hispanic Americans, all of them reduced, by Trump’s use of the definite article, to sidekick status — the “good” ones being, I suppose, a bunch of Sammy Davis Jrs. and Ricky Ricardos.
The Sammy mention is why I posted the picture of him kissing Archie Bunker. Trump is supported by more than a few thoroughly unmodern modern Archie Bunkers, after all. I do, however, think the Donald might prefer having Birmingham Brown from the Charlie Chan movies or the Cisco Kid’s wingman Pancho as his ethnic sidekicks. They were infinitely more comedically subservient than Sammy or Ricky. Plus, Lucy had much better hair than the Insult Comedian. Frank, sadly, did not.
Speaking of the Cisco Kid, I now have an earworm thanks to Gene Robinson. At least it’s a good one:
“Dance” with bigotry? Only if it’s the Lambada (the forbidden dance of love). Based on the media coverage as well as direct comments by Les Moonves of CBS, the major media seem just fine with the Trump campaign, and its appeal to the worst instincts of a lot of segments of society. I guess they all figure that someone somewhere along the line will derail the Trump campaign, but in the meantime, they’ll milk it for all the viewers they can get.
Not exactly the stuff of Edward R. Murrow or even Walter Cronkite. A lot of people are going to suffer while this nonsense goes on.
pretty sure its the hokey pokey.
I was trying mightily not to think about body parts being shaken all about by the Republican candidates.