Yeah, I am not convinced your friend is a good person.
He sounds like a bigot you are making excuses for.

Ohh, he’s part Mexican. Well that doesn’t surprise me. Racism is rampant in the Latino community.

It’s often a thing in M/M relationships too.

I think it may have been on Gawker, but there was a white single mother talking about how she was treated because her son was half black. One issue she had was when she brought a date home (who knew she had a kid), who was shocked/dismayed that the child was mixed race. She reminded him that he knew she had a child,…

the stereotype that white guys have a genetic/social disadvantage compared to black guys when it comes to pleasuring people is infuriating to insecure dudes. the idea that a white man could be found less desirable to partners because of their race is madness to racists. one would even say it is reverse racism, and of…

That is straight up vile racism and sexism. I would carefully weigh this person’s value to you if this is really how they see the world.

Ask yourself why you feel it’s ok to remain friends with this person. This type of thing is why Trump got this far—if you still hang out with this person, you are tacitly accepting his racism.

It’s often a thing in M/M relationships too.

Exactly. Some people here are discounting this but they don’t realize that lots of people want a reason to vote for him without appearing to be racist. They can point to this so called outreach and claim Trump isn’t and therefore they aren’t either. They are looking for a way to make a Trump vote more socially…

I can’t imagine. From my perspective, racism is a dealbreaker. If I woke up White, I’d think I’d still be somewhat worried. Historically, racists are good for using race as a commodity. Class status and racial inclusion are given and taken by and for the dominant class. The mythological monolithic Whites might want…

They don’t like you either, but this is a small gesture that can be made toward hand wringing white people without doing anything besides repeating condescending stereotypes about black people and the evil “inner cities” where the voters he’s catering to have probably never even driven through. If he tried to make a…

Because they’re in denial or completely unaware of their own racism. My own father falls into this camp- he doesn’t like the racist stuff that Trump says, but it’s not enough to make him not vote for him. He just doesn’t think it’s a big deal. White people aren’t faced with racism every day, we don’t think of it…

That sounds true. So are The African Americans now the safer minority to mention? No Muslim new deal? Are The Latinos getting a deal? These fence riders are interested in us, but not them?

The world’s full of people who think they’re not racist who are kind of racist. Some of them are even Democrats/feminists/members of other progressive groups.

Yeah, it does seem like a no-brainer. But, then again, so does just about every one of his supporters.

Eh, I’ve heard many people being interviewed on the news, both nationally and locally, and they seem concerned about the comments he makes. They agree with him on many other things though. I can see how this “outreach” would make them more willing to vote for him. There are plenty of people who proudly embrace racism…

I got that- in theory. But in my reality, I can’t picture anyone who doesn’t embrace his or her racism being on the fence about voting for him. I legit thought being pro-Trump was essentially a way to ‘come out’ as a racist. If you feel that you aren’t racist, how could you stomach the thought of him?

Commentor Busslayer upthread summed it up best. It’s not about black voters, it’s about white voters. Specifically, it is about the white voters who are on the fence about casting their ballot for Trump due to his racism. This gives them the “out” they want. It soothes their nerves when they can say he reached out to…

Real question, not a joke: why is he bothering? His supporters don’t pretend to care about us, he damn sure never has, and he can’t really think any negro outside of Sheriff Selfhating Asskisser’s family will vote for him. Why spend a second on this speech? It’s done. At this point, I envision even Ben Carson will…