http://gothamist.com/2016/09/22/trump_ohio_campaign_chair_resigns_a.php

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"Miller dismissed African-American voters in the area, despite the fact that they constitute 16% of Mahoning county’s population, and voter turnout in Ohio was higher among black people than white people in the last two presidential elections. She instead suggested that there was low turnout among black people because, "I don’t think that’s part of the way they’re raised. For us, I mean, that was something we all did in our families, we all voted." Then there were her comments on racial tension as she was growing up in the 1960s: “Growing up as a kid, there was no racism, believe me. We were just all kids going to school...I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected. We never had problems like this ... Now, with the people with the guns, and shooting up neighborhoods, and not being responsible citizens, that’s a big change, and I think that’s the philosophy that Obama has perpetuated on America.""

9/23/2016 8:58:41 AM

I visited my mom last week. She was born in the mid-'50s and grew up in the country. She said that there was never any civil unrest through her childhood or any sense of racial tension she picked up on among her family and the blacks that were a part of their lives.

I totally believe that her family had good relationships with the blacks in their community, and I totally believe that civil rights actions didn't really happen where she lived. But I told her it was ludicrous of her to think there might not be systemic racism because of that, and I said that her experience of those relationships were probably a little bit different than the experiences of the other side.

She's open-minded about, don't want to paint her as some kind of out-of-touch bumpkin. But it's easier than a lot of people think for the past to get whitewashed like that.

9/23/2016 9:07:05 AM

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"Instead, they got a prominent Trump surrogate unabashedly and unashamedly exposing her own ignorance: "If you're black and you haven't been successful in the last 50 years, it's your own fault," Miller said. "You've had every opportunity, it was given to you. You've had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn't have. You had all the advantages and didn't take advantage of it. It's not our fault, certainly.""

We found B4C's mother. Or grandmother.

9/23/2016 9:31:21 AM

I've read some interesting stuff about how we may actually have become less "civil" since the Civil Rights movement in a number of ways and for a number of reasons.

But, for the most part, I think white folks back then just have no clue how deferential and accommodating African Americans had to be.

I mean, of course they got along--one group was following a nuanced set of unwritten rules outlining how to behave for various members of the other group.

9/23/2016 9:47:53 AM

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""If you're black and you haven't been successful in the last 50 years, it's your own fault," Miller said. "You've had every opportunity, it was given to you. You've had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn't have. You had all the advantages and didn't take advantage of it. It's not our fault, certainly."""

She forgot to consider fathers. That's the one thing they don't have.

9/23/2016 9:58:41 AM

Wait, I thought that racism ended in 1968??!! This woman is a liar, and a charlatan.

9/23/2016 10:08:38 AM

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"I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected"

Kinda feels like there needs to be some kind of followup question after that statement

9/24/2016 1:02:16 AM