The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967. It was meant to evoke that event, which could easily be called “fanning the flames.”

> The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967 it was meant to evoke that event

Really? I'm pretty sure it was meant to /rhyme/.

This is the same attempt at plausible deniability of Republican institutional racism since the Nixon Southern Strategy as clearly, undeniably, articulated by its inventor. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...

Trump peddled a racist lie and conspiracy theory for five years, before he was even in politics. Birtherism. And before that, the Central Park Five. And before that the federal lawsuit against him and his dad for discrimination in housing. It's not plausibly deniable. And this is the same thing.

Exactly re: birtherism and Central Park five. Trump's racism is overt. Not secret messages.

"When the looting starts, shooting starts"

Read that above statement, how is it not fanning the flames? That a way a president get to talk to an oppressed black population?

You should not treat black people as synonymous with looters.

Are average HK citizens exposed to more police brutality than minorities and the poor in the US?

Our administration acts like that's the case (especially during the HK protests) but it doesn't ring true.