Miserly Billionare Trump Donated Nothing to Katrina and 9/11 Victims [MORE] 

The drip-drip-drip of "birther" propaganda is part of a general, persistent assault on the legitimacy of immigrants and non-whites in American culture. Lurking behind the rhetoric of "I want my country back" is a simple refusal to recognize the citizenship, or even the humanity, of anyone but white males.[MORE] 

Trump's shows boast a solid African-American viewership and black cast members [and a recent NBC/WSJ poll found, according to NBC's Domenico Montanaro, that the among the groups that views him most positively is African-Americans], some of whom he's likely alienating. "As a people, we celebrated his business acumen; purchased his books and anything else with the Trump name we could get our hands on," Goldie Taylor wrote on The Grio. (the show is dogshit -BW). 

From [HERE] Donald Trump's strategy of spurring interest in his presidential campaign by flirting with discredited theories about President Barack Obama's birthplace is stirring a growing backlash among prominent African-Americans who believe Trump is making a coded racial appeal.

Trump's confrontational appearances had already begun to raise questions about whether his political flirtation was, as widely assumed, a stunt aimed at raising his profile and ratings, and his willingness to alienate a share of the television audience -- and to drag his cautious corporate employers into the incendiary politics of race -- have spurred speculation that he has either badly miscalculated or is serious about running for president.

"There's a lot of people that I've talked to [who] instinctively think that he's using the issue as a proxy for race," Urban League President Marc Morial, the former New Orleans mayor, told POLITICO. "I don't know if it has resonance in the Republican Party but I certainly think it has resonance in certain far right elements of the American public."