Current Events > Trump nominee referred to black leaders as "race traders"

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/politics/kfile-sam-clovis-blog-posts/index.html

Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist, maintained a now-defunct blog for years in which he accused progressives of "enslaving" minorities, called black leaders "race traders," and labeled former President Barack Obama a "Maoist" with "communist" roots.

Clovis, a long-time Iowa political activist and former economics professor, wrote the blog posts on the now-deleted website for his radio show "Impact with Clovis," which aired for several years on Sioux City KSCJ. Copies of the show are not available online, but the blog is archived on The Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Most of the available blog posts are from 2011 and 2012.
Trump's nomination of Clovis, a fervent supporter of Trump during the presidential campaign, has drawn criticism from Senate Democrats and climate activists, who have attacked his lack of scientific credentials and skepticism of climate science.
Clovis is currently serving as the senior White House adviser to the USDA, but as his old blog posts highlight, his background is strongly rooted in the politics of conservative talk radio. His nomination requires Senate confirmation.
Clovis did not respond to an email from CNN's KFile requesting comment. A spokesperson for the USDA said, "Dr. Clovis is a proud conservative and a proud American. All of his reporting either on the air or in writing over the course of his career has been based on solid research and data. He is after all an academic."
A spokesperson for the White House did not return a request for comment.
In his writings, Clovis directed most of his ire at then-President Obama and the progressive movement.
In a post from September 2011, Clovis wrote in reference to Obama, "He was brought up by socialists to be a socialist. His associations were socialists or worse, criminal dissidents who were bent on overthrowing the government of the United States. He has no experience at anything other than race baiting and race trading as a community organizer."
The month before, Clovis said the 2012 Republican primary candidates needed to call out progressives for what they were — "liars, race traders and race 'traitors.'"
At times, Clovis adopted a conspiratorial tone in his blog postings, openly pondering whether the Obama Administration would place conservative activists on a kill list that included terrorists like Anwar al-Awlaki and accusing Obama-era czars of using taxpayer money to buy the support of academics who would claim science was settled.
In one blog post in April 2011, Clovis contrasted the successful recovery efforts following the 2008 floods in Iowa with the chaos in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, attributing the difference to Iowa's culture "focused on family, community and the primacy of faith in life."

Second time today there's been a story about a Trump guy referring to opponents as Maoists.
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I bet he does science real good though.
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Seems as qualified as his other nominees.
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What is a race trader? I thought that was a typo at first.

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

He's a moron, and I'm genuinely not trying to deflect or diminish what he said, but I'm sure there's already thousands of people not seeing the irony, calling him an uncle Tom anyways. I can't really say I give 2 fucks on this one.

Uncle Tom? He's white.

Yeah I hadn't clicked the link, just read OP.
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What the fuck is a race trader?
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tremain07 posted...

What the fuck is a race trader?

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It shouldn't be real life, but it is.
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Kaname_Madoka posted...

tremain07 posted...

What the fuck is a race trader?

Normally I would assume he's misspelling "race traitor" but
1. that's, uh, not usually a term white people level at black people, much less as a criticism
2. He used it in the same sentence as "race traitor!"

My guess is, the more common term for what he's talking about would be "race hustler."
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