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Anti-racism protests in United States, very selective: Commentator

More than a thousand protesters demonstrate against President-elect Donald Trump at Thomas Paine Plaza November 19, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by AFP)

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in cities across the United States to express their outrage at US President-elect Donald Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric. The demonstrators said protests will persist unless Trump abandons his "war" on immigrants and other minorities.

An author and commentator believes the anti-racism protests in the United States are “very selective,” adding that it seems like the “educated white bourgeoisieis offended by Donald Trump’s appointments.

“The Trump protests are against the kind of overt white nationalistic rhetoric that comes from a lot of the people that Trump has appointed, Jeff Sessions in particular," John Steppling told Press TV.  

“But it is curious that the very people who are protesting never had a problem with US bombing of Yemen, support of Israeli war crimes, sanctions against Iraq, [and] the orchestrated coup coming from [US President Barack] Obama and [Democrat candidate] Hillary Clinton, [as] they put a right-wing administration in power in Honduras and on and on and on, there was complete indifference to any of this,” he added.

The commentator further stated that the outrage is also “strangely selective” because there is no mention of the mass incarceration of over two million people in the United States, most of them are black.  

Trump’s campaign has been hit with many controversies since its inception in early 2015, but he still managed to stun the world by defeating the heavily-favored Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton, in the November 8 election.

Since then, many protests have been held across the US and several demonstrators have been arrested.


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