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tl;dw- Trump's actions emphasize how African-Americans will never be "legitimate" Americans. He isn't the best speaker; his words are important.

So they guy sees it through his own lens and makes a judgement of victimhood based on presumed prejudices.  If you want to see racism everywhere that is exactly what you will see.  If you presume everyone of a group is racist every action by any member of that group can be construed as being racist in some way.  This is the Al Sharpton modus operandi; if there is a black man and a white man involved it must be racism.   I don't find that particularly powerful.

So they guy sees it through his own lens and makes a judgement of victimhood based on presumed prejudices.  If you want to see racism everywhere that is exactly what you will see.  If you presume everyone of a group is racist every action by any member of that group can be construed as being racist in some way.  This is the Al Sharpton modus operandi; if there is a black man and a white man involved it must be racism.   I don't find that a particularly powerful argument.

What did I say there that was disagreeable? o_0

Yes sometimes things are in fact racism but to assert racism with nothing to back it up except one guy is white and one guy is black or lacks any credibility.

Treating someone differently because of their skin color/ancestral history.  That is racism.  This is not a case of that.

Claims of racism often fall prey to the old fallacy...

I hate all bananas.

Bananas are yellow.

I hate all yellow things.

Now hang on just a minute! Bananas are delicious!!!

You need to have a pattern of systematic behavior before you can judge something to be racist, one incident or occurence does not make for racism.  Though it may be racially motivated you do not have enough information to know one way or another.  A charge of racism is in this case just another form of personal attack unless you are prepared to back it up by showing Trump is a racist and has acted in racist ways in the past.  Presuming racism based on participating individuals race just because racism is hard to see is not a valid argument.

Very good points. As a white male, I don't have unique perspectives, so I would say that based on your argument, I have absolutely no say in calling this racism. And I would agree with that. The person making the video may have a different perspective which makes his point more valid. Perhaps not. I don't know.

Regardless, your points are well taken.

Sooo.... you're saying you hate school buses?

It is not about perspectives and the races of the observers it is about lack of any thing but conjecture about what another's motivations are.  If you are stating your conjecture as fact you need to have some supporting evidence not just "cause I see it that way".  If that is the case then perfectly innocuous gestures can be called  racism if an one participant or an outside observer chooses to perceive it as racism.  Calling someone a racist or an action racism without supporting evidence is never a valid argument; it is a personal attack, of a similar ilk, to that he is accusing Trump of making.

Fixed it for you.