Unfortunately, the time for that statement was Saturday afternoon when the rest of the civilized world spoke up. Instead, on that day, Trump delivered a tepid, mealy mouthed response so inadequate that it set off an uproar around the nation. The fact is that Trump’s shocking reluctance to speak out against racism is part of a pattern. A Trump statement in January on International Holocaust Remembrance Day failed to mention the racism that made Jews overwhelmingly Hitler’s victims. Trump, by his laggard actions and disinterest, doesn’t seem to know the cancer is there, or even that it is an illness.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 14, 2017 20:37 UTC