““People frequently lie—to themselves and to others. In 2008, Americans told surveys that they no longer cared about race. Eight years later, they elected as president Donald J. Trump, a man who retweeted a false claim that black people are responsible for the majority of murders of white Americans, defended his supporters for roughing up a Black Lives Matters protester at one of his rallies, and hesitated in repudiating support from a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The same hidden racism that hurt Barack Obama helped Donald Trump.””
![“[Donald Trump] has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted, he persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3df/hillary-clinton-51_activity_donald-trump-has-really-started-his-poli_3107298.jpg)
![“During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.” quote by Anderson Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d80/anderson-cooper-2401_african-american_during-the-campaign-donald-trump-talked_1576366.jpg)
![“We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.” quote by John Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/109/john-lewis-1310_african-american_we-all-remember-that-donald-trump-was-on_1166854.jpg)
![“[Donald Trump] has a long record of engaging in racist behavior.” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b4/hillary-clinton-51_behavior_donald-trump-has-a-long-record-of-engagi_2182722.jpg)
