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    For black Americans, Trump's 'shithole' comment was an insult to their histories

    by Matt Pearce and Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times Jan 13, 2018 3 minutes

    ATLANTA - The president's question was this: "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?"

    Technically - in its own crass way - it was a policy question. Specifically, President Donald Trump was asking why the U.S. should accept immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African nations instead of immigrants from wealthy Norway, according to reports of the president's remarks to congressional lawmakers at a Thursday meeting.

    Yet for many black Americans, the president's remarks, as so many times in the past, seemed to draw a bull's-eye on their skin color.

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