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President Donald Trump says he wore a mask and goggles out of view of reporters while he was touring a Ford plant in Michigan. (May 21) AP Domestic

President Donald Trump took heat on social media for praising the "good bloodlines" of Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Ford, who had a history of promoting anti-Semitic views.

"Thecompany foundedbya man named Henry Ford good bloodlines, good bloodlines if you believe in that stuff.You got good blood," Trump said Thursday during a tour of a Ford plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

"Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and one of America's staunchest proponents of eugenics. The President should apologize," Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote on Twitterin response to a reporter's post about Trump's remarks.

Former White House ethics chief Walter Shaub denounced Trump's comments as "gaslit dog whistling" as the term bloodlines is often used in eugenics.

Ford published a set of anti-Semitic pamphlets called, "The International Jew."He alsospread conspiracy theories through his newspaper the Dearborn Independent.

The Henry Ford museum describes how Ford "saw Jews present in everything that he viewed as modern and distasteful" including the First World War, jazz, and short skirts. Ford used the network of Ford dealerships across the country to distribute the Dearborn Independent, building the newspaper to a circulation of 900,000 in 1926.

Ford apologized for the articles and closed the newspaper in 1927 after being sued for defamation byattorney Aaron Sapiro, a target of anti-Semitic attacks bythe Dearborn Independent.

Ford, however, accepted an award, the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, from Nazi Germany in 1938.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

More: Ford 'encouraged' Trump to wear mask during factory tour, but it came off for the cameras

William Clay Ford Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Co. and the great-grandson of Henry Ford, had attended the tour and had urged Trump to wear a mask during his visit.

"Bill Ford encouraged President Trump to wear a mask when he arrived," the company said in the statement. "He wore a mask during a private viewing of three Ford GTs from over the years.The President later removed the mask for the remainder of the visit."

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We can all agree that Joe Biden made a horrifying error probably his worst, hardly his first when he said any black voters who are undecided between himself and President Trump aint black.

The former vice president and soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee quickly apologized. Biden said he didnt mean to take black votes for granted or suggest anyones political choices should be dictated by their ethnicity.

Major figures in his own party, black and white, rallied around him. The Trump campaign turned the gaffe to its advantage, accusing Biden and the Democrats of racism.

U.S. Rep. Val Demings of Orlando, one of the black women among Bidens vice-presidential prospects, expressed surprise at the nerve and gall of Trump whipping out the ol race card on anyone. Theres a cliche in politics about being called ugly by a toad.

But as the campaign heats up in the summer, it would be good to consider what we call a gaffe as part of the political landscape. The media have to report them, although Trump will claim his two-fisted style is purposely twisted to sound offensive while the media downplay Biden blunders.

Whether in a presidential race or a little city commission contest, we ought to consider the source. Did the speaker make an unfortunate slip, an oafish attempt at humor, or to be casual and down-home with an audience? Or does an offensive remark fit well with a lifetime of insensitivity, political cynicism, or racial, sexist or religious bigotry.

When George Wallace promised segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever in 1963, it wasnt a gaffe. It was how he ran his campaign and wanted to govern. When Spiro Agnew showed his boorish insensitivity in 1968, he was showing who he really was.

But when Jimmy Carter used the term ethnic purity in 1976, he wasnt making some coded appeal to eugenics, he just made a really bad choice of words. In a debate that year, President Ford said there was no soviet domination of Eastern Europe; he meant to say the people of Poland dont accept Kremlin control, but in an instant a president put himself on the level of a former Georgia governor in foreign affairs.

Sometimes, a word choice thats not offensive that wouldnt mean anything for some other candidate might bite a candidate like Biden. During debates last year, he referred to parents honing childrens learning by, among other things, turning on the record player at home.

Record player? Harmless in itself, his word choice re-enforced questions that maybe the 77-year-old candidate is living in an episode of Happy Days.

More important for Biden, he referred to then-Sen. Barack Obama as clean and articulate in 2008. Thats not cool, but a review of Bidens 50-year record on social justice earns him some indulgence.

Thats what we should look at when candidates misspeak -- what theyve stood for throughout their careers. On the campaign trail, speaking casually or doing interviews, candidates cant gaffe things up too badly they just use a simple three-step process for deciding whether to say something flippant about race:

1.Consider how supporters will react.

2.Consider how opponents will react.

3.Then dont.

Bill Cotterell is a retired Tallahassee Democrat capitol reporter.

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Will 2020 be the year the tin foil hats are vindicated?

A global coup is unfolding before our very eyes

Will 2020 be the year of the global communist takeover that the tin foil hats have been warning of? The blueprint for world domination is detailed in the UNs Agenda 21 and has four main objectives.

Depopulation: Greatly reduce world population to a more sustainable number and restrict human reproduction.

Globalization: Global militarized police state to enforce political, economic, environmental and medical totalitarianism.

Digitization: Eliminate cash; implement a global digital currency and Universal Basic Income using implantable microchips and a 5G-control grid.

De-carbonization: Eliminate fossil fuels, return rural land to nature by concentrating populations in smart cities. Ban travel, farming and property ownership.

The 120-ton granite monument known as the Georgia Guidestones is inscribed with guidelines for a new age of reason that echoes the same philosophies as those behind Agenda 21. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 and Guide reproduction wisely are the main principles of eugenics, which promotes selective breeding of the nobility and forced abortions and sterilization of the working class. Be not a cancer on the earth Leave room for nature is the Malthusian philosophy that inspired the eugenics movement in the late 1800s; the idea that famines, plagues, wars and birth control are necessary to prevent overpopulation from depleting global resources.

Remember Greta and the Green New Deal? Again we see the globalization, de-carbonization and depopulation themes of Agenda 21. Too bad that racist Trump with his conspiracy theories ruined all of that. But then, just in time to squash Trumps re-election, along comes Bill Gates and The New World Normal to get Agenda 21 back on track.

While the world is under military martial law with travel bans in place, 5G is rolled out, the economy collapses, small business and the middle class are decimated and many become dependent on government handouts. We must learn to work, school, shop and socialize online. Because handling cash spreads the virus, we will need digital currency and an implant to use it.

But dont worry, Bill Gates has been preparing for this pandemic for ages. He already has plans to inject the entire world population with his quantum dot digital tattoos, so he will know whos taken his vaccine. If you refuse, well, youll just be quarantined. Forever. Coincidently, the Book of Revelations warns of a time when the Antichrist forces every man, woman and child to take the mark of the beast and without it no one shall buy or sell.

Now, those of us who have done our homework have tried to warn about the globalist agenda and their deceptive modus operandi, only to be insulted and ridiculed for our efforts. But now that the globalist wolves have thrown off their sheeps clothing and its time to for us to say, we told you so, will the sheep still deny the global coup unfolding before our very eyes?

David Work

Lake Cowichan

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Who among us has the divine right to decide who lives or who dies? Who has the moral authority to determine what is good, fair, or just for our nation? Who has the ultimate choice to privatize the land, the people, and the natural resources for private gain? Since 1886, corporate capitalist, our new world pirates, claim they do.

After seizing power over our Constitutional mandates, corporate capitalist established a new story and made it legal. Negative narratives, such as Darwins 1887 eugenics theory survival of the fittest and Keynesians post war economics, used legalized fiction to usurp the peoples authority. For over a century, our Constitutional rights have been ignored and suppressed while fear and hate are glorified and normalized. The colonial mind set continues to shape todays political choices with party line rhetoric and inhumane social abuses.

Consequently, Americas history is shadowed with personal prejudice, social bigotry, and corporate greed. The notion that federal and state taxes support education and programs that promote the general welfare, has proven to be false. Truth is, we are no more than economic fodder for those who unjustly declare elite status over social choices and economic decisions.

Since humanitys mythical fall from grace, our collective task has been to wake up, dispel the toxic levels of fear and dis-information, and reclaim our personal and social power. Instead of becoming mindless zombies, out of sync and mis-aligned with a free and just society, we can cultivate our divine right to live a moral humane life. Evidence shows without freedom to share our unique and authentic existence with honor, respect and responsibility, we lose our mind at the gates of hell. By choosing to live and let live, we cultivate equanimity beyond any nefarious policy or artificial inhibitors. That future is our ultimate choice.

Gloria Cooper

Mount Shasta

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