A black Los Angeles Times columnist says GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is "not a Republican problem," but a "white-people problem" — and insists white Americans must work to expel the billionaire developer from the race for the White House.
"In 2016, white people must take responsibility for Donald Trump,"
Dexter Thomas writes in a column published Wednesday.
Thomas calls the outspoken real-estate tycoon and former TV star "a particularly embarrassing figure because of whom he purports to represent."
"His rhetoric might appeal most to white nationalists, including former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, but his target is not the fringes," Thomas writes.
"Instead, as Duke says, Trump's campaign is an appeal to 'the values and interests of the European-American majority.'
"White people should feel insulted by this. They should feel ashamed — as white people — of Donald Trump. Whites need to stand up and say that they will not allow Trump to hijack their culture, or to conduct his racist politics in their name."
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