The Bowerbird Writes

Lessons from Trump’s racist tweets

By JOHAN JAAFFAR

PRESIDENT Donald Trump singled out four coloured members of the United States House of Represent­atives in his recent tweets.

He told them to “help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came from”.

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Johan Jaaffar

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