Just a heads up, there's about to be some foul language in this episode.

Why don't you go back to where you came from?

I've heard that one a few times. It's so uninspired, it's so played, and so racist.

But as a journalist, I've been trained to be very wary when it comes to using the R word racist

in my stories. And this is something we've discussed at length in our January of 2018 episode on

the Code Switch podcast called The R word in the Age of Trump. Let's listen to some of it.

I'm Cat Chow, and I want to play you a voicemail. I got from a man named

of Perrin Lam. Hi, Miss Chow. I heard your reporting on President Trump's remarks, and it was

very bad reporting. A few weeks ago, I got this email from my editor asking for a short news piece

about Trump's language during a bipartisan oval office meeting about immigration. You know exactly

what I'm talking about. Shit hole gate. Also known as that time, the president of the United States,

Donald Trump allegedly called Haiti and some African nations shittles or shithouses. My assignment

was to talk about how this fits in with all those other comments he's made about people of color

and immigrants. Cool. Lots to choose from. And Pierce Cat Chow reports, this was one of many

instances of the president making racially charged remarks. This isn't the first time Trump has made

denigrating remarks about people of color and immigrants. According to news reports last year,

Trump described Haitian immigrants as having AIDS and said that if the US accepted Nigerian immigrants,

they wouldn't quote go back to their huts. And just months ago, after multiple hurricanes

tore through Puerto Rico, leaving many there in need of aid, Trump insinuated they were lazy. He

tweeted that Puerto Ricans want everything to be done for them. In 2015, one calling for a US

Mexico border wall, Trump described Mexicans as rapists. The president tweeted that he never

said anything to a rockatory about Haitians in Thursday's meeting. Cat Chow and Pierre News.

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