Jorge Ramos is an award winning journalist and longtime anchor on Univision.  You may remember he was thrown out of a Trump  conference by security guards because he didn't stop asking a question Trump didn't like.  ("Go back to Univision!" Trump shouted at Ramos.)

In an NPR interview, Ramos talked about his new book: Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era: “There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country....I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many. But that’s how it is."

"They're bringing...rapists..." comment by Trump is one of many that fan racist attitudes--reminiscent of the stereotypes about "colored people" in the Jim Crow era.

In the South of the early 20s and 30s, a black man had only "to look at a while woman" to lose his life.   The rallying cry was "rape."  Yet studies show that a white woman was more likely to get struck by lighting than to be raped by a black man in those days.

Painting any group with a wide brush is the stereotyper's best tool for pitting people against people, saying "They are all like this," then trivializing in tone and words the exceptions, as Trump did in a dismissive tag line after his racist comment: "There may even be some good people, I don't know..."

Spike Lee's Four Little Girls shows some diabolically racist white people, but also some compassionate ones.  Not all white people were racists.  But Bull Conner, Bob Chambliss and George Wallace couldn't have inflicted their well-known abuse without plenty who cheered them on or looked the other way.

Denise McNair's father (Denise was one of the four girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham bombing) said it best:

"A Bull Conner couldn't exist without a nod from the status quo people--you know, the big boys in any town.  No Bull Conner could exist without them.  He may be the person who actually does the talking, but believe me, the Bull Conners have the blessing of somebody else."