Clemson Prof: Trump Endorsing a ‘Lynching Kind of Rhetoric’

COSTELLO: “Lauren, tell me — you know, I’m sure you heard what happened in Chicago over the weekend, right, where, you know, some violence broke out between Bernie Sanders supporters and Trump supporters. When you were watching that, what went through your mind?” 
UNDERWOOD: “It’s just — it’s crazy to me to see how just — we’re also at the primary levels and there’s so much violence breaking out from tensions between the candidates and it’s kind of scary to see how angry people are getting over this and where they’re actually like hurting each other and trying to kill each other over it.” 
COSTELLO: “So, Stephanie, do you blame Bernie Sanders supporters for going to this Trump rally at all and inciting this? What would you say to them?” 
SUBOCH: “I would just say that, you know, good job. I don’t think that it’s like their fault that this happened. I think that a lot of it has to do with Trump’s message because he kind of like promotes violence. So —“
COSTELLO: “And, Lauren, would you go to another Trump rally?” 
UNDERWOOD: “I don’t think I would just because the — how intimidating it was and how everyone was like screaming at me. And I think I saw what I needed to see to like get an understanding of what it was like. So I don’t think I would want to go back, no.” 
COSTELLO: “How about you, professor?” 
KUMANYIKA: “Absolutely, I will go. I encourage everyone to go. We have to be organized in trying to exercise our democratic rights to peacefully protest this kind of violent rhetoric, the violent policies. And let me just be clear. Donald Trump knows how to make a point when he wants to make it. But the man — the young man who was punched by someone in North Carolina, Donald Trump defended that person. And if you listen to the last thing that man said, he said on camera that the next time we might kill that young man. This is a lynching kind of rhetoric and Donald Trump is endorsing it.” 
COSTELLO: “All right, I have to leave it there. Chenjerai Kumanyika, Stephanie Suboch and Lauren Underwood, thanks to all of you.”