Donald Trump’s Atlantic City

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/opinion/donald-trumps-atlantic-city.html

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To the Editor:

I am a small-business owner with a shop in Atlantic City and a Pakistani-born immigrant. Our city, one to which Donald Trump is accustomed, comprises shop owners and customers of all backgrounds.

Not unlike much of our country, Atlantic City is fueled by the labor and economic contributions of immigrants. Mr. Trump’s hateful rhetoric directed at immigrants, refugees and Muslims is not just deplorable; it’s also bad for business.

How can we make someone like Donald Trump president when he insults and demeans my neighbors on Main Street and more than half the customers who come through my door? A man who characterizes Mexicans as rapists and drug dealers, and favors profiling Muslims. A man who calls African-American neighborhoods war zones and engages in public body-shaming of women.

His racism, sexism, lack of decorum and naïveté would hurt America and jeopardize all that we’ve built. We must reject the race baiting, fear-mongering and dog whistling of the Trump campaign and vote with our conscience for a candidate who embraces diversity and exhibits tact.

SYED ALI

Atlantic City