By Will Bunch, STAFF COLUMNIST @will_bunch | bunchw@phillynews.com |It’s kind of a cliché to say that sometimes you can see a disaster coming from miles and miles away. But that was the reality with Hurricane Maria last month, when the National Hurricane Center issued 17 consecutive forecasts that the deadly major hurricane was going to make a direct hit on the densely populated island of Puerto Rico and the 3.4 million American citizens who live there. It didn’t seem possible, but the White House response — both logistically and morally — to the growing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands has been even worse than many of us dared to imagine. And it’s been fueled by something else that America saw coming from miles and miles away, from that day in June 2015 when the short-fingered vulgarian descended an escalator in Trump Tower to announce his divisive candidacy — and that is the racism of Donald Trump. Read more of this articleSource: The Inquirer(Visited 16 times, 16 visits today)Commentscomments

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