No more dog whistles, the president has gone flat out public as a racist. When asked about it a day later he said, really, he couldn't care less what people called it, lots of people agree with him. That, sadly, we have seen to be true.
Why am I so outraged? Hard to say, there are so many potential sources of discomfort and disquiet. This is somehow the tipping point for me to start seriously ranting. There are literally hundreds of things that the current president has done that are despicable, but telling women of color that they should "go back where they came from" is the very definition of racism. As MLK said, “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Our racist president is trying to squash these women, but he is causing the rest of us to rise up.
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