Posted on 07/16/2019 8:02:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When President Trump tweeted on Sunday that "'Progressive' Democratic Congresswomen" an apparent reference to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, who are all women of color should "go back" to their countries, the backlash was swift. It also sparked another conversation: What makes something racist?
Ibram Kendi, a professor and director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, joined "CBS This Morning" to address that question from a historical perspective and discuss whether racist actions or words make someone a racist.
Kendi explained the important historical context behind telling a person of color to go back to where they came from.
"In the 19th century, there were many, many reformers, racial reformers who thought the way to solve the race problem, the Negro problem, was to essentially send back all free blacks [to Africa]. And that started with Thomas Jefferson, his Notes to the State of Virginia which was published in 1787, and went up to Abraham Lincoln," Kendi said.
He also pointed out that this language is aimed almost exclusively at people of color because America is assumed to be a place for white people. "So where would they go back to? But people of color, it's assumed that this is not their country," Kendi said.
A common refrain among Trump supporters, whenever he sets off a furor with an early-morning tweetstorm, is that he's just inappropriate not racist. There's a difference, they say. And Mr. Trump asserted in a tweet, "I don't have a Racist bone in my body!"
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
"First, I'd say there's no such thing as not racist. There's racist and anti-racist," Kendi said. "Racist ideas suggest that there's something wrong or right, superior or inferior about a particular group. It suggests there's something inherently normal about white Americans, that Americans are white and whites are Americans. And his idea suggests that somehow people of color are not American, and that's deeply racist."
What racist tweets?
No.
Enough.
Some historian..
Journalism and African American Studies from Florida A&M in 2004, and earned his doctorate in African American Studies in 2010 from Temple University.
Garbage in - Garbage out
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M O R O N....
Is that “racist” enough for ya?
Ain’t Kendi Kandoodoo cool?
If you need some historian to explain why something is racist, it’s probably not racist.
>>should “go back” to their countries, the backlash was swift. It also sparked another conversation: What makes something racist?
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3721374/posts
the day twitter exploded | covington catholic controversy - students cleared by new video...
Citizen Free Press ^
1/20/2019
New Video Exonerates Covington Catholic Students
Heres how the controversy (the biggest so far of 2019) was described by someone on Twitter:
A group of students wearing MAGA hats were chanting their high school chant so this man comes over with his drum and walks over to them. He gets in one students face and bangs him drum. It was recorded and has turned into white students harass Native American banging his drum when all the kid is did was stand there while this man went looking for trouble. The left has doxxed the student and are calling for him to be expelled. Of course they are sending him very tolerant death threats. Thats the gist of it.
Notice at 1:39 the students are told You white people, go back to Europe where you came from.
2:30 Student asks, What did we do? Native American: Youre being white. Thats all you need to do.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3722331/posts
Rep. Ilhan Omar deletes tweet attacking Covington students, after backlash
Fox News ^ | Jan 23, 2019 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has apparently deleted an overnight tweet going after Covington Catholic students anew, after facing a social media backlash for her comments.
She wrote: “The boys were protesting a woman’s right to choose & yelled ‘it’s not rape if you enjoy it’ ... They were taunting 5 Black men before they surrounded Phillips and led racist chants ... Sandmann’s family hired a right wing PR firm to write his non-apology.”
Racist beyotch who supported a racist man who said to these boys “Go back to Europe” and “being white is enough (reason)”
It took anti-racist education indoctrination to get me woke.
Time to bring back dueling. There appears to be no remedy for libel and slander these days.
I thought the term “colored person” was a no-no these days. That it’s racist. But you can call them a “person of color” instead? It’s the same thing!
Yea ok. This is not a historian. This is a BLM militant with a destroy America agenda who happens to be wearing a suit.
Bwahahahahahaha! And this person is, “anti racist”?
>the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University
Sounds like valuable work
Black people cannot be racist. They don’t have the power structure to be racist. Not even when they controlled the White House and called protesters “teabaggers” and said Republicans were “suckin’ on a slurpee” and “wee weed up”.
How queer, the line from Obama’s book on tape “There are white people and then there are ignorant motherfu**ers like yourself” isn’t returning as an easy to find match on yourube.
This so called historian does not even bother to check recent history as seen from his misquoting what Trump said and attributing quotes that he never said.
FROM THE ARTICLE:
Trump has specifically criticized racial groups of people,” he said. “When he said that Mexicans are rapists. When he said that a trait of blacks is laziness. This is a condemnation of a racial group of people. That is effectively racism.”
REPONSE:
1) MEXICANS ARE RAPISTS.
Here is the exact quote:
“When Mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best,” Trump said. “Theyre not sending you. Theyre not sending you. Theyre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyre bringing those problems with us. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
2) BLACKS ARE LAZY
SNOPES has investigated this claim and has declared it FALSE.
See here:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-africans-lazy-stealing/
Thats some real word judo..
Idiot...
His name says all.
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